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Countless companies stand to benefit from AI, but these stocks have AI and automation as a central part of their businesses.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a massive and expansive umbrella encompassing many different technologies. You are probably familiar with generative AI, like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Alphabet's Google Gemini (NASDAQ: GOOGL).

The artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem was rocked recently by news that Chinese start-up DeepSeek had developed a cost-effective and competent large language model on the cheap. That revelation called into question the tens of billions of dollars that are being poured into the buildout of AI infrastructure,