Brian Colello at Morningstar maintained his target price of $130 per share on Nvidia stock following the DeepSeek news. "We doubt the leading cloud vendors and AI builders will pause their plans," he wrote in a note to clients. "We still think tech firms will continue to buy all the GPUs they can as part this AI gold rush."

Shares of Nvidia ( NVDA -5.29%) were sinking Wednesday. The company's stock fell 6.2% as of 2:20 p.m. ET, but lost as much as 6.9% earlier in the day. The move comes as the S&P 500 ( ^GSPC -0.39%) and Nasdaq Composite ( ^IXIC -0.54%) lost 0.8% and 1.1%, respectively.

Retail investors bought a net $562 million of Nvidia stock on Monday, the largest single-day inflow in at least 10 years, VandaTrack said.

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.

Since the start of 2023, Nvidia 's (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock has gained an astronomical 906% as of the time of writing. It's also right around its all-time high right now, but these two facts may scare some investors off. The common thought is, "Nvidia has risen so much already; how can it increase more?"

Nvidia stock is losing ground today amid multiple bearish catalysts related to the DeepSeek R1 artificial intelligence ( AI) model that was released last week. For starters, investors are weighing the possibility that DeepSeek's new AI signals a significantly weaker demand outlook for Nvidia's advanced AI processors than previously expected.

DeepSeek just shook up the artificial intelligence (AI) world in the biggest way since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in late 2022. The Chinese company's new R1 large language model (LLM) reportedly matches or beats OpenAI's o1 model on some benchmarks.

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Timothy Arcuri, an analyst at UBS, said: “The sheer magnitude of the moves in stocks like Nvidia, Broadcom and Marvell [on Monday] strike us as overdone and may generally look like a buying opportunity in hindsight once the dust settles.”

US chipmaker Nvidia has suffered the largest stock market slump in history after the emergence of an advanced Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) model raised doubts about its technology.

U.S. stocks recovered some ground Tuesday morning after getting hammered by fears over China's DeepSeek AI model built on a shoestring budget.

The tech giants are keeping capital spending plans in line as DeepSeek raises questions about future computing needs.