The S&P 500 ( ^GSPC) gained 0.3%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) also rose 0.3% The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite ( ^IXIC) hovered near the flatline, dragged on by falls for Nvidia ( NVDA) and Microsoft ( MSFT) of 3% and 6%, respectively.

Stock markets are slowly beginning to bounce back from Monday's AI stock-driven selloff, as investors recover from their shock over the "Sputnik moment," the discovery that China has an AI startup that can build large language models much,

In fact, this is a shortsighted view that misses the significant benefits that DeepSeek represents for the U.S. economy and for businesses worldwide. What’s exciting is that the

Investors aren’t ignoring the upsides of cheaper AI models despite Monday’s DeepSeek-inspired stock-market panic.

The stock market was sent reeling earlier this week as Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unleashed chaos, triggering a $1 trillion tech selloff that erased $600 billion from Nvidia’s (NVDA) market value in a single day.