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AI computing company whose GPUs and systems power much of the frontier model buildout.
NVIDIA sits underneath the model race: training, inference, and data-center capacity all depend on accelerated compute.
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In late January 2025, DeepSeek's low-cost R1 reasoning model triggered a global tech-stock sell-off, contributing to a roughly $600 billion single-day drop in Nvidia's market value.[2]
NVIDIA announced the Blackwell platform on March 18, 2024.[1]
NVIDIA framed Blackwell as a platform for building and running real-time generative AI on trillion-parameter large language models.[1]
NVIDIA said Blackwell could run real-time generative AI on trillion-parameter models at up to 25 times less cost and energy than its predecessor.[1]
Published 2024-03-18. Retrieved 2026-06-07.
NVIDIA press release announcing the Blackwell platform at GTC.
Published 2025-01-27. Retrieved 2026-06-06.
Reuters reported that DeepSeek sparked a global AI sell-off, Nvidia shares fell just under 17%, and about $592.7B was shaved off Nvidia's market value on Jan. 27, 2025. Secondary source appropriate for market reaction.