Top 10 AI Stocks to Buy According to Billionaire Philippe Laffont

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6. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 282

Coatue Management Equity Stake: $918.03 Million

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is one of the top AI stocks to buy according to billionaire Philippe Laffont. On June 30, Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) confirmed the general availability of Anthropic’s Claude models in Foundry. Organizations can now run Claude within their Azure environments while leveraging Microsoft authentication, billing, and governance controls.

Claude Models in Microsoft Foundry are hosted in Azure infrastructure powered by Nvidia’s GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs. The deployments follow a partnership among Microsoft, Nvidia, and Anthropic, covering Claude’s availability on Nvidia-accelerated computing.

Enterprises will be able to build through the existing Microsoft Azure account. Teams will also build agentic applications that run their work with Claude in an environment they already operate in. It is an important step for customers looking to build agentic applications and plan to move from AI experimentation to production.

Microsoft acknowledges that Anthropic remains the seller and operator of Claude models in Microsoft Foundry. It also acts as an independent data processor for prompts and outputs. Foundry Agent Service will also use Claude as a reasoning core for multi-step planning, tool use, and task execution across various enterprise systems.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) integrates artificial intelligence across its entire business ecosystem. Their AI operations span three primary pillars: AI Infrastructure & Cloud Services, Enterprise & Personal Productivity, and Fundamental AI Research.

While we acknowledge the potential of MSFT to grow, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and have limited downside risk. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than MSFT and that has 100x upside potential, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.

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