Key Takeaways Nvidia shares tumbled Wednesday, dashing hopes for a quick recovery from losses earlier in the week amid concerns about competitiveness of American AI firms and their spending on artificial intelligence.

Chip stocks in the U.S. and Europe rose on Wednesday for a second straight day, recovering from a punishing selloff triggered by China's low-cost DeepSeek artificial intelligence tool at the start of the week.

Nvidia, in contrast, has nearly everything AI investors want. It's profitable, it has plenty of room to grow as AI investments expand, and its shares are relatively well priced with a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 34, compared to the tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 's 26.4. For all of those reasons, Nvidia looks like the far better AI stock right now.

The Chinese AI service has Wall Street worried that it will be cheaper than expected to develop models. But as chip stocks sink, some analysts see a silver lining.

Nvidia’s stock is off to a positive start after a wild Monday. Shares of the chipmaking giant were recently up about 2%, easily outpacing the slight rise in the S&P 500. The first hours of Tuesday’s session followed a start to the week that marked Nvidia’s (NVDA) worst day in years,