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Wouldn't be better from business perspective to sell subscription for the game that will enable realistic AI behaviour by offloading LLM functions to the cloud? It will provide technical excuse for subscription, since it's not realistic to expect that players will have high-end systems that can run LLMs when also running that open world game with stunning graphics.

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There are 2 problems to that.

First seeing how much it costs OpenAI to run their infrastructure, that rockstar will have a one time payment for the game and not a subscription from the players, and that you will have maybe 50-100 query per hour per player, it would not be feasible economically.

Second even if it was, that mean that the whole game depends on an internet connection and a backend that will need to be here forever. 10 years later they cut the backend you can’t play the game anymore.

GTA 5 sold 190 million copies and ChatGPT has 180 million users, I think Rockstar would run into problems procuring the number of cloud GPUs that could actually handle something like that.

Rockstar can rent from Azure just like OpenAI I guess. Buy capacity that matches the actual paid demand.

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