The Thinking Machine

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

De: Stephen Witt

Narrado por: Stephen Witt

Brought to you by Penguin.

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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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

Great intro to Nvidia and Jensen weighed down by dorm room ai doomerism

I'd give it 5 stars all the way without the last two chapters. Skip them for a way better book. The author mentions Arthur C Clarke a lot because it seems more cerebral than referencing Terminator 2. But other than that, this is a great book.

The Thinking Machine

The detailed story of Jensen, key decisions and turning points of his success, the outlook ahead for AI and Nvidia

pretty mundane

average book. nothing particularly enlightening about how the company was run other than painting Jensen as an angry obsessive boss that yells at staff that messes up like a Karen