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This may lead to greater sales of Nvidia's latest GPUs as they can maximize inferencing performance. The company's new Blackwell architecture will give test-time scaling -- a technique that allows a model to think over a problem -- on models like DeepSeek R1 "a giant boost," Nvidia says.

Nvidia's stock value has declined sharply in recent days following the emergence of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, resulting in a substantial decrease in its market capitalization. However, semiconductor industry insiders suggest that DeepSeek could accelerate the adoption of AI technologies,

DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up, is sending shock waves through the U.S. tech sector by demonstrating its latest AI assistant, which achieves performance comparable to or even surpassing some of the world's best chatbots.

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

Nvidia was one of several technology stocks hit by the emergence of Chinese AI competitor DeepSeek. An analyst sees the pullback as a buying opportunity. The NVDA Analyst: Morgan Stanley analyst Joseph Moore maintains an Overweight rating on Nvidia with a $152 price target.