In June 2024, thirty-one years after its founding in a Denny's restaurant, Nvidia became the most valuable company on Earth. "The Thinking Machine" is the story of how a manufacturer of video game chips quietly built a monopoly on AI hardware–and in the process rewrote the rules of computing.
Journalist Stephen Witt traces the rise of CEO Jensen Huang, who bet his entire company on AI more than a decade before anyone else believed in it. The result: the chip that powers ChatGPT, autonomous robots, and the next industrial revolution.
Not a tech story. A power story.
