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by Senta Belay (Author)
Three years ago, ChatGPT launched. The world hasn't been the same since.
But this revolution didn't happen overnight. The threads stretch back decades, to a juvenile delinquent who became the most important programmer of his generation, a CEO who nearly went bankrupt three times before his company became the most valuable on Earth, and a professor who kept faith through forty years when the field declared his ideas dead.
The AI Renaissance tells the complete story of how artificial intelligence became real.
You'll meet John Carmack, the programmer whose quest to render Hell in real-time accidentally established the computational philosophy powering neural networks. Jensen Huang, the immigrant who cleaned toilets at nine years old and built a trillion-dollar empire on a technology bet nobody understood. Geoffrey Hinton, the "Godfather of AI" who won the Nobel Prize, then left Google to warn the world about what he helped create.
And the next generation: Sam Altman and the ChatGPT moment. Ilya Sutskever's crisis of faith. The scaling wars between OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta. The Eastern Front as DeepSeek challenges American dominance.
The godfathers who built this revolution no longer agree on what comes next. Some believe the future lies in world models. Others have concluded that any system that pursues goals will eventually pursue the wrong ones.
The conspiracy has fractured. The heretics have multiplied.
This is not a technical manual. It's a human story-told through the voices of the people who built the most transformative technology of our era. Their brilliance. Their doubts. Their disagreements about what comes next.
Welcome to the Renaissance.
