Show Notes
Award-winning journalist Stephen Witt sits down with Josh and Robb to share insights from his latest book, The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip. There’s a deep connection between Nvidia’s GPU chips and the neural networks powering the LLMs at the center of agentic AI. Witt’s book provides a captivating biography of Huang that details his radical approach to business and innovation, which has made Nvidia the most valuable company in the world (recently reaching a record-breaking market cap of $4 trillion). This episode explores this history of AI as well as the coming Omniverse and what the power of simulation will mean to businesses.
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Episode Credits Robb Wilson Josh Tyson Vishal Menon - Producer Mykhailo Lytvynov - Audio/Video Editor & Sound Engineer Daryna Moskovchuk - Graphic Design Alla Slesarenko - Copy Vira Prykhodko - Web Development Elias Parker - Executive Producer
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