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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

How Elon Musk built an AI moat around Tesla impervious to DeepSeek’s ‘Sputnik moment’

Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives to speak during a Donald Trump inauguration event at Capital One Arena on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Credit: Christopher Furlong—Getty Images)
  • Tesla’s AI focus on robotaxis and autonomous driving, what Musk refers to as “real-world AI,” means it doesn’t risk being disrupted by DeepSeek chatbot R1, argue analysts at investment bank Piper Sandler. If anything, potentially less demand for Nvidia’s AI training chips could be a benefit.

When DeepSeek’s impact obliterated a trillion dollars of value collectively from U.S. equity markets, artificial intelligence stocks found themselves at ground zero. 

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