Several notable billionaires experienced massive hits to their fortunes Monday as the Chinese generative artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek upended the U.S. stock market, hitting the American AI leader Nvidia the hardest.
Larry Ellison, the Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) co-founder and one of the richest people on the planet, watched $22.6 billion disappear in a single day on January 27—and he didn't even have to lift a finger. The selloff was brutal,
The world’s 500 richest people, led by Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang, lost a combined $US108 billion ($172 billion) on Monday as a tech-led selloff tied to Chinese AI developer DeepSeek sent major indices plunging.
After a Chinese AI app suddenly overtook the competition from OpenAI at the weekend, the AI sector had a dark day on the stock market.
President Donald Trump announced an A.I. initiative called Stargate. During a press conference at the White House attended by SoftBank (SFTBF) CEO Masayoshi Son and Oracle founder Larry Ellison, the returning President told reporters the initiative will invest $500 billion—equivalent to almost 2 percent of the annual U.
The $500 billion Stargate project will be critical to "maintain American leadership in AI," one of the partners said in a statement.
A company called DeepSeek said it had developed a large language model that can compete with U.S. AI giants but at a fraction of the cost.
DeepSeek also uses a smaller model as opposed to that used by U.S. AI tech giants, which require more processors. Plus, they have made DeepSeek open source , which avoids the recurring fees that their U.S. competitors charge.
The $500 billion Stargate Initiative — led by Trump, OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle — is set to revolutionize U.S. AI infrastructure.
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock posted significant gains in Wednesday's trading following bullish artificial intelligence (AI) news. The company's share price closed out the day up 4.4% amid the backdrop of a 0.
Larry Ellison unveiled plans for an AI-driven cancer vaccine system that could deliver personalized treatments within 48 hours.