Bank of America reviewed 30 AI-focused software stocks, ranking the top 20 for the AI opportunity using factors like quality data and vertical solutions. Nvidia's latest earnings were boosted by demand for its GPU chips used in AI, causing the company's stock to soar over 24%. Investors should analyze potential winners based on factors that lend itself to success within the sector.
The S&P 500's 10% gain is mainly due to Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Nvidia, whose $2.9tn net worth represented 96% of the benchmark's progress in 2023.
Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI's ChatGPT helped to power their cloud apps and services and upcoming AI-powered products put them in the driver's seat. Wedbush raised their share price, hailing AI as the catalyst for competition against AWS.
C3.ai, Palantir, and UiPath are three stocks benefiting from AI hype. Nvidia recently joined the $1tn market cap milestone for tech stocks. Options traders are paying attention.
Elon Musk, world-renowned business magnate and CEO of Tesla, is making headlines since 2018. After claiming to donate $100 million to ChatGPT developer, OpenAI, reports suggested that only around $15 million was actually traced back to him. OpenAI, a non-profit software research funded by Musk, Microsoft and other investors, focuses on creating advanced AI technology. Questions have been raised about the legality of OpenAI's sudden growth and how it managed to reach a $30 billion market cap.