The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip

Winner of the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award

Named a Best Book of 2025 by The Economist

“Framed as a biography of Jensen Huang, the only CEO Nvidia has ever had, the book is also something more interesting and revealing: a window onto the intellectual, cultural, and economic ecosystem that has led to the emergence of superpowerful AI.”
—James Surowiecki, The Atlantic

“A lively biography . . .  The story of how Nvidia became the hottest investment on Wall Street and a household name is fascinating.”
—Katie Notopoulos, The New York Times Book Review

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 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 designer of video game components shocked Silicon Valley by conquering 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, 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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