President Donald Trump will meet with Nvidia Corp. chief executive Jensen Huang at the White House on Friday, according to people familiar, days after a new Chinese AI model from DeepSeek sparked concern among technology industry leaders and tanked the US stock market.
The past few years have been undeniably profitable for Nvidia ( NVDA 4.43%) investors. The stock price has surged more than sevenfold over the past two years, and today, it topped the charts as the world's most valuable company in terms of market cap. The stock was up as much as 4.7% Wednesday morning. At 12:32 p.m. ET, the stock was still up 4.1%.
Nvidia dipped 0.8% after initially gaining, following a nearly 17% plunge on Monday—its worst drop since the 2020 COVID crash.
The recovery came after US chipmaker Nvidia closed up 9 per cent on Tuesday, recouping some of the heavy losses that wiped $600bn off its market capitalisation at the start of the week, when investors fretted over the threat from China’s DeepSeek to the US supremacy in artificial intelligence.
US chipmaker Nvidia dived 17 per cent, wiping off nearly USD 593 billion in the biggest market capitalisation loss in history, following a wave of selling as China's DeepSeek developed a free AI assistant using lower-cost chips.
A major tech stock sell-off ensued Monday as the debut of DeepSeek rattled investors. Nvidia, Alphabet, and Microsoft were among the biggest losers.
SoftBank's investment in OpenAI may position the company as the world's joint-second most valuable private tech firm after SpaceX.
Toronto-based bitcoin miner Bitfarms has enlisted two consultants to explore how it can transform some of its facilities to meet the growing demand for artificial intelligence data centers, it said on Friday.
Peter Oppenheimer, the chief of global equity strategy and the head of macro research for Goldman Sachs in Europe, opined that the rise of tech stocks due to the AI boom was not