Spending on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure has been solid over the past couple of years, and that trend is expected to continue in 2025 as well, with market research firm IDC forecasting that the total outlay on AI could hit an impressive $227 billion in the new year.

Artificial intelligence continued to be a driving force behind stock market returns in 2024. Here are some of the stocks that have benefited the most.

Equity analyst Dan Ives has made a quite a few prescient calls in his career. In the last year alone, he predicted the Nasdaq Composite would hit 20,000, and he remained bullish on Palantir despite widespread skepticism.

True, Amazon's top line isn't growing as fast as Nvidia's. In the third quarter, Amazon's revenue increased 11% year over year to $158.9 billion. The company's net income of $15.3 billion was up 54.5% from the year-ago period.

Rather than focusing on quarterly earnings beats or temporary market sentiment, my investment strategy centers on identifying companies that can compound value over many years or even decades. While many view the current AI boom skeptically,