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.
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