US chip giant Nvidia suffered a record wipeout on Monday after Chinese startup DeepSeek upended the tech sector — and the rout cost its CEO Jensen Huang more than $20 billion in a single day. DeepSeek said it built its new AI model in just two months for less than $6 million – a fraction of the training costs of its US rivals – and without access to Nvidia’s powerful,

CEO Jensen Huang’s net worth plunged $18 billion Monday as the chipmaker’s stock continues to free fall. Huang was worth $106.3 billion as of Monday morning, down nearly 15%, according to Forbes Real-Time Billionaires list.

Investors soured on some tech stocks like Oracle and Nvidia as China’s DeepSeek sparked questions about the massive AI spending bolstering America’s biggest companies moving forward.