Most AI compute has been driven by Nvidia chips, and we obviously have a deep partnership with Nvidia and will for as long as we can see into the future,” Jassy said on a cal

Because Nvidia is still growing its revenue rapidly, using trailing earning metrics can give a false impression of where the company is headed. However, they're also useful in this case because its future had a wrench thrown into it thanks to DeepSeek's breakthrough.

DeepSeek stunned the tech world with the release of its R1 "reasoning" model, matching or exceeding OpenAI's reasoning model for a fraction of the cost.

Nvidia stock surged as the AI chipmaker began to recover from a massive decline the prior day that shaved nearly $600 billion off its market cap.

Perhaps no stock was more profoundly affected by the news from DeepSeek than Nvidia (NVDA -2.42%). In a sense, DeepSeek validated its dominance by announcing its H800 accelerators