Brad Olsen: Infometrics Principal Economist on DeepSeek and its impact on the stock market

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Tech stocks have been taking a hammering after the debut of DeepSeek.  The Chinese tech firm has created a budget AI model said to be cheaper and more efficient than the other models on the market.  It sent the stocks of Nasdaq and NVIDIA tumbling – Nasdaq falling about 3% and NVIDIA plummeting more than 16%.  Infometrics Principal Economist Brad Olsen told Andrew Dickens that the market has already recovered about half the drop.  He says everyone is now trying to get a handle on how big AI is and the amount of money they want to invest in it.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.