After plunging 17% on Monday, Nvidia climbed almost 9% as investors rushed in to buy this historic dip in shares of the top chip maker.

Since the start of 2023, Nvidia 's (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock has gained an astronomical 906% as of the time of writing. It's also right around its all-time high right now, but these two facts may scare some investors off. The common thought is, "Nvidia has risen so much already; how can it increase more?"

Nvidia stock (NVDA) rose modestly early Tuesday. That put the shares on course to recoup a little bit of the ground lost in the previous session's 17% crash, which was fueled by concerns about China's DeepSeek.

If you follow the stock market, then you know all about the bogeyman scaring Wall Street right now: DeepSeek.

A frenzy over an artificial intelligence chatbot made by Chinese tech startup DeepSeek was upending stock markets Monday and fueling debates over the economic and geopolitical competition between the U.

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.