Shares of AI chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA) and a slew of other stocks related to AI 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:sold off Monday as an app from Chinese AI startup DeepSeek boomed in populariꦬty.

DeepSeek's AI assistant recently topped the list of free iPhone apps on Apple's (AAPL) app store. (It wasn't in the top 10 on Alphabet's (GOOGL) Google Play store, though it is listed there.) In Apple's store, the apဣp ranked higher than ChatGPT; not so on Google.

Here’s what you need to know about DeepSeek—and why it’s having a big impact on markets. And if you're wondering if it wasn't that long ago that another Chinese app was topping the download charts, 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:you're not wrong.

What DeepSeek Is–and Why It Is ꦛRa🧜ttling the AI Sector

DeepSeek, a Chinese startup founded by hedge fund manager Liang Wenfeng, was founded in 2023 in Hangzhou, China, the tech hub home to Alibaba (BABA) and many of China’s other high-flying tech giants.

The company says its latest R1 AI model released last week offers performance that is on par with that of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Its V3 base model launched in December was also reportedly developed in just two months for under $6 million, at a time when the U.S. is limiting China's access to its most sophisticated chips and American AI leaders like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta Platforms (META) are spending 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:billions of dollars on development. 

The rapid ascension of DeepSeek has investors worried it could threaten assumptions about how much competitive AI models cost to develop, as well as the kind of infrastructure needed to support them, with wide-reaching implications for the AI marketplace and Big💮 Tech shares.

Nvidia in a statement called DeepSeek "an excellent AI advancement," calling it a "perfect example" of a concept known as test time scaling.

De꧒epSeek-Driven Selloff Hits Chip, Energy Stocks 

The tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 🙈more than 3% Monday as investors dragged a host of stockওs with ties to AI, from chip to energy firms, downwards.

Shares of American AI chipmakers including Nvidia, Broadcom (AVGO) and AMD (AMD) sold off, along with those of international partners like TSMC (TSM). The PHLX Semiconductor Index (SOX) dropped more than 9%. Networking solutions and hardware partner stocks dropped along with them, including Dell (Dell), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Arista Networks (ANET). 

Some energy stocks were hit too. Shares of nuclear and other energy companies that saw their stocks boom in the last year in anticipation of an AI-driven ♓boom in energy demand, such as Vistra (VST), Constellation Energy (CEG), Oklo (OKLO), and NuScale (SMR), also lost ground Monday. 

Meanwhile, some non-tech sectors like consumer staples 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:rose Monday, marking a reconsiꦰderation of the market's momentum in recent months.

Some Analysts See Worries as Overblown

Several analysts raised doubts about the longevity of the market’s reaction Monday, suggesting that the day's pullback could offer investors a chance to pick up AI names set for a rebound. 

Bernstein’s Stacy Rasgon called the reaction “overblown” and maintained an “outperform” rating for Nvidia’s stock price. Citi analysts, who said they expect AI companies to continue buying its advanced chips, maintained a "buy" rating on Nvidia.

Wedbush analysts, who voiced skepticism that any major U.S. companies would use a Chinese startup like DeepSeek to build their AI infrastructure, said “launching a competitive LLM model for consumer use cases is one thing… launching broader AI infrastructure is a whole other ballgame and nothing with DeepSeek makes us believe anything different.” 

Wedbush called Monday a “golden buying opportunity” to own shares in ChatGPT backer Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet, Palantir (PLTR), and other heavyweights of the Amꦜerican AI ecosystem that had come under pressure.

UPDATE—Jan. 27, 2025: This article has been updated since it was first published to include additional information and reflect more recent share price values.