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Stevie Bonifield

Nvidia's Jensen Huang has some strong words for DeepSeek — and they're probably not what you think

Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., during the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, California, US, on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. Dubbed the Woodstock festival of AI by Bank of America analysts, GTC this year is set to draw 300,000 in-person and virtual attendees for the debut of Nvidia Corp.'s B100. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

In a quarterly earnings call on Wednesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had some surprising commentary on DeepSeek R1, the controversial AI model that has exploded in popularity over the past few months.

DeepSeek is a new AI model that quickly became a ChatGPT rival after its U.S. launch in December 2024. According to the model's developers, DeepSeek was trained for far less money and with less powerful hardware than ChatGPT, yet it performs on a similar level. Those shocking claims were part of what triggered a record-breaking market value loss for Nvidia in January.

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