Elon Musk doubts DeepSeek's claims about their AI capabilities, suspecting they possess significantly more Nvidia GPUs than disclosed. This comes amid

If anything, potentially less demand for Nvidia’s AI training chips could actually benefit the EV manufacturer.

CEO Elon Musk seemed to agree with CEO of Scale AI Alexandr Wang suggesting that China's DeepSeek has about 50,000 H100 Nvidia's (NASDAQ:NVDA) chips, which they can't talk about due to U.S. export controls.

DeepSeek has disrupted the foundations of major American companies such as Nvidia, OpenAI, Google, and Meta, all of whom have dominated the AI sector for years.

Elon Musk reacted to a post that claimed that DeppSeek has about 50,000 Nvidia H100s that they can't talk about because of the US export controls that

Elon Musk said there is a path for Tesla to become worth more than the next five most valuable companies combined. That’s Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon.com, and Alphabet. Their market values total roughly $15 trillion.

Then there is the hype question. Since Chat GPT set off the AI gold rush in late 2022, Nvidia has been the ultimate “picks and shovel” play. But like investment in the early days of the internet, the AI boom has so far been based more on the belief that it will change everything than hard evidence that it can generate returns.

Altman and Musk were OpenAI’s founding co-chairs in 2015, but their relationship has devolved into name-calling and lawsuits.

The electric car company run by Elon Musk is facing increasing competition ... NASA said it would do that “as soon as practical.” Nvidia’s sharp turn of fortunes illustrates much deeper ...

Elon Musk has questioned the microchip claims made by DeepSeek AI, a fast-emerging player in the artificial intelligence pool, which is starting to challenge the United States' control over the AI industry. Newsweek has reached out to DeepSeek via email and Musk via X's press department for comment.

Elon Musk doesn’t miss an opportunity to take a dig at OpenAI — even when the news item in question is supposed to be favorable to President Trump. Just a few hours after yesterday’s White House presser on The Stargate Project wrapped up, Musk posted on X that “they don’t actually have the money.”