Shares of Nvidia Corp. notched another gain Tuesday, as investors have been given more reason to believe the perceived threat from DeepSeek’s artificial-intelligence platform is overblown.

While the demand is there, it's clear that's not the sole reason why Nvidia's RTX 50 series is impossible to find in stores. Many retailers received fairly low stock quantities, as Nvidia reportedly experienced manufacturing issues.

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.

There’s more good news. The South Korean government announced plans to acquire 10,000 graphics-processing units as it looks to build a national AI computing center. That include

The stock soared about 85% over the last year, yet it is lower than it was four months ago, even as the S&P 500 has a total return of about 4% in that time. But now it looks like there are over 300 billion more reasons to buy the stock.