The Thinking Machine
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The Thinking Machine by Stephen Witt
**WINNER OF THE FT SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 ** **A SUNDAY TIMES, ECONOMIST AND FINANCIAL TIMES 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
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 MachineThe 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 delicious account of how a scrawny Taiwanese immigrant, with an intense commitment to reason, loyalty to people, and a Stakhanovite work ethic, built the engine of the AI revolution * Michael Moritz, former Chairman, Sequoia Capital *
The AI revolution that defines this decade, and probably this century, rests on the shoulders of a shockingly small number of geniuses; and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is prominent among them. Witt’s superb portrait is both entertaining and disquieting, capturing an indispensable, elusive, and isolated man: the hardware wizard behind the machines that are careering toward something very much like sentience -- Sebastian Mallaby, New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Law
Before reading The Thinking Machine, I didn't understand just how much the rise of Jensen Huang and Nvidia explains the sudden explosion of artificial intelligence. Stephen Witt’s sweeping narrative offers a roadmap to the various forces rapidly changing our lives, tucked into the wild insider story of how one of our strangest and most singular entrepreneurs—in an era chock full of them—not only built a remarkable company but also helped to usher in our brave new world -- Reeves Wiedeman, author of Billion Dollar Loser
Incredible, possibly canonical ... A story that's too bizarre to make up, but needed to be told ... How Music Got Free is one of the most gripping investigative books of the year * Vice *
You need to get hold of Stephen Witt's jaundiced, whip-smart, superbly report and indispensable How Music Got Free * Washington Post *
Closely reported and brilliantly written ... Highly entertaining * Guardian *
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 delicious account of how a scrawny Taiwanese immigrant, with an intense commitment to reason, loyalty to people, and a Stakhanovite work ethic, built the engine of the AI revolution * Michael Moritz, former Chairman, Sequoia Capital *
The AI revolution that defines this decade, and probably this century, rests on the shoulders of a shockingly small number of geniuses; and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is prominent among them. Witt’s superb portrait is both entertaining and disquieting, capturing an indispensable, elusive, and isolated man: the hardware wizard behind the machines that are careering toward something very much like sentience -- Sebastian Mallaby, New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Law
Before reading The Thinking Machine, I didn't understand just how much the rise of Jensen Huang and Nvidia explains the sudden explosion of artificial intelligence. Stephen Witt’s sweeping narrative offers a roadmap to the various forces rapidly changing our lives, tucked into the wild insider story of how one of our strangest and most singular entrepreneurs—in an era chock full of them—not only built a remarkable company but also helped to usher in our brave new world -- Reeves Wiedeman, author of Billion Dollar Loser
Incredible, possibly canonical ... A story that's too bizarre to make up, but needed to be told ... How Music Got Free is one of the most gripping investigative books of the year * Vice *
You need to get hold of Stephen Witt's jaundiced, whip-smart, superbly report and indispensable How Music Got Free * Washington Post *
Closely reported and brilliantly written ... Highly entertaining * Guardian *
Stephen Witt’s deep reporting shines through every page of The Thinking MachineThe 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 delicious account of how a scrawny Taiwanese immigrant, with an intense commitment to reason, loyalty to people, and a Stakhanovite work ethic, built the engine of the AI revolution * Michael Moritz, former Chairman, Sequoia Capital *
The AI revolution that defines this decade, and probably this century, rests on the shoulders of a shockingly small number of geniuses; and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is prominent among them. Witt’s superb portrait is both entertaining and disquieting, capturing an indispensable, elusive, and isolated man: the hardware wizard behind the machines that are careering toward something very much like sentience -- Sebastian Mallaby, New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Law
Before reading The Thinking Machine, I didn't understand just how much the rise of Jensen Huang and Nvidia explains the sudden explosion of artificial intelligence. Stephen Witt’s sweeping narrative offers a roadmap to the various forces rapidly changing our lives, tucked into the wild insider story of how one of our strangest and most singular entrepreneurs—in an era chock full of them—not only built a remarkable company but also helped to usher in our brave new world -- Reeves Wiedeman, author of Billion Dollar Loser
PRAISE FOR HOW MUSIC GOT FREE
Terrific, timely, informative ... [Witt's] research and storytelling are exemplary ... How Music Got Free stands comparison to The Social Network
Incredible, possibly canonical ... A story that's too bizarre to make up, but needed to be told ... How Music Got Free is one of the most gripping investigative books of the year * Vice *
You need to get hold of Stephen Witt's jaundiced, whip-smart, superbly report and indispensable How Music Got Free * Washington Post *
Closely reported and brilliantly written ... Highly entertaining * Guardian *
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 delicious account of how a scrawny Taiwanese immigrant, with an intense commitment to reason, loyalty to people, and a Stakhanovite work ethic, built the engine of the AI revolution * Michael Moritz, former Chairman, Sequoia Capital *
The AI revolution that defines this decade, and probably this century, rests on the shoulders of a shockingly small number of geniuses; and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is prominent among them. Witt’s superb portrait is both entertaining and disquieting, capturing an indispensable, elusive, and isolated man: the hardware wizard behind the machines that are careering toward something very much like sentience -- Sebastian Mallaby, New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Law
Before reading The Thinking Machine, I didn't understand just how much the rise of Jensen Huang and Nvidia explains the sudden explosion of artificial intelligence. Stephen Witt’s sweeping narrative offers a roadmap to the various forces rapidly changing our lives, tucked into the wild insider story of how one of our strangest and most singular entrepreneurs—in an era chock full of them—not only built a remarkable company but also helped to usher in our brave new world -- Reeves Wiedeman, author of Billion Dollar Loser
PRAISE FOR HOW MUSIC GOT FREE
Terrific, timely, informative ... [Witt's] research and storytelling are exemplary ... How Music Got Free stands comparison to The Social Network
Incredible, possibly canonical ... A story that's too bizarre to make up, but needed to be told ... How Music Got Free is one of the most gripping investigative books of the year * Vice *
You need to get hold of Stephen Witt's jaundiced, whip-smart, superbly report and indispensable How Music Got Free * Washington Post *
Closely reported and brilliantly written ... Highly entertaining * Guardian *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847928276 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847928277 |
| Title | The Thinking Machine |
| Author | Stephen Witt |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2025-04-10 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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