Nvidia stock forecast: Is $250 still in play after recent pullback?
Nvidia is trying to stabilize after renewed doubts over AI valuations triggered a sharp pullback. The next test is whether buyers can reclaim $236.54 and put the bullish setup back on track.
Nvidia announced a new $1 billion commitment over five years to support U.S. scientific research and infrastructure. The funding and computing resources will target areas including quantum computing, healthcare, energy security, and the broader development of superintelligence for scientific research.
The initiative deepens Nvidia’s work with U.S. national laboratories and the Genesis Mission program.
The Financial Times also reported that OpenAI recently told investors its annualized revenue was approaching $50 billion at the end of September. That figure was roughly $20 billion below the approximately $70 billion cited in earlier reports.
Nvidia and other companies tied to AI infrastructure came under selling pressure as investors once again questioned how quickly rising revenue across the AI industry can justify the enormous sums being spent on data centers and computing capacity.

Nvidia needs $236.54 back to restore the bullish setup
Nvidia stock fell below key support at $236.54, triggering the bearish scenario outlined in the previous analysis.
The decline quickly reached the stated $232.29 target, but selling did not stop there, and Nvidia eventually closed at $230.48.
By premarket trading on October 9, however, the tone had begun to shift. NVDA rebounded toward $234, bringing the stock back within striking distance of the level it had just lost.
That puts $236.54 back at the center of the setup.
A successful reclaim followed by a sustained move above this level would revive the bullish case and bring psychological resistance at $250 back into focus.
If $236.54 rejects the recovery instead and the stock remains below it, sellers would retain the upper hand. In that scenario, support near $228 would become the next downside target.
Nvidia enters a more demanding phase of the AI trade
The most significant change over the last two days is not the weakening of the fundamentals of the Nvidia. Instead, the markets seem to be rethinking what they want to pay now for AI growth that will come in the future.
Nvidia continues to spend money on developing its ecosystem while demand for infrastructure is strong. The response to the numbers from OpenAI suggests that the markets become more discriminating: the investors are trying to make a difference between actual growth, potential demand, and expectation-based valuation that might take years to unfold.