Stephen Witt

Soon to be a Paramount+ documentary series, narrated by Method Man and produced by Marshall Mathers, LeBron James, and moreOne of Billboard’s 100 Greatest Music Books of All TimeFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearA New York Times Editors’ ChoiceONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST The Washington Post • The Financial Times • Slate • The Atlantic • Time • Forbes“[How Music Got Free] has the clear writing and brisk reportorial acumen of a Michael Lewis book.”—Dwight Garner, The New York TimesWhat happens when an entire generation commits the same crime?How Music Got Free is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime, and money, featuring visionaries and criminals, moguls and tech-savvy teenagers. It’s about the greatest pirate in history, the most powerful executive in the music business, a revolutionary invention and an illegal website four times the size of the iTunes Music Store. Journalist Stephen Witt traces the secret history of digital music piracy, from the German audio engineers who invented the mp3, to a North Carolina compact-disc manufacturing plant where factory worker Dell Glover leaked nearly two thousand albums over the course of a decade, to the high-rises of midtown Manhattan where music executive Doug Morris cornered the global market on rap, and, finally, into the darkest recesses of the Internet.Through these interwoven narratives, Witt has written a thrilling book that depicts the moment in history when ordinary life became forever entwined with the world online—when, suddenly, all the music ever recorded was available for free. In the page-turning tradition of writers like Michael Lewis and Lawrence Wright, Witt’s deeply reported first book introduces the unforgettable characters—inventors, executives, factory workers, and smugglers—who revolutionized an entire artform, and reveals for the first time the secret underworld of media pirates that transformed our digital lives.An irresistible never-before-told story of greed, cunning, genius, and deceit, How Music Got Free isn’t just a story of the music industry—it’s a must-read history of the Internet itself.

“Stephen Witt’s deep reporting shines through every page of The Thinking Machine. The result is a page-turning biography of perhaps the most consequential CEO and company in the world.” —David Epstein, New York Times bestselling author of RangeNvidia 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.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.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.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.This is the story of the company that is inventing the future.

A máquina que pensa narra a fascinante trajetória de uma fabricante de equipamentos para videogames que dominou o mercado de hardware para inteligência artificial e reinventou a computação.Em junho de 2024, 31 anos após sua fundação, a Nvidia superou gigantes como a Microsoft e a Apple e se tornou a empresa mais valiosa do planeta. Por trás dessa ascensão extraordinária está o visionário CEO Jensen Huang, que apostou tudo na IA apesar dos poucos indícios científicos promissores. De forma inédita e com acesso exclusivo a Huang, seus amigos, investidores e funcionários, Stephen Witt relata o crescimento épico da empresa e de seu líder incansável, hoje uma das figuras mais influentes do Vale do Silício.Essa é a história de um empreendedor determinado que desafiou Wall Street e, ao defender sua visão radical da computação, tornou-se um dos homens mais ricos do mundo; de uma revolução na arquitetura da computação e do pequeno grupo de engenheiros renegados que a tornaram possível; e do nosso futuro com a IA. À medida que um novo tipo de microchip desbloqueia avatares hiper-realistas, robôs e carros autônomos, e artes geradas sob demanda, Huang chama a IA de “a próxima revolução industrial”.

Wie ein Hersteller von Videospielkomponenten das Silicon Valley schockierte, indem er den Markt für KI-Hardware eroberte und dabei den Computer neu 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«)

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Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original UK ISBN and UK EDITION Cover Image In this Listing shall be Titles In This The Thinking Machine [Hardcover] How Music Got Free [Paperback] Stephen Witt 2 Books Collection Set (The Thinking Machine & How Music Got Free): The Thinking Machine [Hardcover]: 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. ‘Gripping and brilliantly told’ Mustafa Suleyman, author of The Coming Wave In June 2024, thirty-one years after it was founded in a diner, 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. 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. How Music Got They’ve all changed the face of the music business, in the most unexpected ways. How Music Got Free is the incredible true story of how online piracy and the MP3 revolutionised the way our world works, one track at a time. ‘This brilliant book tells you exactly how the perfect storm that forever changed the way we consume music took shape. Like many great works of investigative journalism it makes it clear that this is one of those stories you think you know. Until you realise you don’t’ John Niven, The Spectator ‘Reads like an underworld crime story… concise and very funny… The most remarkable thing about Witt’s book is that virtually none of the names is familiar… Witt finds unlikely heroes in unlikely places’ New Statesman.9781847928276/9780099590071

LA FASCINANTE HISTORIA DE NVIDIA, LA EMPRESA TECNOLÓGICA QUE HA DISPARADO SU VALOR POR SU HARDWARE DE COMPUTACIÓN DE INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL, Y JENSEN HUANG, EL INFLEXIBLE Y CARISMÁTICO DIRECTOR GENERAL DE NVIDIAEn junio de 2024, impulsada por el frenesí inversor que siguió al lanzamiento de ChatGPT y treinta y un años después de su creación en un restaurante Denny's, Nvidia se convirtió en la corporación más valiosa del mundo. En La máquina pensante, el prestigioso periodista Stephen Witt cuenta la improbable historia de cómo un diseñador de componentes de videojuegos sacudió Silicon Valley conquistando el mercado del hardware para IA y durante el proceso reinventó el ordenador.Jensen Huang, el visionario director general de Nvidia, es una pieza esencial en el éxito meteórico de la empresa. Una persona que, hace más de una década y basándose en unos pocos resultados científicos, apostó toda la empresa a la IA. Gracias a un acceso sin precedentes a Huang, sus amigos, inversores y empleados, Witt documenta por primera vez el épico surgimiento de la empresa y su heterodoxo director general, que surge como un líder convincente, resuelto y feroz, y actualmente una de las personas más influyentes de Silicon Valley.La máquina pensante es la historia de cómo Nvidia evolucionó desde el suministro de componentes para placas de circuito hasta el suministro de superordenadores de cientos de millones de dólares.Es la historia de un emprendedor con determinación que desafió a Wall Street para impulsar su visión radical de la computación y durante el proceso se convirtió en uno de los hombres vivos más ricos.Y es la historia de nuestro impresionante y aterrador futuro con la IA, que Huang ha promocionado como la «siguiente revolución industrial».