We recently compiled a list of the 10 Hidden AI Stocks to Buy Now. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) stands against the other hidden AI stocks.

Collaborative Partnerships in AI

Research and development in artificial intelligence began in academia and dominated the sector until the early 2000s. Later, this pattern switched up and industry took over AI with higher investment, research, and cheaper inputs. Investments in AI by businesses are also almost always followed by commercial applications, making it a more profitable activity than academia.

While these commercial relationships flourish, many companies focus on taking collaborative approaches to partnerships, revolutionizing the AI industry. By partnering with tech giants, such companies are accelerating AI adoption, driving vertical growth through specialized models, and increasing demand for powerful computing resources. This strategic approach is shaping the future of AI.

This was recently discussed in another article, 7 Most Popular AI Penny Stocks Under $5. Here’s an excerpt from it:

“OpenAI’s approach to fostering collaborative partnerships instead of competing directly with tech giants makes it an exceptional model. Macquarie’s Fred Havemeyer (lead software equity research analyst) praised GPT 4 for its “emotional intelligence”. The growing demand for AI chips, exemplified by OpenAI’s use of over 1.7 trillion parameters in its GPT 4 model, will further help NVIDIA and other AI chip manufacturers grow.

On August 20, Bloomberg reported that OpenAI is releasing a feature that will allow businesses to use their company data to customize GPT 4 so that it can be trained on additional information for niche tasks. This is an example of letting companies fine-tune the AI model to act as a customer-service chatbot for their subject areas. According to DeepL CEO, Jarek Kutylowski, specialised AI models are essential for companies to grow vertically.”

Ever since it was founded in 2015, this research company has promoted open research and collaboration within the AI community. By sharing its findings and models, OpenAI encourages other researchers and organizations to build upon its work. This has accelerated advancements in AI and fostered a more inclusive environment.

OpenAI partnered with Microsoft so that the tech giant’s investment ($1 billion in 2019) could facilitate deep integration of OpenAI’s models into its products. Azure offers these models as compliance-ready solutions, crucial for industries requiring high data security.

This was also followed by Brazil’s partnership with the tech giant to use OpenAI to reduce judicial costs. By automating tasks, the Brazilian judiciary is expediting case processing and improving efficiency, saving costs in public sectors.

In a recent discussion on CNBC, Barton Crockett from Rosenblatt Securities and Amit Daryanani from Evercore ISI both agreed that AI is crucial for Apple’s future success. Crockett emphasized that AI offers a unique opportunity to reinvigorate The company’s device ecosystem and that consumers are increasingly valuing AI capabilities in their tech devices, and it seems to be falling behind in this regard. He suggested that partnerships with AI companies like OpenAI could help it bridge this gap and enhance its offerings.

According to reports from Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI is reportedly seeking significant new funding, potentially valuing the company at over $100 billion. The investment round, led by Thrive Capital, highlights the intensifying competition among tech giants for a dominant position in the AI industry.

In August 2024, WebProNews reported that OpenAI’s user base doubled to over 200 million in a year and its annual revenue exceeded $2 billion. Over 90% of Fortune 500 companies now use OpenAI products. However, maintaining lead requires addressing practical, safety, and user-friendliness concerns. OpenAI’s plans, including its new search engine, SearchGPT, aim to address these challenges and solidify its position. CEO Sam Altman believes SearchGPT can significantly improve search capabilities.

These instances leave us thinking about whether it’s collaboration or competition that can help AI progress fastest. As the Managing Partner at Boldsquare, Dylan Jones points out, strategic partnerships can significantly impact a company’s valuation. Tech giants’ moves indicate a calculated effort to maintain their AI leadership, even if it means blurring the lines between collaboration and competition.

In a discussion at CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’, CoreWeave co-founder and CEO, Mike Intrator, said that the demand for AI infrastructure is relentless and has been in a state of severe disequilibrium for the past 2.5 years.

He believes that the demand for Nvidia chips is skyrocketing, while the rest of the industry is trying to keep up with it, including CoreWeave. According to Intrator, CoreWeave and its clients anticipate significant growth in AI infrastructure demand. Due to limited industry capacity, clients are struggling to train and serve AI models. CoreWeave, with its ability to provide large-scale AI infrastructure, is well-positioned to meet this growing demand.

However, startups often suffer at the cost of these partnerships, failing to compete with tech giants. Still, many companies are emerging and progressing at a good pace. In this context, we are here with a list of the 10 hidden AI stocks to buy now.

Methodology

To compile our list, we reviewed media reports and watched Wall Street analysts’ interviews to determine under-the-radar and hidden AI stocks. We compiled a list of 20 potential stocks and selected the 10 most popular among elite hedge funds that are expected to be key beneficiaries of the secular trends in artificial intelligence. The stocks are ranked in ascending order of the number of hedge funds that have stakes in them, as of Q2 2024.

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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 108

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) is a leading semiconductor company that uses AI to optimize chip design, improve manufacturing processes, and develop AI-accelerated hardware and software solutions. AMD’s AI-powered technologies help drive innovation in various industries, including gaming, data centers, and scientific computing.

Microsoft recently praised its Instinct MI300X AI accelerators as the best price-to-performance AI chip. This is significant as Microsoft expects to sell up to 50 million AI-enabled personal computers soon. The Instinct MI300 Series accelerators, launched in 2023, include AI and HPC chips that compete with Nvidia’s H100.

CEO Lisa Su highlighted the growing AI traction for its Instinct MI300X solutions. As leading cloud and enterprise providers expand their offerings, demand for AMD’s AI chips is increasing. Additionally, Su noted positive demand signals for general-purpose compute in both client and server processor businesses.

In Q2, the data center revenue grew 49% year-over-year. Overall revenue growth was 8.88% for the quarter, recording a total revenue of $5.84 billion. Ryzen CPU sales increased 49% over the year. Gaming revenue declined 59% due to decreased PlayStation and Xbox sales, but Radeon 6000 GPUs saw a year-over-year sales increase.

The company’s strong results and AI investments suggest a promising future in the AI market. It will benefit greatly from the growing AI spending. 108 hedge funds held long positions in this company by June 30. Fisher Asset Management had the largest stake, valued at $3,755,355,818.

Meridian Contrarian Fund stated the following regarding Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) in its fourth quarter 2023 investor letter:

“Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) is a global semiconductor chip maker specializing in central processing units (CPUs), which are considered the core component of most computing devices, and graphics processing units (GPUs), which accelerate operations running on CPUs. We invested in 2018 when it was a mid-cap value stock plagued by many years of underperformance due to lagging technology and lost market hi share versus competitors Intel and Nvidia. Our research identified that changes and investments made by current management under CEO Lisa Su had, over several years, finally resulted in compelling technology that positioned AMD as a stronger competitor to Nvidia and that its latest products were superior to Intel’s. We invested on the the belief that AMD’s valuation at that that time did not reflect the potential for its technology leadership to generate significant market share gains and improved profits. This thesis has been playing out for several years. During the quarter, AMD unveiled more details about its upcoming GPU products for the AI market. The stock reacted positively to expectations that AMD’s GPU servers will be a viable alternative to Nvidia. Although we pared back our exposure to AMD into strength as part of our risk-management practice, we maintained a position in the stock. We believe AMD will continue to gain share in large and growing markets and is reasonably valued relative to the potential for significantly higher earnings.”

Overall AMD ranks 1st on our list of the hidden AI stocks to buy. While we acknowledge the potential of AMD as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that AI stocks hold great promise for delivering high returns and doing so within a shorter timeframe. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than AMD but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.

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