India, Jan. 29 -- Chinese AI startup, DeepSeek, has achieved what was once thought impossible: creating a high-performing AI model for just $5.6 million.

A historic loss of $1 trillion in market value has sent the tech sector into a downward spiral. Disruptive news blaring from the headlines has raised the insupportable specter that billions' worth of infrastructure investment might soon become obsolete. This downturn has reverberated through the corridors of many industries, raising questions about why it's happening, what wider repercussions would follow, and whether tech investments would even have a future.

So, DeepSeek's AI model gives performance on par with leading models like OpenAI's ChatGPT but at a fraction of the cost and co...