DeepSeek-R1 release
Impact
NVDA −$589B in one day
What happened
A Chinese AI lab released DeepSeek-R1, an open-source reasoning model matching GPT-4 at a fraction of the training cost. NVIDIA fell 17 percent in one session, losing $589 billion of market cap. The largest single-day value destruction in US equity history.
Context
The DeepSeek drop was not driven by a Western news headline. It was driven by Chinese AI researchers quietly publishing model weights to Hugging Face over a weekend. By Monday morning, algorithms had already re-rated the entire AI infrastructure thesis.
Era
06 · AI Algos & Nanosecond Execution
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