AI tech giant Nvidia is as valuable as Apple and Microsoft.

It has shaped the world as we know it.
This is the inside story of the company that is inventing the future and its charismatic CEO Jensen Huang.

‘Gripping and brilliantly told’ Mustafa Suleyman, author of The Coming Wave

In June 2024, Nvidia became the most valuable corporation on Earth. The Thinking Machine is the astonishing story of how a designer of videogame equipment conquered the market for AI hardware, and in the process reinvented the computer.

It is the story of a determined entrepreneur who defied Wall Street to push his radical vision for computing, becoming one of the wealthiest men alive.

And it’s the story of our awesome and terrifying AI future, as a new kind of microchip unlocks hyper-realistic avatars, autonomous robots, self-driving cars and new movies, art and books, generated on command.

‘A page-turning biography of perhaps the most consequential CEO and company in the world’ David Epstein, author of Range

‘Brilliantly captures the riveting, unlikely story of Jensen Huang's Nvidia’ Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity is Nearer

AI tech giant Nvidia is as valuable as Apple and Microsoft.

It has shaped the world as we know it.
This is the inside story of the company that is inventing the future and its charismatic CEO Jensen Huang.

‘Gripping and brilliantly told’ Mustafa Suleyman, author of The Coming Wave

In June 2024, Nvidia became the most valuable corporation on Earth. The Thinking Machine is the astonishing story of how a designer of videogame equipment conquered the market for AI hardware, and in the process reinvented the computer.

It is the story of a determined entrepreneur who defied Wall Street to push his radical vision for computing, becoming one of the wealthiest men alive.

And it’s the story of our awesome and terrifying AI future, as a new kind of microchip unlocks hyper-realistic avatars, autonomous robots, self-driving cars and new movies, art and books, generated on command.

‘A page-turning biography of perhaps the most consequential CEO and company in the world’ David Epstein, author of Range

‘Brilliantly captures the riveting, unlikely story of Jensen Huang's Nvidia’ Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity is Nearer

"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" - Sunday Times

"Gripping and brilliantly told, this is the amazing story of the improbable origins of one of the most important technologies of our times" - Mustafa Suleyman, author of The Coming Wave and CEO of Microsoft AI

"[A] deeply researched, illuminating and often rather funny book… for those wanting an engaging and revealing insight into what Nvidia’s journey to becoming one of most vital firms of the modern tech industry has been like, The Thinking Machine is unrivalled" - Daily Telegraph

"A delicious account of how a scrawny Taiwanese immigrant, with an intense commitment to reason, loyalty to people, and a Stakhanovite work ethic, built the engine of the AI revolution" - Michael Moritz, former Chairman, Sequoia Capital

"The Thinking Machine…is the second such corporate biography [on Nvidia]… Witt approaches his subject with a more critical eye and more verve" - Economist

"The richer and more accessible account of Nvidia’s 30-year journey from Silicon Valley…to AI behemoth" - Financial Times

"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" - Sunday Times

"Gripping and brilliantly told, this is the amazing story of the improbable origins of one of the most important technologies of our times" - Mustafa Suleyman, author of The Coming Wave and CEO of Microsoft AI

"[A] deeply researched, illuminating and often rather funny book… for those wanting an engaging and revealing insight into what Nvidia’s journey to becoming one of most vital firms of the modern tech industry has been like, The Thinking Machine is unrivalled" - Daily Telegraph

"A delicious account of how a scrawny Taiwanese immigrant, with an intense commitment to reason, loyalty to people, and a Stakhanovite work ethic, built the engine of the AI revolution" - Michael Moritz, former Chairman, Sequoia Capital

"The Thinking Machine…is the second such corporate biography [on Nvidia]… Witt approaches his subject with a more critical eye and more verve" - Economist

"The richer and more accessible account of Nvidia’s 30-year journey from Silicon Valley…to AI behemoth" - Financial Times