The popular phrase "reports of my death are greatly exaggerated," an adaptation of a famous Mark Twain quote, is a terrific way to describe Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) after the DeepSeek bombshell (more on this below) sank its stock more than 20%.

The week was a rollercoaster ride for the tech industry, with significant developments in the AI sector and the stock market. The emergence of China's DeepSeek R1 artificial intelligence model coincided with a $600 billion decline in Nvidia's market value.

Roughly two weeks ago, China-based DeepSeek unveiled its open-source large language model (LLM), known as DeepSeek-R1, which is similar to ChatGPT, the chatbot developed by OpenAI that effectively sparked AI euphoria in late 2022.

The emergence of a small Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company called DeepSeek initially put a giant hole in the U.S. stock market. Tech stocks -- particularly those connected to the AI trend -- got crushed,

Pat Gelsinger, former CEO at Intel (INTC), is not sweating over new, low-cost artificial intelligence models from Chinese startup DeepSeek. Instead, he believes that DeepSeek’s cost-effective AI model will be a net positive for the industry.