In this article, we will take a look at 11 Hot AI Stocks to Buy Right Now.
There has been a significant investment in artificial intelligence recently, with data from CB Insights revealing that around 50% of venture capital funds were allocated to AI start-ups in the first half of 2025. That said, investor apprehension regarding an AI bubble is at “fever pitch,” with concerns mounting that a spike in AI investment would trigger a collapse akin to the dot-com bust of the 2000s.
Some market analysts state these fears aren’t unjustified. According to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology study, 95% of companies that have made investments in GenAI have not yet seen any financial gains. Additionally, reports from The New York Times that Meta is considering “downsizing” its AI section and that certain AI executives are “expected to leave” have alarmed some investors.
As with the dot-com bubble, however, if an AI bubble bursts, there will probably be some very big winners and some big losers. In a similar vein, the broader market has had a wild time recently. The Fed cut its benchmark overnight lending rate by a quarter percentage point on September 17, the first rate cut since December, which boosted stocks this week. Although the market had anticipated the move, stocks saw a volatile session as a result of Fed Chair Jerome Powell characterizing the decision as a “risk management cut” at his press conference.
Our Methodology
For this list, we utilized stock screeners to list down AI stocks with an average volume surpassing 3 million, indicating strong trade movements in the market. Additionally, we have mentioned the hedge fund sentiment around each stock, as of Q2 2025.
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11. CoreWeave Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV)
Avg Volume: 21.57 million
Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 29
CoreWeave Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) ranks among the best hot AI stocks to buy right now. On September 16, Cantor Fitzgerald restated its Overweight rating and $116 price target for CoreWeave Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV). The firm cited CoreWeave’s latest 8-K filing, which announced a fresh agreement under its current Master Services Agreement (MSA) with NVIDIA.
The agreement, which has an initial deal value of $6.3 billion, gives NVIDIA access to any remaining unsold cloud computing capacity from CoreWeave Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV). As long as the MSA is in effect, NVIDIA must buy the remaining capacity by April 13, 2032.
Cantor Fitzgerald pointed out that, excluding any additional increases signed in the third quarter, the $6.3 billion order would raise CoreWeave’s backlog by 21% from $30.1 billion at the end of the second quarter of 2025.
CoreWeave Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) operates a cloud platform that scales, supports, and accelerates GenAI. It creates the infrastructure that supports computational workloads in companies.
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