The report breaks the investment opportunity into three layers: (1) the enabling layer, (2) the intelligence layer, and (3) the application layer. Listed below are three brilliant AI stocks (one for each layer) that billionaires were buying in the second quarter.

As of the end of the second quarter, Meta had nearly 3.3 billion daily active users (DAUs). That's a huge advantage for the company in many ways, but consider this: Meta is in a position to introduce its AI-powered features to roughly 40% of the world's population.

The stock has shot up 135% so far in 2024 as of this writing, and that's justified, as Nvidia is the leading player in the market for AI graphics processing units (GPUs), with an estimated market share of 94% at the end of 2023.

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Using Wall Street analysts' price targets to determine whether a stock is a buy or a sell isn't the best strategy. While it should help inform investors of how others think of the stock, it shouldn't be the be-all and end-all. One popular artificial intelligence (AI) stock that these analysts (on average) say to sell now is Palantir (NYSE: PLTR).