The AI Renaissance
How a Programmer, a CEO, and a Professor Built the Foundation for Modern AIBy Senta Belay
Length8h 24m
About this audiobook
Three people who never met built the same cathedral.
A programmer in Texas wanted to make video game demons run faster. A CEO in California bet his company on technology nobody wanted. A professor in Toronto kept faith in neural networks through forty years of rejection.
None of them were trying to create artificial intelligence.
Yet their separate obsessions, pursued independently, across different decades, for entirely different reasons, converged to build the foundation for ChatGPT, AlphaGo, and the AI revolution reshaping our world.
"The AI Renaissance" tells the untold origin story of artificial intelligence through the lives of John Carmack, Jensen Huang, and Geoffrey Hinton. From Doom's demons to Davos 2026 - and the fracturing that followed. The godfathers who built this revolution no longer agree on what comes next. The builders told their story - in podcasts, lectures, and conversations scattered everywhere. This book brings it together for the first time.
Audiobook details
GenreTechnology, Biography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 24 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 25, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1 01 Opening Credits
1717 Interlude - The Library
202 Preface
1818 Interlude - The Teacher
303 Introduction - The Cathedral Builders
1919 Chapter 13 - The Kingmaker
404 Chapter 1 - The Doom Equation
2020 Chapter 14 - The Faith
505 Chapter 2 - The Quake Revolution
2121 Chapter 15 - The Fracturing
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606 Chapter 3 - The Survivor
2222 Chapter 16 - The Eastern Front
707 Chapter 4 - The Bet
2323 Interlude - The Game
808 Chapter 5 - The Heretic
2424 Chapter 17 - The Doubters
909 Chapter 6 - The Vigil
2525 Chapter 18 - The World Builders
1010 Chapter 7 - Two Graphics Cards
2626 Chapter 19 - The Cathedral
1111 Chapter 8 - The Annihilation
2727 Epilogue
1212 Interlude - The Coffee Shop
2828 Afterword
1313 Chapter 9 - The Builders Afterward
2929 A Note on Creation
1414 Chapter 10 - The Scalers
3030 Acknowledgments
1515 Chapter 11 - The Foundations
3131 About the Author
1616 Chapter 12 - The Interface
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