Jensen Huang likely had an especially bad case of the Mondays when DeepSeek came to town. Of course, as one of the richest people in the world, the cofounder of Nvidia ended up skating away virtually unscathed. But that doesn’t mean the billionaire didn’t see a dent to his wealth.
By the close of markets on Jan. 27, Huang shed $20.1 billion, as his total net worth slipped to $101 billion—per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That represents “the biggest single-day loss of value for any public company in history,” writes Forbes. Nvidia declined to comment on the matter.
