Shares of Nvidia ( NVDA 6.97%) surged higher on Tuesday, after taking it on the chin Monday. The maker of graphics processing units (GPUs) used for artificial intelligence (AI) applications gained as much as 7.2%. As of 1:30 p.m. ET, the stock was still up 7.1%.

Shares of Nvidia (NVDA) tumbled Monday after the release of a sophisticated artificial intelligence model from a Chinese startup prompted a reckoning on Wall Street regarding AI spending. Chinese company DeepSeek last week released R1,

What Happened? Shares of leading designer of graphics chips Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) fell 13% in the morning session as stocks heavily tied to the AI market took a hit after Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released a new large language model (DeepSeek-R1) that ranks competitively on key global benchmarks (coding competitions,

Jan. 27, 6:30 p.m. EST President Donald Trump said at a House Republican retreat that the launch of the AI model was “a positive development” but should be considered a “wake-up” call for U.S. industries, lauding the move for what he hoped would usher in a future of “coming up with a faster method of AI, and much less expensive method.”

President Donald Trump said DeepSeek’s AI advances should be a “wake-up call” for the U.S.

Entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, known for co-writing Mosaic, one of the world’s first web browsers, wrote Sunday on X that “DeepSeek R1 is AI’s Sputnik moment,” likening it to the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and the event that forced the U.S. to realize that its technological abilities were not unassailable.

Chuck Zodda, managing partner and Chief Investment Officer from the Armstrong Advisory Group discusses the dip of tech stocks, especially Nvidia after the announcement of Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek.

DeepSeek's new AI model has sparked concerns about Nvidia's dominance in the AI hardware market, causing a drop in the chipmaker's stock and raising questions about the future of high-performance AI chips.