"In our view this is a correction and not the start of a sustained bear market," Goldman Sachs said. DeepSeek sparked a $1 trillion market rout on Monday.

The rest of the stock market could finally catch up to the Magnificent Seven this year—and it has nothing to do with DeepSeek. The gap in earnings growth between the Magnificent Seven and the rest of the benchmark index should compress from roughly 8 percent to less than 5 percent by the end of 2025,

A Chinese company’s cut-rate computing solution has upended the tech world, with companies, investors and even the U.S. government trying to understand what it means for the future.

China’s DeepSeek surprised the technology world this week by releasing an AI model that almost matched the performance of American rivals while requiring far less computing power. The news sparked a sell-off in U.S. stocks as investors fretted that the need for powerful computers to train and operate AI models may be overblown.

U.S. tech stocks plunged on Monday, amid a wider market sell-off. The culprit: DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company that last week introduced a new — and low-cost — model into the red-hot AI tech market.

Monday’s trillion-dollar stock-market wipeout will be remembered as an opportunity to scoop up shares of some of the most valuable U.S. companies at a discount, according to a team of equity strategists at Goldman Sachs Group.

As we’ve written numerous times elsewhere, the cause of Monday’s DeepSeek market wobble were fears that good-enough LLMs won’t cost billions to build and run, and that supplying them won’t be a winner-take-all competition.