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What we’ll cover today
📝 Nvidia loses record $589 billion as China’s DeepSeek disrupts global markets.
📰 Reid Hoffman’s Manas AI raises $24.6M, aiming to revolutionize cancer drug discovery.
📷 6 AI resources
⚡ Nvidia shares plunged 17%, erasing $589 billion in market value—the largest single-company loss in history.
⚡ Chinese AI app DeepSeek-R1 soared to the top of Apple’s App Store, rattling US markets and raising questions about dominance in the AI race.
⚡ Energy firms linked to AI demand also sank, with Constellation Energy Corp dropping 21%.
A ‘Sputnik moment’ for stocks? DeepSeek’s rise signals shifting AI dominance and exposes vulnerabilities in the US equity market. Experts warn against overconfidence in tech valuations and reassess the assumptions driving AI investments.
⚡ Manas AI, co-founded by LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman focuses on AI-powered drug discovery for breast cancer, prostate cancer, and lymphoma.
⚡ The startup secured $24.6M in seed funding from Hoffman, General Catalyst, and Greylock.
⚡ Manas AI will design molecules with AI and test them in wet labs, leveraging Microsoft Azure for cloud computing and AI expertise.
This move signals AI search market heating up as startups race to monetize through enterprise solutions
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