Perhaps no stock was more profoundly affected by the news from DeepSeek than Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). In a sense, DeepSeek validated its dominance by announcing its H800 accelerators trained its model for less than $6 million.

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.

Once the darling of Wall Street, the shares of the GPU maker are now facing the heat of rival AI model DeepSeek