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.

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 built a competing large language model (LLM) to OpenAI's ChatGPT, but claims that it trained the model with old Nvidia processors that aren't widely used anymore. This news has shellshocked technologists and analysts across Wall Street because if DeepSeek's methods of building highly capable AI can be done using legacy hardware,

DeepSeek sparked a global tech stock sell-off that cost Nvidia $600 billion in market value. But JPMorgan (JPM) Chase says the AI chipmaker is bound to benefit from the Chinese startup.

While some have recovered, Nvidia ( NVDA 5.21%) has not. Nvidia's stock is around 20% off its all-time high, thanks to the DeepSeek scare, but I don't think investors should panic sell. Instead, they should consider this a buying opportunity,

Doug and Lee talk about the likelihood of Nvidia having a dot-com-like valuation reset as more effective AI models challenge its supremacy, so perhaps changing AI infrastructure spending across the tech industry.