One company that has been hit hard over the DeepSeek narrative is Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). With the company scheduled to report fourth-quarter and full-year 2024 earnings on Feb. 26, investors are anxiously waiting to see just how much DeepSeek may affect Nvidia's business.

When a stock price moves, so does the value of the company. In the case of Nvidia, the company's cratering share price has resulted in as much as $600 billion of lost market capitalization. On the surface, this looks horrific. However, as it often is the case with investments driven by overwhelming emotions, there's more than meets the eye.

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock has been on a remarkable run, with its dominance in AI chipmaking playing a crucial role in its ascent to becoming

Artificial intelligence (AI), especially the rise of generative AI, has provided a massive tailwind for Nvidia in recent years. The stock has delivered a return of nearly 21x since early 2020 and is up more than 80% during the last 12 months.

Nvidia is likely to be closely watching developments around ChatGPT-developer OpenAI after a consortium headed by Elon Musk offered almost $100 billion for the nonprofit.