U.S.-listed shares of tech giants are gaining some lost ground this morning after a China-based startup shocked the AI world with a powerful LLM. Yesterday, shockwaves rippled across the American tech industry after news spread over the weekend about a powerful new large language model (LLM) from China called DeepSeek.

Artificial intelligence stocks got a major shake-up when Nvidia (NVDA), the leader in AI chips, notched their largest single-day plunge since 2020. On Jan. 27, Nvidia shares dropped by 17%, wiping out an astonishing $589 billion from Nvidia’s market capitalization.

A Chinese company’s cut-rate computing solution has upended the tech world, with companies, investors and even the U.S. government trying to understand what it means for the future.