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Retail investors bought a net $562 million of Nvidia stock on Monday, the largest single-day inflow in at least 10 years, VandaTrack said.

The market reaction proved particularly severe for Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), with shares plummeting and erasing half a trillion in market cap at the time of this writing. To put this staggering figure in perspective,

Nvidia stock jumped in Europe on Wednesday, suggesting shares in the company at the heart of the artificial intelligence markets boom may recover further after a steep drop this week triggered by the rise of China's DeepSeek AI tool.

The probable impact of DeepSeek’s AI model will be the reorientation of U.S. Big Tech away from relying exclusively on their “bigger is better” competitive orientation.

Chinese startup DeepSeek has achieved what many (including experts) thought impossible: create a foundational, competitive AI model for just $5.6 million. By comparison, OpenAI’s unreleased GPT-5 (codenamed “Orion”) reportedly requires $500 million for six months of training.

What just happened to Nvidia — and the S&P 500 as a whole, really — embodies so much of the uncertainty surrounding the global AI war. But where Big Tech may be failing, opportunities are opening up for competitors and investors alike.