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DeepSeek stirs nationalistic fever in the middle of Sino-U.S. rivalry

AI-related stocks in China and Hong Kong rise

By Samuel Shen and Jiaxing Li

SHANGHAI/HONGKONG, setiathome.berkeley.edu Feb 6 (Reuters) - Chinese investors are hurrying into AI-related stocks, wagering the synthetic intelligence advance of home-grown start-up DeepSeek will cause a boom in the sector and provide the effort to China in an intensifying Sino-U.S. technology war.

Feverish buying has pumped up shares of Chinese chipmakers, software designers and data centre operators in the middle of patriotic calls for an upward repricing of Chinese possessions as U.S. President Donald Trump charges a trade war with fresh tariffs.

“DeepSeek’s development reveals Chinese engineers are innovative and capable of innovations that can take on Silicon Valley,” said China Europe Capital Chairman Abraham Zhang. “It has likewise stirred nationalistic fever in capital markets.”

DeepSeek stunned Silicon Valley and rocked Wall Street late last month with the announcement of a competitive big language model that was ostensibly more affordable to establish than those of big-spending U.S. leaders such as OpenAI and Meta.

The event was explained as a watershed moment by Huaxi Securities analysts and has given that seen cash gushing into AI-related stocks in mainland China and Hong Kong.

The Hang Seng AI Index has leapt more than 5% today while indices tracking chipmakers and IT firms surged more than 11%, assisting consistent the Hong Kong market as the U.S. included a 10% tariff to Chinese imports.

On the mainland, investors returning from a week-long Lunar New Year holiday on Wednesday likewise stacked into the tech sector, enhancing shares of firms in AI, semiconductors, big data and robotics.

“2025 will witness a surge of AI applications,” said Zhou Yingbo, head of financial investment at Futures Vessel Capital.

“We’re really optimistic about chances produced by this revolution,” Zhou said, anticipating widespread adoption of both AI hardware and software by customers and companies alike.

Likely recipients consist of Nancal Technology, Suzhou MedicalSystem Technology, Doctorglasses Chain, Bestechnic Shanghai and Ucap Cloud Details Technology, Huaxi Securities said.

The DeepSeek development shows how the U.S. effort to slow China’s technological advancement “has actually backfired, instead speeding up Chinese AI development,” TF Securities said in a client note. It required a repricing of Chinese technology stocks which have underperformed U.S. peers in recent years in the middle of increased regulative examination and geopolitical stress.

The emergence of DeepSeek could prompt even tighter U.S. technology export constraints however that will just invite more federal government assistance and turbo-charge development, the brokerage said.

Goldman Sachs anticipates Chinese breakthroughs in AI development and application “could materially modify” the stock market trajectory.

The Wall Street bank approximates AI-enabled efficiency improvement might increase incomes by 2% for Chinese equities, while brighter development prospects might result in a 20% appraisal uplift for Chinese firms, narrowing the space with U.S. peers.

China’s “tough tech” stocks trade at a rate representing 23.6 times earnings, while “soft tech” shares trade at 13.9. The price-to-earnings ratio of the greatest U.S. tech stocks, the so-called “Mag 7”, is 31, revealed the Goldman report dated Feb 4.

DeepSeek has actually produced such a buzz that Chinese companies up and down the AI worth chain, from chipmakers to cloud provider are exploring possibilities with the startup’s low-cost services, including heavyweights such as Huawei Technologies, Alibaba and Baidu.

Yi Xiangjun, partner of Shenzhen Black Stone Asset Management, said he is “all in” China’s AI and tech stocks, wagering large, successful companies will emerge in what he called an epoch-making transformation.

However, Wang Zhuo, partner of Shanghai Zhuozhu Investment Management, was more cautious.

“Many companies are still far method from generating make money from AI … As a worth investor, I do not feel great putting money into these stocks.” ( by Samuel Shen and Jiaxing Li