
Investors hammered technology stocks on Monday, sending the likes of Nvidia (NVDA.O) and Oracle (ORCL.N) plummeting, as the emergence of a low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence model cast doubts on Western companies’ dominance in this sector.
Startup DeepSeek last week launched a free assistant it says uses less data at a fraction of the cost of incumbent players’ models, possibly marking a turning point in the level of investment needed for