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Grand Theft Auto V hits 210M units, Red Dead 70M shortly before GTA VI’s debut

Take-Two Interactive today revealed more about the sales figures behind its most popular titles, Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2. , the two games have now sold 210 million and 70 million units respectively. That means Grand Theft Auto V sold five million units since the last quarter and Red Dead 2 sold three million units.

GTA V’s sales are largely consistent over the last several quarters — the title sold five million units over the previous quarter as well. RDR2 has actually upped its sales, having sold only two million units over the previous quarter.

Take-Two also noted Grand Theft Auto Online’s performance during the quarter with its holiday upgrade, growing by 10%. Red Dead Redemption 2 is “currently enjoying its highest level of concurrent players on Steam” and Red Dead Online also had its own holiday bonuses with the launch of the Halloween pass.

It’s been just over a year since the official announcement of Grand Theft Auto VI, which is still set for a fall 2025 launch date — Take-Two’s research reiterates the date alongside all of its other releases for the upcoming year. Despite the lead time, it doesn’t not appear that the announcement of a sequel has caused a drop-off in sales for GTA V.

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Last Friday, a unified team from Stanford University and the University of Washington presented that they had trained a math and coding-focused large language model that performs as well as OpenAI’s o1 and DeepSeek’s R1 reasoning models. It cost just $50 in cloud compute credits to build. The team reportedly used an off-the-shelf base model, then distilled Google’s Gemini [website] Flash Thinking Experimental model into it. The process of distilling AIs involves pulling the relevant information to complete a specific task from a larger AI model and transferring it to a smaller one.

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Hugging Face’s model subsequently notched a 55% accuracy on the General AI Assistants (GAIA) benchmark, which is used to test the capacities of agentic AI systems. By comparison, OpenAI’s Deep Research scored between 67 – 73% accuracy, depending on the response methodologies. Granted, the 24-hour model doesn’t perform quite as well as OpenAI’s offering, but it also didn’t take billions of dollars and the energy generation capacity of a mid-sized European nation to train.

These efforts follow news from January that a team out of University of California, Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab managed to train their Sky T1 reasoning model for around $450 in cloud compute credits. The team’s Sky-T1-32B-Preview model proved the equal of early o1-preview reasoning model release. As more of these open-source competitors to OpenAI’s industry dominance emerge, their mere existence calls into question whether the enterprise’s plan of spending half a trillion dollars to build AI data centers and energy production facilities is really the answer.

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