Product02.03.25Tom Müffelmann

DeepSeek’s Shockwave: How AI Leaders Are Reacting

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Last week’s announcements from DeepSeek – high-performance large language models at a fraction of the cost of its American counterparts – sent ripples through the global markets and altered conventional wisdom on the investment required to develop and deploy AI.


The Task

In seconds, Hebbia simultaneously assessed DeepSeek’s impact on ALL companies reporting earnings last week.


The Results

From 300+ Earnings Calls, 21 mentioned DeepSeek.

  • Diversified Financials - 5/35 - Predominantly Neutral
  • Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 4/12 - Predominantly Neutral
  • Software & Services - 2/17 - Predominant Positive

Management sentiment on DeepSeek from AI leaders across closed-source, open-source, and infrastructure spaces.

  • Microsoft - Positive - “Optimization means AI will be much more ubiquitous…for a hyperscaler like us, a PC platform provider like us, this is all good news”

  • Meta - Neutral - “I don't know – it's probably too early to really have a strong opinion on what this means for the trajectory around infrastructure and CapEx and things like that”

  • ASML - Positive - “Lower cost of AI could lead to more applications. Increased applications will result in greater demand over time… opportunity for heightened chip demand”

Although AI solutions appear to be becoming more cost-effective, all three companies are preserving or expanding their already significant investment in AI.


The Process

1. Start Broad 

Hebbia’s flagship product, Matrix, automatically ingested and analyzed 300+ earnings calls using its preconfigured Earnings Call Workflow.

With its infinite effective context window, Matrix processed all transcripts in parallel, deriving 12,000+ unique insights in seconds.

It then filtered results by CIGS industry groups and identified companies that mentioned DeepSeek.

2. Go Deep

Matrix goes beyond summaries to provide actionable insights that are about the data, not just in the data.

It analyzed sentiment around DeepSeek mentions for every company, highlighting key quotes as supporting evidence.

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