U.S.-listed shares of tech giants are gaining some lost ground this morning after a China-based startup shocked the AI world with a powerful LLM. Yesterday, shockwaves rippled across the American tech industry after news spread over the weekend about a powerful new large language model (LLM) from China called DeepSeek.

The emergence of China-based AI app DeepSeek sent shares plummeting on Monday for many U.S. tech giants, including chipmaker Nvidia and AI-backer Microsoft. Nvidia, which helped catapult market wide gains in recent years,

Nasdaq posted its biggest one-day percentage drop since Dec. 18 on Monday as a low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence model prompted a steep selloff in U.S. chipmakers. AI leader Nvidia sank 17%, and it erased about $593 billion in stock market value,

DeepSeek released an open-source artificial intelligence model in December, saying it took only two months and less than $6 million to create it.