Most people know Nvidia as the company behind expensive graphics cards for gamers, but it also helped create the technological foundation for the AI revolution. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s contrarian bet on parallel computing made this happen. In The Thinking Machine, Stephen Witt details the rewards Huang reaped by spending over a decade investing in academic computing tools that seemed commercially worthless. That positioned Nvidia perfectly for the moment when AI systems needed massive parallel processing power. Witt also provides an inside look at Huang’s unconventional leadership methods and the potential threats to Nvidia’s success. Keep reading for a full
The Thinking Machine by Stephen Witt: Book Overview
