Why Vertiv (VRT) Shares Are Trading Lower Today
Shares of data center products and services company Vertiv (NYSE:VRT) fell 28.5% in the afternoon session as stocks heavily tied to the AI market took a hit after Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released a new large language model (DeepSeek-R1) that ranks competitively on key global benchmarks (coding competitions, math evaluation), uses less advanced semiconductor chips, costs significantly less to build (at $5.5 million - excluding non-compute costs), and has already achieved