Investors pump billions into China as DeepSeek unleashes AI bulls

Alex GluyasMarkets reporter

Updated Feb 18, 2025 – 2.19pm, first published at 11.55am

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This year’s blistering rally in Chinese stocks is tipped to intensify as the emergence of DeepSeek turbocharges the country’s adoption of artificial intelligence, triggering a flood of money into the sharemarket.

That’s according to Goldman Sachs, which now sees the benchmark MSCI China Index jumping 16 per cent from current levels to 85 points over the next 12 months, and the CSI 300 Index rallying 19 per cent to 4700 over the same period.

Alex Gluyas is a markets reporter based in our Melbourne newsroom.