Nvidia, the chip large on the coronary heart of the synthetic intelligence (AI) increase, mentioned its enterprise remained sturdy, regardless of fears of a bubble stirred by the emergence of Chinese language AI agency DeepSeek final month.
Gross sales of the agency’s chips hit greater than $39bn (£30.7bn) over the three months ended 27 January, up 74% year-on-year.
Nvidia has seen a surge of demand, as massive tech firms flip to the agency for chips that may deal with the big quantities of knowledge used to coach AI fashions.
However DeepSeek mentioned it had skilled its chatbot utilizing much less superior, and cheaper chips.
Its launch prompted a pointy sell-off in Nvidia shares earlier this month, successful felt all through the market.
Traders calmed after massive firms corresponding to Fb proprietor Meta mentioned they anticipated to proceed their present AI funding methods.
Nvidia boss Jensen Huang mentioned he was not fearful that demand would all of the sudden shift, saying that software program sooner or later could be created by machine studying that wants chips with completely different structure than the “hand-coding” of the previous.
“We all know essentially software program has modified,” he mentioned, including that it was additionally nonetheless “early days” for using AI to unfold.
Nvidia at the moment dominates the market in superior chips, making it central to the increase in AI funding at firms corresponding to Microsoft.
Its shares have surged greater than 400% during the last two years, giving the corporate a market worth of greater than $3tn.
Nvidia mentioned it was targeted on quickly constructing out manufacturing of its newest chips, generally known as Blackwell, which helped to drive a surge within the agency’s income.
The corporate’s finance chief Collette Kress mentioned its AI information centre enterprise was strongest within the US, however the agency was additionally seeing demand develop in different components of the world, pointing to investments by France and the European Union.
She mentioned demand in China – the place US commerce controls have blocked the agency from exporting sure chips – remained decrease and that the agency anticipated shipments to stay roughly on the present degree.
