We recently published a list of Top 10 AI Stocks Buzzing on Latest News. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) stands against other top AI stocks buzzing on latest news.

Investors are continuing to assess the impact of new LLMs in the AI industry. X. Eyeé, CEO of AI consulting firm Malo Santo and senior policy advisor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, said in a recent program on CNBC that the DeepSeek breakthrough in China has changed the dynamics of the AI race. She believes AI development is no longer limited to the companies with the “largest pockets.”

“I mean, the world has long looked to the United States to be the leader in artificial intelligence, but these recent model releases from China have demonstrated its ability to leapfrog and catch up with us tech giants and achieve groundbreaking results without the luxury of advanced hardware, which is ultimately challenging everything that we thought was necessary for innovation in the AI space. See, what DeepSeek represents is that AI innovation isn’t necessarily driven by the companies with the largest pockets or the fanciest hardware, but that collaborative development approaches can actually end up providing market-leading technologies.”

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Alphabet Inc Class C (NASDAQ:GOOG)

Number of Hedge Fund Investors: 160

Commenting on Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG)’s latest quarterly results, Tim Seymour, the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Seymour Asset Management, said that he’s worried about the company’s Cloud business which he called the “bread and butter” of the search engine giant.

“I think this was all about Cloud. I think this is weak, this is bread and butter. Because, you know, I think about adtech, I think where they are in digital ad, and I think they’re dominant, and I think they’re going to continue to grow, take market share, and improve margin. So I guess I’m less worried about that than I am the bread and butter, and it gets down to some commoditization and a very, very crowded Cloud space.

I do like the operating margin at 32%. I think overall margins for this company are getting better—that’s good news. And I think everyone just hit it. I mean, the stock moved 40 points, or about 35%, from Thanksgiving into the print. It was priced to perfection, even though it wasn’t expensive. I mean, what’s interesting about Google, and this might be a negative, is that in the run we’ve had with mega-cap tech stocks, this stock is absolutely in line with its 10-year PE.”

Alphabet shares slipped following the company’s latest quarterly results. The market was spooked by the massive $75 billion Capex guidance for 2025. However, GOOG bulls believe these investments will pay off. The company needs to spend to maintain its dominance in search. Its Gemini model has an edge over competitors because of the huge ecosystem Alphabet already has. For the end user, it’s easier to switch from traditional search to Gemini instead of moving to a completely new app like ChatGPT or Perplexity. So far AI competition hasn’t dented the company’s search revenue.

Merion Road Capital Management stated the following regarding Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) in its Q4 2024 investor letter:

“Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG): We have held GOOG for a long time (since 2018) on the basis of its immense business quality paired with an undemanding valuation, improving treatment of minority shareholders, and multiple options for value creation. Recently we have seen Alphabet bashed for losing the AI race to now heralded for its progress. I remain excited about their prospects with several near-term, mid-term, and long-term tailwinds. Near-term, Google Cloud continues its rapid growth and their latest large language model, Gemini 2.0, appears to have made significant progress to better serve consumer needs and improve GOOG’s other product offerings. Mid-term, Waymo is on the cusp of becoming a real value driver for the company; there are abundant articles discussing Waymo stealing share from the ride-share economy and launching in new geographies. Long-term, GOOG’s recently announced quantum computing chip positions it well for a future (many, many years away) where computing process are fundamentally different than today. All of these options are embedded in a company that already has an established and dominant earnings stream.”

Overall, GOOG ranks 4th on our list of top AI stocks buzzing on latest news. While we acknowledge the potential of GOOG, our conviction lies in the belief that under the radar AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns, and doing so within a shorter timeframe. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than GOOG but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.

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