Nvidia Explained: How It Became the World’s Most Powerful Company
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Hello, I'm Connor Boyle and welcome to Intelligence Squared, the podcast about ideas that matter. Today we're returning to an archive following the dramatic news that Jansen Huang has resigned as chief executive of NVIDIA and made revelations about his personal relationships and allegations involving a suspected Chinese spy. Quang helped turn a company making chips for video games into a business at the very heart of the artificial intelligence revolution. His departure raises a question with consequences far beyond Silicon Valley about how much does the future of AI depend on the company he built and on Fang himself. To understand how we reach this moment, we're revisiting our conversation with Steven Witt. author of The Thinking Machine about NVIDIA's extraordinary rise and the ambition and personality of its co-founder This conversation was recorded before the current revelations, but it offers valuable context for understanding the man, his company, and the stakes what happens next.
Here's your host Carl Miller and Steven Witt with more. Hello and very warm welcome everyone to this Intelligence Squared podcast with me, Carmilla. I am delighted to welcome today our guest, Steven Whitt. So Steven is an author and a journalist. He wrote How Music Got Free, which was a book that became a fine list for the LA Times book prize, amongst many other accolades. Actually, and he's also the author of a new book.
The thinking machine. Jensen Huang NVIDIA And the world's most coveted microchip. Steven. Very welcome to you. Thanks so much for joining us today. Yeah, thank you so much for having me. So An easy question to begin, why this book and why now?
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