In this book, Witt recounts how Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, took a gamble more than a decade ago on a technology that then seemed marginal: artificial intelligence. This risky decision ended up redefining the architecture of the modern computer and placing the company at the heart of today's technological revolution. Thanks to unprecedented access to Huang, his inner circle, employees, investors, and competitors, the author documents for the first time Nvidia's complete journey and paints a portrait of a charismatic, demanding, and visionary leader, now considered one of the most influential figures in Silicon Valley.

 

The Thinking Machine explains how Nvidia evolved from designing graphics cards to supplying supercomputers worth hundreds of millions of dollars, essential for training the world's most advanced artificial intelligence models. Platforms like ChatGPT, Copilot, and Midjourney are built on Nvidia infrastructure, solidifying the company as the backbone of the AI ​​ecosystem. Beyond the business perspective, the book reflects on the future that lies before us: hyper-realistic avatars, autonomous robots, driverless cars, and new forms of cultural creation generated by AI. Jensen Huang defines this scenario as the "next industrial revolution," and its fascinating and unsettling consequences will shape the coming decades. With a fluid narrative style and journalistic rigor, Stephen Witt delivers an essential account for understanding the power of hardware in the age of artificial intelligence.

 

Stephen Witt is a journalist and author of *How We Stopped Paying for Music*, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and recognized by the Financial Times and McKinsey as one of the best books of the year. He has published in outlets such as *The New Yorker*, *Financial Times*, *The Wall Street Journal*, *Rolling Stone*, and *GQ*. He lives in Los Angeles.