Monday's DeepSeek sell-off may have rattled investors who picked up shares of a top semiconductor play at any time over the past few weeks. Undoubtedly, it's not hard to imagine many new retail investors panicking in the face of Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock's sudden double-digit percentage decline.

According to a paper authored by the lab, the DeepSeek-R1 model outperforms cutting-edge models such as OpenAI’s o1 and Meta’s Llama AI models across multiple benchmarks.

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has soared over the last two years, thanks to its dominance in artificial intelligence (AI) -- a market set to reach $1 trillion by the end of the decade from about $200 billion today.