The Infinity Machine

A rigorous account of how a London games company became the most consequential AI lab in the world. The book captures how much of AI's trajectory was shaped by a small group of people with specific intellectual obsessions, and how different the British approach was from Silicon Valley's. The AlphaGo and AlphaFold chapters are gripping even if you know the outcomes. Essential context for anyone trying to understand how we got from academic curiosity to geopolitical race.