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Renaissance Technologies bought 1 million GameStop shares last quarter.
  • A top hedge fund built a GameStop stake from scratch last quarter ahead of the meme stock's surge.
  • Renaissance Technologies' 1 million shares were briefly worth $65 million at Tuesday's high.
  • RenTech, founded by the late Jim Simons, also boosted its AMC bet and pared Tesla and Nvidia.

A world-beating hedge fund revealed it built a GameStop stake from scratch last quarter, making it a potential winner from the meme stock's explosive leap this week.