The success of Deepseek hit the shares of Asian and companies, and the head of Nvidia lost $ 20 billion yesterday

The Chinese DEPSEK Laboratory, which released several artificial intelligence models almost for nothing, provoked a decline in shares of the world’s largest players associated with the industry, reports Reuters. The owners of these companies, whose conditions also decreased.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Juang. Image source: nvidia.com

The fall of NVIDIA shares the day before ended at a mark of 17 % – the company fell by $ 593 billion, and this is the largest one -day decline in the history of the stock market. On Tuesday, NVIDIA shares at auction in Frankfurt played 6 %, Oracle has risen by 3.4 %, and Palantir – 2.97 %. In general, the European market was by no means favorable to technological companies. Advantest, a manufacturer of equipment for testing chips and NVIDIA supplier, lost 9 % on the eve of another 10 %; The Japanese financial conglomerate SoftBank Group, which actively invests in the technological industry, has fallen in price by 5 %.

The Dutch manufacturer of equipment for the release of ASML chips lost 7.1 % yesterday and 1 % today; The decrease in Schneider Electric, ASM International and Infineon amounted to 1.2 % to 4.7 %. At the auction in the United States, Broadcom shares collapsed by 17.4 %, Microsoft fell 2.1 %, Alphabet holding lost 4.2 %. The Philadelphia PHLX SEMICONDUCTOR Sector Stock Index has fallen by 9.2 %, and this is the anti -record since March 2020. Before the cost of a large -scale fall of NVIDIA, the cost of the company’s securities is 60 times higher than its profit – in the S&P 500 index, this indicator is on average 22.

The situation on the market was joyless: on the wake of the boom in the capitalization of the “magnificent seven” companies (Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Tesla and Meta✴) increased by $ 10 trillion. At first, investors occupied funds to buy these shares, now they sell other assets to cover losses. The wide presence of “trading robots” – investors who make decisions based on the assessment of algorithms, aggravates the situation.

The dynamics of the Gorgeous Seven shares and other S&P 500 index companies since the beginning of 2025. Image source: Reuters.com

Deepseek’s success was also detrimental to the personal states of the owners of the largest technological companies: 500 richest people in the world lost $ 108 billion. The state of the head of Nvidia Jensen Huang was reduced by $ 20.1 billion or 20 %; The co -founder of Oracle Larry Ellison lost 12 % of his condition or $ 22.6 billion; The head of Dell Michael Dell became poorer than $ 13 billion, and the loss of the creator of the Crypto -tank Binance Changpeng Zhao amounted to $ 12.1 billion. The richest people of the technological sector lost $ 94 billion, taking on about 85 % . The NASDAQ Composite index showed a decrease by 3.1%, and S&P 500 – by 1.5%.

Prior to this, the state of the richest entrepreneurs in the technological sector against the background of the boom showed tremendous growth. From the beginning of 2023 to last Friday, January 24, 2025, Jensen Juang’s net capital increased 8 times to $ 121 billion; The state of the head of Meta✴ Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) for the same period showed an increase of 385 % to $ 229 billion; The former head of Amazon Jeff Bezos became richer by 133 % to $ 254 billion. And not all of them lost against the backdrop of the success of Deepseek: Meta✴ recovered after a fall at the beginning of the trading session, and Mark Zuckerberg increased the fortune by $ 4.3 billion; Jeff Bezos put $ 632 million in a piggy bank.