The full-circle take: GTA sold the GPUs that built CUDA, and now AI writes GTA missions
theteknosaur · x · 2026-10-21
A viral tweet traces a fun historical loop: Rockstar sold GTA games, kids begged for GPUs to run San Andreas, NVIDIA got rich, used that money to build CUDA, AlexNet trained on two GTX 580s, and everything since is downstream — and now AI models write GTA missions. "The loop is closed: AI owes Rockstar its entire existence."
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