The riveting account of Nvidia, the tech company that has exploded invalue for its artificial intelligence computing hardware, and JensenHuang, Nvidia’s charismatic, uncompromising CEO.In June of 2024, spurred by the frenzy of investment following thelaunch of ChatGPT, and thirty-one years after its founding in a Denny’srestaurant, Nvidia became the most-valuable corporation on Earth. In TheThinking Machine, acclaimed journalist Stephen Witt recounts the unlikely story of how a manufacturer of video game components shockedSilicon Valley by conquering the market for AI hardware, and in theprocess re-invented the computer.Essential to Nvidia’s meteoric success is its visionary CEO JensenHuang, who more than a decade ago, on the basis of a few promisingscientific results, bet his entire company on AI. Through unprecedentedaccess to Huang, his friends, his investors, and his employees, Wittdocuments for the first time the company’s epic rise and itsiconoclastic CEO, who emerges as a compelling, single-minded, andferocious leader, and now one of Silicon Valley’s most influentialfigures.The Thinking Machine is the story of how Nvidia evolved from providingcomponents for circuit boards to supplying hundred-million dollarsupercomputers. It is the story of a determined entrepreneur who defiedWall Street to push his radical vision for computing, in the processbecoming one of the wealthiest men alive. It is the story of arevolution in computer architecture, and the small group of renegadeengineers who made it happen. And it’s the story of our awesome andterrifying AI future, which Huang has billed as the 'next industrialrevolution', as a new kind of microchip unlocks hyper-realistic avatars,autonomous robots, self-driving cars, and new movies, art, and books,generated on command.
