The Thinking Machine
Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
Will be published approx. on 10. April 2025
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-84792-827-6 (ISBN)
Description
** SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 **
AI tech giant Nvidia is the world's first $5-trillion company.
It has shaped life as we know it.
This is the inside story of the company that is inventing the future and its charismatic CEO Jensen Huang.
'Gripping and brilliantly told' MUSTAFA SULEYMAN, author of The Coming Wave
In June 2024, Nvidia became the most valuable corporation on Earth. The Thinking Machine is the astonishing story of how a designer of videogame equipment conquered the market for AI hardware, and in the process reinvented the computer.
It is the story of a determined entrepreneur who defied Wall Street to push his radical vision for computing, becoming one of the wealthiest men alive.
And it's the story of our awesome and terrifying AI future, as a new kind of microchip unlocks hyper-realistic avatars, autonomous robots, self-driving cars and new movies, art and books, generated on command.
'A page-turning biography of perhaps the most consequential CEO and company in the world' DAVID EPSTEIN, author of Range
'Brilliantly captures the riveting, unlikely story of Jensen Huang's Nvidia' RAY KURZWEIL, author of The Singularity is Nearer
AI tech giant Nvidia is the world's first $5-trillion company.
It has shaped life as we know it.
This is the inside story of the company that is inventing the future and its charismatic CEO Jensen Huang.
'Gripping and brilliantly told' MUSTAFA SULEYMAN, author of The Coming Wave
In June 2024, Nvidia became the most valuable corporation on Earth. The Thinking Machine is the astonishing story of how a designer of videogame equipment conquered the market for AI hardware, and in the process reinvented the computer.
It is the story of a determined entrepreneur who defied Wall Street to push his radical vision for computing, becoming one of the wealthiest men alive.
And it's the story of our awesome and terrifying AI future, as a new kind of microchip unlocks hyper-realistic avatars, autonomous robots, self-driving cars and new movies, art and books, generated on command.
'A page-turning biography of perhaps the most consequential CEO and company in the world' DAVID EPSTEIN, author of Range
'Brilliantly captures the riveting, unlikely story of Jensen Huang's Nvidia' RAY KURZWEIL, author of The Singularity is Nearer
Reviews / Votes
Witt has a knack for explaining the science in ways that everyone can understand... A thrilling origin story... This is the rarest of books on tech - one that may just leave you feeling good about an entrepreneur founder and optimistic about the future * Sunday Times * Gripping and brilliantly told, this is the amazing story of the improbable origins of one of the most important technologies of our times * Mustafa Suleyman, author of The Coming Wave and CEO of Microsoft AI * Stephen Witt's deep reporting shines through every page of The Thinking Machine. The result is a page-turning biography of perhaps the most consequential CEO and company in the world -- David Epstein, author of Range The Thinking Machine brilliantly captures the riveting, unlikely story of Jensen Huang's Nvidia-a company driving the exponential growth of artificial intelligence and humanity's inevitable merger with technology. Stephen Witt's exceptional reporting offers a rare glimpse into the pioneers driving humanity's leap toward an infinite future -- Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity is Nearer A great story and Witt tells it well. He paints a rounded picture of a remarkable entrepreneur - part visionary, part maniacal workaholic, part inspiring corporate leader * Observer * Closely reported and brilliantly written ... Highly entertaining * Guardian * Thought-provoking, [and] occasionally alarming... Jensen Huang... deserves this wide-ranging account of his life and the meteoric rise of his company * Mail on Sunday * The Thinking Machine...is the second such corporate biography [on Nvidia]... Witt approaches his subject with a more critical eye and more verve * Economist * The richer and more accessible account of Nvidia's 30-year journey from Silicon Valley...to AI behemoth * Financial Times * [A] deeply researched, illuminating and often rather funny book... for those wanting an engaging and revealing insight into what Nvidia's journey to becoming one of most vital firms of the modern tech industry has been like, The Thinking Machine is unrivalled * Daily Telegraph * Witt has a knack for explaining the science in ways that everyone can understand... A thrilling origin story... This is the rarest of books on tech - one that may just leave you feeling good about an entrepreneur founder and optimistic about the future * Sunday Times * Gripping and brilliantly told, this is the amazing story of the improbable origins of one of the most important technologies of our times * Mustafa Suleyman, author of The Coming Wave and CEO of Microsoft AI * Stephen Witt's deep reporting shines through every page of The Thinking Machine. The result is a page-turning biography of perhaps the most consequential CEO and company in the world -- David Epstein, author of Range The Thinking Machine brilliantly captures the riveting, unlikely story of Jensen Huang's Nvidia-a company driving the exponential growth of artificial intelligence and humanity's inevitable merger with technology. Stephen Witt's exceptional reporting offers a rare glimpse into the pioneers driving humanity's leap toward an infinite future -- Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity is Nearer A great story and Witt tells it well. He paints a rounded picture of a remarkable entrepreneur - part visionary, part maniacal workaholic, part inspiring corporate leader * Observer * Closely reported and brilliantly written ... Highly entertaining * Guardian * Thought-provoking, [and] occasionally alarming... Jensen Huang... deserves this wide-ranging account of his life and the meteoric rise of his company * Mail on Sunday * The Thinking Machine...is the second such corporate biography [on Nvidia]... Witt approaches his subject with a more critical eye and more verve * Economist * The richer and more accessible account of Nvidia's 30-year journey from Silicon Valley...to AI behemoth * Financial Times * [A] deeply researched, illuminating and often rather funny book... for those wanting an engaging and revealing insight into what Nvidia's journey to becoming one of most vital firms of the modern tech industry has been like, The Thinking Machine is unrivalled * Daily Telegraph *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84792-827-6 (9781847928276)
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Stephen Witt is the author of How Music Got Free, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Financial Times, New York magazine, Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone and GQ. He lives in Los Angeles, California.