U.S.-listed shares of tech giants are gaining some lost ground this morning after a China-based startup shocked the AI world with a powerful LLM. Yesterday, shockwaves rippled across the American tech industry after news spread over the weekend about a powerful new large language model (LLM) from China called DeepSeek.

Global investors are worried the emergence of a low-cost Chinese AI model will threaten the dominance of AI leaders.

Nvidia and other U.S. AI stocks rebounded Tuesday after Monday’s DeepSeek-driven sell-off. Nvidia shares rose 9% but were still below Friday’s close. Analysts at Bernstein, Citi, Wedbush, and others suggested Monday’s sell-off was overblown,

The Nasdaq and other major indexes rebounded on Tuesday, recovering from the sharp sell-off triggered by DeepSeek’s crash, which had sent AI stocks tumbling. Nvidia, which plunged over 16% on Monday,