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The narrative explores Nvidia's remarkable ascent from a video game component manufacturer to a leader in AI computing hardware, culminating in its status as the third most-valuable company globally by March 2024. Central to this transformation is CEO Jensen Huang, whose bold bet on AI reshaped the tech landscape. The book details Huang's visionary leadership, the evolution of Nvidia's technology, and the innovative engineers behind this revolution. It also contemplates the profound implications of AI advancements for the future, heralding a new industrial era.

Journalist Stephen Witt traces the history of digital music piracy, from the German audio engineers who invented the mp3, to a North Carolina compact-disc manufacturing plant where factory worker Dell Glover leaked nearly two thousand albums over the course of a decade, to the high-rises of midtown Manhattan where music executive Doug Morris cornered the global market on rap, and, finally, into the darkest recesses of the Internet.

Nvidia is as valuable as Apple and Microsoft. It has shaped the world as we know it. But its story is little known. This is the definitive story of the greatest technology company of our times. 'Gripping and brilliantly told' Mustafa Suleyman, author of The Coming Wave In June 2024, thirty-one years after it was founded in a diner, 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. 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, Stephen Witt documents for the first time the company's epic rise and its single-minded and ferocious leader, now one of Silicon Valley's most influential figures. The Thinking Machine is the story of how Nvidia evolved 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, 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. This is the story of the company that is inventing the future. '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 ... Exceptional reporting' Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity is Nearer