Related: Palantir's stock price may surge for surprising reason AI chipmaker Sasquatch Nvidia (NVDA) got pummeled, with shares dropping 17% after DeepSeek debuted, wiping out $600 billion of the company's value.

Because Nvidia is still growing its revenue rapidly, using trailing earning metrics can give a false impression of where the company is headed. However, they're also useful in this case because its future had a wrench thrown into it thanks to DeepSeek's breakthrough.

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) shares had a nice rally today, surging nearly 5%. Yet, the stock hasn’t fully recovered from the recent bombshell dropped

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.

Perhaps no stock was more profoundly affected by the news from DeepSeek than Nvidia (NVDA -2.42%). In a sense, DeepSeek validated its dominance by announcing its H800 accelerators

While the demand is there, it's clear that's not the sole reason why Nvidia's RTX 50 series is impossible to find in stores. Many retailers received fairly low stock quantities, as Nvidia reportedly experienced manufacturing issues.

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.

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has gotten off to a bad start on the stock market in 2025, losing more than 10% of its value as of this writing, with Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek's launch of a low-cost but capable AI model playing a key role in the semiconductor giant's troubles.