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The Thinking Machine

Jensen Huang and Nvidia, the company shaping the future of AI

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The Thinking Machine

By: Stephen Witt
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WINNER OF THE FT SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025

A SUNDAY TIMES, ECONOMIST AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

This is the story of the company that is inventing the future.

Nvidia is the world’s first $5-trillion company and the most important corporation on Earth. Led by its charismatic CEO, Jensen Huang, it has gone from video game equipment manufacturer to conquering the global market for AI hardware, reinventing the computer and shaping life as we know it.

With unprecedented access to Huang, award-winning investigative journalist Stephen Witt takes us inside Nvidia to tell the definitive story of the greatest technology company of our times. It is the astonishing story of renegade engineers and Silicon Valley disrupters, of fearless entrepreneurs and one revolutionary leader with an extraordinarily singular vision.

‘Gripping and brilliantly told’ MUSTAFA SULEYMAN
‘Highly entertaining’ GUARDIAN
‘Excellent’ ECONOMIST
'Riveting ... exceptional' RAY KURZWEIL
‘Page-turning’ DAVID EPSTEIN

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Critic reviews

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
Gripping and brilliantly told, this is the amazing story of the improbable origins of one of the most important technologies of our times
An excellent biography of Jensen Huang … Stephen Witt weaves together the story of the man, his company and the computer science that led to large language models such as ChatGPT, which brought generative AI to the masses in 2022
Jensen Huang, the obsessive co-founder and chief executive of Nvidia, the AI chipmaking giant, is at the centre of this deeply reported and accessible account of the group’s rise to become one of the world’s most valuable companies
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
Closely reported and brilliantly written ... Highly entertaining
Thought-provoking, [and] occasionally alarming… Jensen Huang… deserves this wide-ranging account of his life and the meteoric rise of his company
The Thinking Machine…is the second such corporate biography [on Nvidia]… Witt approaches his subject with a more critical eye and more verve
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Loved the methodical detail running in sequence of Jenson life and achievements this required reading to the public at large

The phenomenon of Jenson

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A stunning story told with clarity and insight of some of the key characters in the AI journey. Took me a while to get used to the high register of the narrator, but ultimately enjoyed him too.

A timely read

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Fascinating insight into the minds and machines that are NVIDIA. Very much recommended. A tech must read

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