Shares of the artificial intelligence (AI) chip leader have been crushed this year, but recent developments suggest the best is yet to come.

Investors initiated a massive Nvidia stock selloff upon the release of DeepSeek, but here's why the Chinese AI might actually be bullish.

DeepSeek stunned the tech world with the release of its R1 "reasoning" model, matching or exceeding OpenAI's reasoning model for a fraction of the cost.

DeepSeek has launched an AI model that was reportedly developed with significantly less computational power than traditional methods. Shares of Nvidia are under pressure amid concerns that DeepSeek's methods may undermine demand for its high-performance GPUs.

Most AI compute has been driven by Nvidia chips, and we obviously have a deep partnership with Nvidia and will for as long as we can see into the future,” Jassy said on a cal