This may lead to greater sales of Nvidia's latest GPUs as they can maximize inferencing performance. The company's new Blackwell architecture will give test-time scaling -- a technique that allows a model to think over a problem -- on models like DeepSeek R1 "a giant boost," Nvidia says.

U.S.-listed shares of tech giants are gaining some lost ground this morning after a China-based startup shocked the AI world with a powerful LLM. Yesterday, shockwaves rippled across the American tech industry after news spread over the weekend about a powerful new large language model (LLM) from China called DeepSeek.

Investors freaked out as China-based DeepSeek's AI chatbot became a threat to Nvidia, but some strategists say this will be a net positive for stocks.

One of the biggest stories from last week underscores just how critical AI has become—not just for Silicon Valley, but for America’s national security.

The economist adds that some observers contend that "there's no way the advanced technology was built so fast alongside such a modest figure." Nevertheless, the idea that DeepSeek