2 Top Artificial Intelligence Stocks to Buy Right Now
Artificial intelligence (AI) applications will likely be a key determinant of economic growth for the next decade and beyond. However, the burgeoning AI industry is anything but static. Just last month, China's DeepSeek R1 model was a watershed moment, which showed that a top-performing large language model could be built at very low cost.The exact effect of DeepSeek on the industry is still not known today, but it does appear that AI is on its way to becoming cheaper, but also more pervasive. In that light, here are two companies that look to be in good position right now as the industry moves forward.Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has been a huge long-term winner, but has actually dramatically underperformed the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) over the past year, up just 1.5% versus the Nasdaq's 23%-plus gain. Still, there's nothing fundamentally wrong with Microsoft. The past year's underperformance merely appears to be a consolidation period after a couple of years of strong gains. Likely, there will be another period of outperformance in the future, perhaps the near future. Continue reading
Artificial intelligence (AI) applications will likely be a key determinant of economic growth for the next decade and beyond. However, the burgeoning AI industry is anything but static. Just last month, China's DeepSeek R1 model was a watershed moment, which showed that a top-performing large language model could be built at very low cost.
The exact effect of DeepSeek on the industry is still not known today, but it does appear that AI is on its way to becoming cheaper, but also more pervasive. In that light, here are two companies that look to be in good position right now as the industry moves forward.
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has been a huge long-term winner, but has actually dramatically underperformed the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) over the past year, up just 1.5% versus the Nasdaq's 23%-plus gain. Still, there's nothing fundamentally wrong with Microsoft. The past year's underperformance merely appears to be a consolidation period after a couple of years of strong gains. Likely, there will be another period of outperformance in the future, perhaps the near future.
