Monday, January 27th 2025

Tech Stocks Brace for a DeepSeek Haircut, NVIDIA Down 12% in Pre-market Trading
The DeepSeek open-source large language model from China has been the hottest topic in the AI industry over the weekend. The model promises a leap in performance over OpenAI and Meta, and can be accelerated by far less complex hardware. The AI enthusiast community has been able to get it to run on much less complex accelerators such as the M4 SoCs of Mac minis, and gaming GPUs. The model could cause companies to reassess their AI strategy completely, perhaps pulling them away from big cloud companies, toward local acceleration on cheaper hardware; and cloud companies themselves would want to reconsider their orders of AI GPUs in the short-to-medium term.
All this puts the supply chain of AI acceleration hardware in a bit of a spot. The NVIDIA stock is down 12 percent in pre-market trading as of this writing. Microsoft and Meta Platforms also faced a cut, shedding over 3% each. Alphabet lost 3% and Apple 1.5%. Microsoft, Meta and Apple are slated to post their quarterly earnings this week. Companies within NVIDIA's supply chain, such as ASML and TSMC, also saw drops, with ASML and ASM International losing 10-14% in European pre-trading.
Sources:
LiveMint, The Kobeissi Letter
All this puts the supply chain of AI acceleration hardware in a bit of a spot. The NVIDIA stock is down 12 percent in pre-market trading as of this writing. Microsoft and Meta Platforms also faced a cut, shedding over 3% each. Alphabet lost 3% and Apple 1.5%. Microsoft, Meta and Apple are slated to post their quarterly earnings this week. Companies within NVIDIA's supply chain, such as ASML and TSMC, also saw drops, with ASML and ASM International losing 10-14% in European pre-trading.
102 Comments on Tech Stocks Brace for a DeepSeek Haircut, NVIDIA Down 12% in Pre-market Trading
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And it translated to be out of work for almost 2 years.
Now I wonder if Dear Leader Jensen knew about this, since he has been selling his personal stocks like crazy lately.
But no Jensen didn't know when the pop will be.
it was to be expected it was going to be post jan 20 and I kinda doubt this is the actual pop
"Again, just to emphasize this point, all of the decisions DeepSeek made in the design of this model only make sense if you are constrained to the H800; if DeepSeek had access to H100s, they probably would have used a larger training cluster with much fewer optimizations specifically focused on overcoming the lack of bandwidth."
stratechery.com/2025/deepseek-faq/
DeepSeek #1 on App Store, shocks AI experts, sends shares tumbling
And by losing, I mean spending fake Azure Credits. But no one seems to notice or care. MSFT has been avoiding the loss today for some reason.
The levels of fakeness in AI is epic. And people don't even realize it yet. This ain't a bubble pop yet. More people need to realize the incredible depths of fakeness first and far more companies need to collapse over it.
If CoPilot only costs 50cents/month to replicate instead of $50/month to run, will Microsofts O365 really be able to get the growth they want out of AI enabled Office?
If it only costs 50cents/month to run CoPilot then that's also 100x less Azure needed to run everyone's O365.
And if it costs 100x less to make OpenAI like LLMs, then Microsofts rather sizable investment into nuclear power plants (www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5120581/three-mile-island-nuclear-power-plant-microsoft-ai) is looking like a waste.
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Or to put it differently: if AI is going to be 1/100th the cost than expected, how much is Microsofts $13 Billion bet on OpenAI worth right now? Maybe only $0.13 Billion if the competitions software really is this much better.
Or maybe these DeepSeek people are lying. But either way, people are asking questions today and reevaluating 365 and Azure and how it relates to AI.
Or it could be normal diversification??
I'm really glad here, that it's influencing Nvidia the most. They have basically been using AI to inflate everything they do...and the 50x0 series is looking to be selling itself primarily off of AI. With both of those things in the rearview hopefully Nvidia and AMD can start competing and delivering cost conscious hardware...because slapping AI on the thing will no longer let you charge and additional few hundred dollars with no questions asked.
But the big problem with many absurdly overvalued companies(Nvidia, Apple, Amazon, MS, Alphabet, Meta, Tesla, etc.) is that if a tiny fraction of the total shares where put on the market the market value would plummet.
(That's why you should probably not invest directly in any such company, but rather through funds…) Both are absolutely bubbles, but it's far too early to determine if anything is burst yet (I suspect it's not). But if this "AI" craze isn't calming down anytime soon, we will be eventually facing a burst that would make the Dot-com bubble look small by comparison.
As for the crypto bubble bursting; there have been many small bursts, but there are still way too many fools to keep the next Ponzi scheme going, so I fear it's nowhere near the end yet. It's mostly smoke and mirrors at this point.
But sooner or later investors are going to demand real returns from their massive investments, and when this fails to deliver, that's when it will probably actually burst. The amount of resources pulled into this field is unlike anything I've ever seen, and I believe it's far beyond any realistic scenario for expected returns.
Ooo the irony of it all.