The arrival of the new artificial intelligence assistant developed by the Chinese company Deepseek It has caused a collapse in wall street. The most affected company? The American microchips manufacturer and the largest company in the world for stock market contribution, Nvidia, which fell on Monday by 13.3 % at the opening and deleted about 440,000 million dollars (419,104 million euros) of the market value of the market value of the multinational.
Because? For the Good results from the AI Depseek compared to its western counterpartssuch as Chatgpt, from Openai, or goal AI, of the Facebook creator.
Until now, Nvidia had been the protagonist of the greatest increases in the stock market for the triumph of artificial intelligence. This Monday, however, the sinking of the value of the company in the stock market, derived from the fear of the impact of success that Depseek can have on the demand for high -end microchips, has been accompanied by strong falls from other manufacturers as AMD (-4.77 %), ARM holdings (-8.4 %) or micron (-9.8 %), as well as the Dutch Asml (-7.2 %) and ASM International (-11 %) .
Deepseek, the most downloaded app on iPhone
The Chinese generative assistant has become this weekend the most unloaded application for iPhone, surpassing Chatgpt, according to data provided to Europa Press from the App Store.
But why is it? Depseek has captured Apple’s consumers’ attention by offering a Competitive performanceuse some lower cost chips and use a lower amount of data. All this taking into account that the model is open source (that is, the source code is freely available so that anyone can use it, modify and distribute it).
Likewise, after the launch at the beginning of the month of its Deepseek-R1 model, the Chinese company claimed to have reached a performance around the latest OpenAI models in tasks such as mathematics, language reasoning and coding, despite making an investment lower in your training.
Falls in Tokyo and Europe
In addition to the descents lived on Wall Street, China has caused other significant falls this Monday in Europe. Specifically, the Dutch manufacturer be semiconductor retreated 6 %, while the German Infineon has done more than 2 %.
In the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the price of related values also suffered important falls on Monday, with decreases of 4.90% for Tokyo Electron and 8.6% for Adevanst. The IBEX, however, has separated from the generalized decreases and has closed an increase of 0.12%.
On the other hand, energy companies also noticed the appearance of Deepseek: the price of American electricity spoke more than 23%, while Ge Vernova’s fell 17.7%and edge 16%. In addition, electric supply companies such as EATON or NRG have declined between 12% and 13%, respectively. The reason is the fear that the energy demand of AI is less than expected.