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.