Shares of chipmaker Nvidia plunged Monday, for its worst day since the global market selloff in March 2020 that the coronavirus pandemic triggered.
In what marks the largest single-day drop in stock market history, Nvidia's valuation has been hit by China's answer to ChatGPT.
Chinese startup DeepSeek has debuted an AI app that challenges OpenAI's ChatGPT and other U.S. rivals, sending a shock through Wall Street.
Many top exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that have been outperforming the S&P 500 in recent years all have a common theme, which is that their top three holdings usually include at least one of the following tech stocks: Nvidia,
The emergence of China-based AI app DeepSeek sent shares plummeting on Monday for many U.S. tech giants, including chipmaker Nvidia and AI-backer Microsoft.
Since the start of 2023, Nvidia's (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock has gained an astronomical 906% as of the time of writing. While this is common investor thinking, it's caused many (including myself) to miss a large chunk of Nvidia's rise.
Nvidia is once again the most valuable U.S. company, outranking Apple for the first time since late November. The chip maker ended Tuesday with a market capitalization of $3.449 trillion, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
DeepSeek topped the Apple App Store chart and sparked fears the Chinese company was quickly catching up with OpenAI's ChatGPT while costing far less.
In Amsterdam, Dutch chipmaking equipment company ASML slid 7%. In Tokyo, Japan’s Softbank Group Corp. lost 8.3% to pull closer to where it was before leaping on an announcement trumpeted by the White House that it was joining a partnership to invest up to $500 billion in AI infrastructure.
With Monday’s losses, Apple has retaken the title of world’s most valuable company and Nvidia’s value sank to around $2.8 trillion.
Nvidia is the gold standard and leading provider of the graphics processing units (GPUs) used to train and run AI systems. The company is believed to control as much as 98% of the data center GPU market, according to semiconductor analyst firm TechInsights. If AI models can be trained on lower-cost, inferior chips, Nvidia has a lot to lose.