Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has gotten off to a bad start on the stock market in 2025, losing more than 10% of its value as of this writing, with Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek's launch of a low-cost but capable AI model playing a key role in the semiconductor giant's troubles.

Nvidia is well positioned to benefit over the long term and in the near term. In fact, my prediction is this hot stock won't take a pause this year and instead will soar in 2025 — thanks to this one thing. Let's check it out.

On Jan. 27, Nvidia ( NVDA -2.84%) fell 17%, erasing over $590 billion from its market cap. It marked the greatest single-day market-cap destruction for a company in U.S. stock market history. While the growth stock recovered nearly half of those losses the following day, there are still lessons to be learned from this historic market event.