5 Best Trending AI Stocks to Watch in 2026 

3. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 275

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is one of the best trending AI stocks to watch in 2026. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) announced on June 22 the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform that delivers world-class supercomputers for science, bringing together NVIDIA CUDA-X™ libraries, native double-precision (FP64) performance, and the full-stack capabilities of the NVIDIA AI platform. It further stated that Vera Rubin combines the company’s complete accelerated computing stack, ranging from hardware to software and optimized scientific libraries, and accelerated AI, simulation, and data-intensive research. Management stated that the Vera Rubin platform is “designed for the era of agents to advance scientific discovery by accelerating workloads such as climate modeling, computational fluid dynamics, quantum chemistry, and energy exploration”.

In a separate development, Reuters reported on June 17 that the United States government awarded $500 million on ​Wednesday to startup SandboxAQ, which is backed by NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA), for the development of new chemicals and materials for domestic semiconductor manufacturing. This includes alternatives to PFAS and rare ‌earth imports, and the award is part of President Donald Trump’s move to allocate research funds under the CHIPS Act. Reuters also provided additional context, reporting that this effort previously funded a $150 million investment in new chip manufacturing tools and a $2 billion investment in quantum computing.

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) designs and manufactures computer graphics processors, chipsets, and other multimedia software. It operates in the Compute & Networking and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) segments.

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