One artificial intelligence (AI) stock that got off to a scorching start this year is social media juggernaut Meta Platforms (META 1.11%). Just a couple of weeks ago, Meta's leade

The stock market appears to be in the middle of quite the storm as of late. In the final days of January, a Chinese start-up called DeepSeek sent shock waves around the world after it released an artificial intelligence (AI) model similar to ChatGPT -- and claims to have trained its AI with legacy architectures that aren't widely leveraged by U.

Tech stocks are currently in high demand, and despite market volatility, Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) remain industry leaders. Both stocks offer promising return forecasts according to Wall Street,

We recently published a list of Top 12 AI Stocks Dominating the Market Right Now. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Meta Platforms, Inc.

Facebook parent Meta is entering the competitive field of humanoid robotics, joining rivals such as Nvidia-backed Figure AI and Tesla, as the emergence of advanced AI models drive

This move would put Arm in direct competition with some of its largest customers, including Nvidia, which build their own chips on top of Arm's architecture. Arm has been somewhat exempt from the AI-linked growth spurts enjoyed by chipmakers because it makes money from AI indirectly by steadily raising licensing fees for its technology and charging royalties for each chip other companies sell.

It’s a tribute to American tech dominance that the companies — Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla — have a combined net worth greater than that of all the companies in Europe.

And at this level, Nvidia clearly could attract a broad range of investors, especially if the company delivers positive news during the upcoming earnings report. That's another reason why I predict Nvidia stock will soar after Feb. 26.

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All of this means Nvidia makes a great AI stock to buy ahead of Feb. 26. If the stock rises or falls after the report, that's OK. What's most important is this player has the earnings strength to help the shares roar higher in the quarters and years to come.

While Nvidia earnings will be a critical test for the AI trade, even a beat may not be enough to restore the chip giant's lost momentum.

Nvidia makes its fortune primarily through its compute and networking business, which sells advanced chipsets called graphics process