Bitcoin fell 7% on Monday alongside a general slide among tech stocks including Nvidia, as China’s new artificial intelligence model sent shock waves through Silicon Valley. The original cryptocurrency dipped from $105,

U.S. tech stocks plunged on Monday, amid a wider market sell-off. The culprit: DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company that last week introduced a new — and low-cost — model into the red-hot AI tech market.

A Chinese artificial intelligence startup is rattling Silicon Valley and Wall Street after it demonstrated AI models on par with OpenAI’s — for a fraction of the cost and energy.

The Nasdaq & S&P 500 fell after Chinese startup DeepSeek shows AI can be built cheaply, sparking fears AI spending will stall. The blue-chip Dow rose.

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq ended sharply lower on Monday as Nvidia and other chipmakers sold off after surging popularity of a low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence model raised investor worries about the outlooks for current AI leaders in the United States.