The riveting account of Nvidia the tech company that has exploded in value for its artificial
intelligence computing hardware and Jensen Huang Nvidia’s charismatic uncompromising CEO
In June of 2024 spurred by the frenzy of investment following the launch of ChatGPT and
thirty-one years after its founding in a Denny’s restaurant Nvidia became the most-valuable
corporation on Earth. In The Thinking Machine acclaimed journalist Stephen Witt recounts the
unlikely story of how a manufacturer of video game components shocked Silicon Valley by
conquering the market for AI hardware and in the process re-invented the computer. Essential
to Nvidia’s meteoric success is its visionary CEO Jensen Huang who more than a decade ago on
the basis of a few promising scientific results bet his entire company on AI. Through
unprecedented access to Huang his friends his investors and his employees Witt documents
for the first time the company’s epic rise and its iconoclastic CEO who emerges as a
compelling single-minded and ferocious leader and now one of Silicon Valley’s most
influential figures. The Thinking Machine is the story of how Nvidia evolved from providing
components for circuit boards to supplying hundred-million dollar supercomputers. It is the
story of a determined entrepreneur who defied Wall Street to push his radical vision for
computing in the process becoming one of the wealthiest men alive. It is the story of a
revolution in computer architecture and the small group of renegade engineers who made it
happen. And it’s the story of our awesome and terrifying AI future which Huang has billed as
the “next industrial revolution ” as a new kind of microchip unlocks hyper-realistic avatars
autonomous robots self-driving cars and new movies art and books generated on command.
