Nvidia’s AI leadership remains intact, despite DeepSeek concerns. Read why NVDA stock’s steep drop represents a great opportunity for long-term investors.

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.

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.