The riveting investigative 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 March 2024 following the revelation that ChatGPT had trained on
Nvidia's microchips and twenty-one years after its founding in a Denny's restaurant Nvidia
became the third 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 establishing a monopoly on 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 selling cheap aftermarket circuit boards to hundred-million-dollar room-sized
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
about 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.
