The artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem was rocked recently by news that Chinese start-up DeepSeek had developed a cost-effective and competent large language model on the cheap. That revelation called into question the tens of billions of dollars that are being poured into the buildout of AI infrastructure,

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The popular phrase "reports of my death are greatly exaggerated," an adaptation of a famous Mark Twain quote, is a terrific way to describe Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) after the DeepSeek bombshell (more on this below) sank its stock more than 20%.

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