Institutional reports show deepseek stock price holding a 12% foreign ownership rate, up from 9% last quarter. This increase underscores growing international interest in AI development firms amid shifting tech supply chains. In March, DeepSeek surpassed 16.5 million visits . “[F]or March, DeepSeek is in second place, despite seeing traffic drop 25% from where it was in February, based on daily visits,” David Carr, editor at Similarweb, told TechCrunch. It still pales in comparison to ChatGPT, which surged past 500 million weekly active users in March. Contrast the Chinese scenario with the U.S. AI industry, which is already dominated by Big Tech and well-funded “hectocorns,” such as OpenAI. With a valuation already exceeding $100 billion, AI innovation has focused on building bigger infrastructure utilizing the latest and fastest GPU chips, to achieve ever larger scaling in a brute force manner, instead of optimizing the training and inference algorithms to conserve the use of these expensive compute resources. Big Tech and its investors subscribe to the same “big and bigger” mentality, in pursuit of ever-rising valuations and a self-fulfilling loop of perceived competitive advantages and financial returns. Culturally, some argue that even recent “scrappy, disruptive startups,” such as OpenAI a couple of years ago, have already “ matured into the kind of big, connected firms that get caught on their back foot by faster-moving rivals.” At $42.88, deepseek stock price trades above its 50-day moving average for the first time in six weeks. This technical setup is attracting medium-term investors seeking confirmation of a trend reversal in the broader NASDAQ AI components index.