Key Takeaways The stocks of software companies such as Salesforce have soared this week on hopes that Chinese start-up DeepSeek's cost-efficient AI model could make AI applications significantly less expensive to develop and run.

As the global tech sector was catching up to the disruption caused by DeepSeek’s r1 AI model, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba announced its brand new Qwen 2.5 AI model on the first day of the Lunar New Year. The Qwen 2.5 is pre-trained on large-scale multilingual and multimodal data and rivals DeepSeek’s AI model.

Monday’s bloodbath in Nvidia and other AI stocks wiped out some $1 trillion from the stock market’s value.

Shares of Meta Platforms ( META 0.32%) and Salesforce ( CRM -1.65%) soared 350% and 115%, respectively, over the last two years. That price appreciation makes both companies stock-split candidates in 2025. More importantly, Wall Street is generally bullish on Meta Platforms and Salesforce, and certain analysts anticipate material upside.

Micron (NASDAQ: MU) makes memory chips and storage for phones and computers. However, these chips can also be used for data centers and it is now one of the key players in the AI business. The stock is down 24% from its peak but analysts are eyeing a massive rebound here.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies are rapidly focusing on securing funding to propel R&D, roll out products and services across diverse sectors, and create interconnected ecosystems amid fierce

A tech sell-off on Monday saw more than $1 trillion in value erased over concerns over China's DeepSeek AI app.

Netflix shot up 14.6% after it reported adding nearly 19 million subscribers during the holiday-season quarter and it topped sales and profit targets. The video streaming service’s expansion into live programming appears to be paying off as it wrapped up its best year ever with more than $40 billion in revenue.

Monday’s meltdown was a cold plunge on what had otherwise been a bull market for tech on the belief that AI would usher in a new golden age of worldwide productivity and sector-

U.S. stock indexes are drifting on Wednesday, ahead of the Federal Reserve’s upcoming decision on interest rates and after two days of disruption driven by doubts about the artificial-intelligence boom.