How Music Got Free

Wie ein Hersteller von Videospielkomponenten das Silicon Valley schockierte, indem er den Markt für KI-Hardware eroberte und dabei den Computer neu erfand: Der renommierte Journalist Stephen Witt liefert einen faszinierenden Bericht vom Aufstieg des Technologieunternehmens Nvidia und seines charismatischen, kompromisslosen Gründers Jensen Huang. Er erhielt exklusiven Zugang zu ihm, seinen Freunden, Investoren und Mitarbeitenden.- Die einzigartige und fesselnd erzählte Geschichte eines entschlossenen Unternehmers- Die Geschichte einer Revolution in der Computertechnologie und der kleinen Gruppe von verwegenen Ingenieuren, die sie möglich machte- Die Geschichte der so fantastischen wie beängstigenden KI-Zukunft mit chipgesteuerten hyperrealistischen Avataren und autonomen Robotern'Ein fantastisches, aktuelles und informatives Buch. Stephen Witt ist ein mitreißender und kenntnisreicher Autor, seine Recherche und seine Erzählkunst sind beispielhaft.' Nick Hornby, The Sunday Times (zu 'How Music Got Free')

Winner of the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award<BR> <BR>Named a Best Book of 2025 by The Economist<BR> <BR>“Framed as a biography of Jensen Huang, the only CEO Nvidia has ever had, the book is also something more interesting and revealing: a window onto the intellectual, cultural, and economic ecosystem that has led to the emergence of superpowerful AI.” —James Surowiecki, The Atlantic<BR> <BR>“A lively biography . . . The story of how Nvidia became the hottest investment on Wall Street and a household name is fascinating.” —Katie Notopoulos, The New York Times Book Review<BR> <BR>Nvidia is as valuable as Apple and Microsoft. It has shaped the world as we know it. But its story is little known. This is the definitive story of the greatest technology company of our times.<BR><BR>In June of 2024, thirty-one years after its founding in a Denny’s restaurant, Nvidia became the most valuable corporation on Earth. The Thinking Machine is the astonishing story of how a designer of video game equipment conquered the market for AI hardware, and in the process re-invented the computer.<BR><BR>Essential to Nvidia’s meteoric success is its visionary CEO Jensen Huang, who more than a decade ago, on the basis of a few promising scientific results, bet his entire company on AI. Through unprecedented access to Huang, his friends, his investors, and his employees, Witt documents for the first time the company’s epic rise and its single-minded and ferocious leader, now one of Silicon Valley’s most influential figures.<BR><BR>The Thinking Machine is the story of how Nvidia evolved to supplying hundred-million-dollar supercomputers. 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. It is the story of a revolution in computer architecture, and the small group of renegade engineers who made it happen. And it’s the story of our awesome and terrifying AI future, which Huang has billed as the ‘next industrial revolution,’ as a new kind of microchip unlocks hyper-realistic avatars, autonomous robots, self-driving cars, and new movies, art, and books, generated on command.<BR><BR>This is the story of the company that is inventing the future.

**WINNER OF THE FT SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 **<BR>**A SUNDAY TIMES, ECONOMIST AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025**<BR><BR>AI tech giant Nvidia is the world's first $5-trillion company.<BR><BR>It has shaped life as we know it.<BR><BR>This is the inside story of the company that is inventing the future and its charismatic CEO Jensen Huang.<BR><BR>'Gripping and brilliantly told' MUSTAFA SULEYMAN, author of The Coming Wave<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>'A page-turning biography of perhaps the most consequential CEO and company in the world' DAVID EPSTEIN, author of Range<BR><BR>'Brilliantly captures the riveting, unlikely story of Jensen Huang's Nvidia' RAY KURZWEIL, author of The Singularity is Nearer

WINNER OF THE FT SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025A SUNDAY TIMES, ECONOMIST AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Gripping and brilliantly told' MUSTAFA SULEYMAN'Highly entertaining' GUARDIAN'Excellent' ECONOMIST'Riveting ... exceptional' RAY KURZWEIL'Page-turning' DAVID EPSTEINThis is the story of the company that is inventing the future.Nvidia is the world's first $5-trillion company and the most important corporation on Earth. Led by its charismatic CEO, Jensen Huang, it has gone from video game equipment manufacturer to conquering the global market for AI hardware, reinventing the computer and shaping life as we know it.With unprecedented access to Huang, award-winning investigative journalist Stephen Witt takes us inside Nvidia to tell the definitive story of the greatest technology company of our times. It is the astonishing story of renegade engineers and Silicon Valley disrupters, of fearless entrepreneurs and one revolutionary leader with an extraordinarily singular vision.'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

Witt nefes kesici bir hikaye anlatiyor; basrolde müzigin kodamanlari, titiz mi titiz Alman biliminsanlari, korsanlar ve basit hirsizlar var...Bayildim.Colin Greenwood, RadioheadBillboard dergisinin tüm zamanlarin en iyi 100 müzik kitabi; Time, Forbes, The Washington Post ve The Financial Times gibi yayinlarin yilin en iyi kitaplari arasinda gösterdigi Bedava Müzik; tarihin en büyük korsani, müzik piyasasinin en etkili patronu, devrim yaratan bir kesif ve devasa bir yasadisi müzik sitesi üzerine nefes kesici bir hikaye. MP3ü icat eden Alman ses mühendislerinden, on yil icinde iki bin albüm sizdiran Kuzey Carolinali CD fabrikasi iscisine, plak sirketi patronlarinin uluslararasi müzik piyasasina yön verdigi Manhattan gökdelenlerinden, internetin en kuytu köselerine uzanan Bedava Müzik, dijital müzik korsanliginin gizli tarihine isik tutuyor.

**WINNER OF THE FT SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 **<BR>**A SUNDAY TIMES, ECONOMIST AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025**<BR><BR>AI tech giant Nvidia is the world's first $5-trillion company.<BR><BR>It has shaped life as we know it.<BR><BR>This is the inside story of the company that is inventing the future and its charismatic CEO Jensen Huang.<BR><BR>'Gripping and brilliantly told' MUSTAFA SULEYMAN, author of The Coming Wave<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>'A page-turning biography of perhaps the most consequential CEO and company in the world' DAVID EPSTEIN, author of Range<BR><BR>'Brilliantly captures the riveting, unlikely story of Jensen Huang's Nvidia' RAY KURZWEIL, author of The Singularity is Nearer