Investors definitely weren’t thinking this way on Monday, concerned about reports that Chinese artificial-intelligence service DeepSeek was substantially cheaper and better than OpenAI.  This is a good time to remind all investors that the stock market is really just a manic crowd.

DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up, is sending shock waves through the U.S. tech sector by demonstrating its latest AI assistant, which achieves performance comparable to or even surpassing some of the world's best chatbots.

According to a paper authored by the lab, the DeepSeek-R1 model outperforms cutting-edge models such as OpenAI’s o1 and Meta’s Llama AI models across multiple benchmarks.

DeepSeek stunned the tech world with the release of its R1 "reasoning" model, matching or exceeding OpenAI's reasoning model for a fraction of the cost.

Technology stocks were rocked to their core Monday after claims made by a Chinese start-up threatened to upend the existing artificial intelligence (AI) paradigm.

Nvidia stock surged as the AI chipmaker began to recover from a massive decline the prior day that shaved nearly $600 billion off its market cap.

Nvidia is touting the performance of DeepSeek’s open source AI models on its just-launched RTX 50-series GPUs, claiming that they can “run the DeepSeek family of distilled models faster than anything on the PC market.

Nvidia's H800 was launched in March 2023 and is a cut-down version of the H100 It is also significantly slower than Nvidia's H200 and AMD's Instinct range These artificial constraints have forced DeepSeek's engineering to innovate It was widely assumed that the United States would remain unchallenged as the global AI superpower,