The Thinking Machine

• SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 **

AI tech giant Nvidia is the world’s first $4-trillion company.

It has shaped life 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

‘Brilliantly captures the riveting, unlikely story of Jensen Huang’s Nvidia’ RAY KURZWEIL

‘Thrilling … 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

Author Biography

Stephen Witt is the author of How Music Got Free, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Financial Times, New York magazine, Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone and GQ. He lives in Los Angeles, California.