Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) benefited enormously from the increased investment in chips for artificial intelligence (AI), but news out of China is causing investors to wonder if the stock's high valuation is worth it ahead of potential risks to the massive investment big tech companies have put into data center infrastructure.

Nvidia staged a moderate rebound on Tuesday, rising as much as 3%, following a 17% drop the prior day. More broadly, major US indexes rallied after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 saw sharp losses on Monday amid concerns over the Chinese AI firm DeepSeek's rapid and seemingly cost-effective advances.

DeepSeek just shook up the artificial intelligence (AI) world in the biggest way since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in late 2022. The Chinese company's new R1 large language model (LLM) reportedly matches or beats OpenAI's o1 model on some benchmarks.

US stocks and shares in chip-making giant Nvidia on Tuesday clawed back some of their losses following a steep sell-off a day earlier triggered by the sudden success of Chinese

Amid the race to compete in artificial intelligence (AI), investors interested in this sector have tended to ignore Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM). Part of the reason for this is that the longtime leader in smartphone chipsets is at a bit of a crossroads regarding its future as it seeks to diversify its product offerings away from smartphones.