No one thought the path to artificial general intelligence (AGI) would be smooth for investors, but the emergence of DeepSeek has clearly thrown a plot twist into the AI narrative. Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and other AI stocks plunged on Monday,

According to a paper authored by the lab, the DeepSeek-R1 model outperforms cutting-edge models such as OpenAI’s o1 and Meta’s Llama AI models across multiple benchmarks.