Nvidia shares' 9% recovery Tuesday was the second-best day in terms of market cap added for any company ever, trailing only a record it set in July.

The superstar run for Nvidia’s stock the last few years has been astonishing. So was its tumble Monday, which caused $595 billion in wealth to vanish.

The biggest market loss in history happened, with Nvidia stock dropping 17%—and the entire internet thought this was hilarious.

Microsoft alone is projecting $80 billion of infrastructure spend for data centers in 2025; meanwhile, OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank are leading the newly announced Stargate initiative under President Trump -- a project aiming to invest $500 billion into AI frameworks over the coming years.

Nvidia, led by boss Jensen Huang (pictured), lost almost $600bn in value, after China claimed its new Deepseek AI chatbot was far more efficient than rivals

The market’s reaction was swift and severe. Investors, spooked by the potential implications of DeepSeek’s innovation, initiated a broad sell-off of AI-related stocks. NVIDIA stock wasn’t alone in this downturn. Other tech giants like Broadcom and Meta also felt the heat, experiencing notable declines in their stock prices.

Off Guard Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scrambling after a small Chinese startup called DeepSeek turned Silicon Valley upside down with its chatbot app. The company's latest R1 AI model can run circles around the competition from Meta,

Nvidia shares shed nearly $600 billion in market value Monday, marking the largest single-day loss in market history.

Since the start of 2023, Nvidia 's (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock has gained an astronomical 906% as of the time of writing. It's also right around its all-time high right now, but these two facts may scare some investors off. The common thought is, "Nvidia has risen so much already; how can it increase more?"

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Nvidia was down nine percent in pre-market trading, with Meta and Microsoft, which has also made a big bet on AI in recent years, both seeing their shares fall by four percent. Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASML was also impacted by the slump, down 9.7 percent, while Schneider Electric similarly saw its shares slide by 8.7 percent.