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The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq hit over one-week lows on Monday, as the surging popularity of a low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence model knocked shares of chipmaker Nvidia and other companies benefiting from investments into the technology. Chinese startup DeepSeek has rolled out a free assistant it says uses cheaper chips and less data, seemingly challenging a widespread bet in financial markets that AI will drive demand along a supply chain from chipmakers to data centers. Nvidia, whose chips are the top choice for powering AI applications, dropped 11.7%, while a gauge of semiconductor stocks dropped 6.5%.
The business intelligence and Bitcoin-focused company MicroStrategy Incorporated (NASDAQ:MSTR) shares are trading lower on Monday. The company disclosed plans to offer 2.5 million shares of its Series A Perpetual Strike Preferred Stock in a public offering. The company expects to use proceeds for general corporate purposes, including bitcoin acquisitions and working capital. MicroStrategy’s perpetual strike preferred stock carries a $100 per share liquidation preference and will accrue fixed-rat
Shares of memory chips maker Micron (NYSE:MU) fell 10.4% in the morning 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 evaluations), uses less advanced semiconductor chips, costs significantly less to build (at $5.5 million - excluding non-compute costs), and has already achieved strong adoption after top
Nvidia (NVDA) stock plunged 11% Monday morning after Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek’s latest model raised questions about American competitiveness in the AI space.