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Tech Stocks Tumble Sparked by China’s DeepSeek

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

Daily News, News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

P.M. Edition for Jan. 27. Some $1 trillion was erased from the U.S. stock market today as investors reacted to a cheaper, high-performing AI model from Chinese company DeepSeek. WSJ reporter Asa Fitch tells us what’s unique about the company and its technology. Plus, Journal markets reporter David Uberti joins to discuss what this might mean for tech stocks in the long run. And a top prosecutor opens a review of the Justice Department’s decision to charge Jan. 6 rioters. Alex Ossola hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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More than a trillion dollars have been erased from the U.S. stock market.

0:36.9

Tech stocks dropped after China's DeepSeek released a cheaper AI model.

0:42.0

Plus, is this the correction in AI stocks investors we're expecting?

0:45.5

Today is one of the big first pullbacks against that theme that we've seen over the last year or two.

0:52.3

And it has raised in a really big way whether the market

0:55.8

has overvalued some of these stocks. And a top prosecutor has opened a review of the Justice

1:01.2

Department's decision to charge hundreds of defendants of the January 6th riots. It's Monday,

1:06.6

January 27th. I'm Alex Sosela for the Wall Street Journal. This is the PM edition of

1:11.8

What's News, the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.

1:18.5

An artificial intelligence model from the Chinese company Deepseek has sparked a deep freakout

1:24.2

among investors. Invidia stock tumbled nearly 17%, wiping out about $593 billion from the company's market cap.

1:32.8

Makers of AI infrastructure, such as Oracle, Supermicrocomputer, and TSM also suffered deep declines.

1:39.4

That pushed several major U.S. stock indexes down, though the Dow edged nearly 0.7% higher. The NASDAQ fell about

1:46.3

3% and the S&P 500 declined about 1.5%. The reason? A Chinese artificial intelligence company

1:53.7

called DeepSeek. Last week, the company put out a paper that said it had created an accurate AI

1:58.9

model that it trained for relatively cheap,

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