Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip

The Thinking Machine

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

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

You need to get hold of Stephen Witt's jaundiced, whip-smart, superbly report and indispensable How Music Got Free

Closely reported and brilliantly written ... Highly entertaining

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.

The riveting investigative account of Nvidia, the tech company that has exploded in value for its artificial intelligence computing hardware, and Jensen Huang, Nvidia&rsquo;s charismatic, uncompromising CEO 
 
In March 2024, following the revelation that ChatGPT had trained on Nvidia&rsquo;s microchips, and twenty-one years after its founding in a Denny&rsquo;s restaurant, Nvidia became the third 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 establishing a monopoly on AI hardware, and in the process re-invented the computer. 
 
Essential to Nvidia&rsquo;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&rsquo;s epic rise and its iconoclastic CEO, who emerges as a compelling, single-minded, and ferocious leader, and now one of Silicon Valley&rsquo;s most influential figures. 
 
The Thinking Machine is the story of how Nvidia evolved from selling cheap, aftermarket circuit boards to hundred-million-dollar room-sized 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 about a revolution in computer architecture, and the small group of renegade engineers who made it happen. And it&rsquo;s the story of our awesome and terrifying AI future, which Huang has billed as the &ldquo;next industrial revolution,&rdquo; as a new kind of microchip unlocks hyper-realistic avatars, autonomous robots, self-driving cars, and new movies, art, and books, generated on command.

Stephen Richard Witt

The Inventor, the Music Man, and the Thief

NOW A MAJOR NEW DOCUMENTARY SERIES 
 
What links Taylor Swift to a factory worker? 
Kanye West to a German engineer? 
Beyoncé to a boardroom mogul? 
 
They’ve all changed the face of the music business, in the most unexpected ways. 
 
How Music Got Free is the incredible true story of how online piracy and the MP3 revolutionised the way our world works, one track at a time. 
 
‘This brilliant book tells you exactly how the perfect storm that forever changed the way we consume music took shape. Like many great works of investigative journalism it makes it clear that this is one of those stories you think you know. Until you realise you don’t’ John Niven, The Spectator 
 
‘Reads like an underworld crime story… concise and very funny… The most remarkable thing about Witt’s book is that virtually none of the names is familiar… Witt finds unlikely heroes in unlikely places’ New Statesman

Stephen Richard Witt

How Music Got Free

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