With shares down 20 percent, the risk/ reward appears increasingly compelling say analysts. The stock has 22 buy ratings and only 2 hold ratings in the last three months.

Voice search and AI are underappreciated positive factors "that could sustain high revenue growth for Yext in excess of 30 percent for an extended period of time, in our view," the analyst said.In 2017, Microsoft changed its strategy from a "mobile-first and cloud-first world" to "an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge infused with AI." "We believe this global memory chip shortage is set to continue until the end of 2018, at the least" writes Cyrus Mewawalla the managing director of CM Research. ... Stock quotes supplied by Six Financial & Barchart Quotes delayed at least 20 minutes. The average analyst price target on Alphabet of $1,159 is 11 percent higher than the current share price.Got a confidential news tip? By … The introduction of TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) acceleration for neural network machine learning adds to Google Cloud's edge in the machine learning space, particularly because TPUs won't be sold commercially. View real-time stock prices and stock quotes for a full financial overview. Today all of the major cloud computing services offer computing time on Nvidia GPUs, and AI-specific chips like Nvidia's Titan V are finding difficulty keeping up with on-premise customer demand.We're taking a closer look at the tech to find the two stocks that stand to benefit from the rising adoption of artificial intelligence tech more than their peers. Microsoft has proven it can execute on its hybrid cloud strategy, and we expect accelerating growth on both the top and bottom lines," says Horan. "Microsoft is focused on embedding all products and services with AI capabilities.

Meanwhile, even with shares exploding by 100 percent year to date, the average analyst price target of $52 suggests MU still has upside potential.Get this delivered to your inbox, and more info about our products and services.In the last three months, FB has received 29 buy ratings from analysts and only two bearish ratings. After years of under-the-radar research, AI is making its way to an application near you. Specifically, Micron says it is already shipping its fastest LPDDR4x memory to "multiple automotive customers," enabling system bandwidth speeds of 100 GB per second.Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai claims Google has an "AI first" future. Year-to-date performance: +53.4%. Company profile page for Neuralink Corp including stock price, company news, press releases, executives, board members, and contact information The company is now one of the leaders in AI, and has just teamed up withl Amazon to offer developers new tools to develop and share open source AI software.Google is using its AI technology to make existing products like email and search smarter. "The requested video is unable to play.In the last three months, Alphabet has received 24 buy ratings and just 3 hold ratings from top analysts. Artificial intelligence is the hottest trend in the tech sector right now -- and these two stocks are the best ways to play it for 2018. And this strategy shift seems to be paying off. Together these three companies control over 80 percent of the $122 billion global memory chip market at a time of worldwide memory shortage.Please disable your ad blocker on CNBC and reload the page to start the video.The stock has 22 buy ratings and only 2 hold ratings in the last three months. The datacenter business has been one of Nvidia's fastest-growing segments in recent years, as more commercial GPU users come online. They're only available through Google Cloud.This has nothing to do with video games.For instance, the firm's 2014 acquisition of British artificial intelligence company DeepMind gave it exposure to a firm applying AI tech at the bleeding edge. Intel says the chip will be the first in the world specific to neural networks.In the last three months, 13 top analysts have published buy ratings on Microsoft shares, versus just one hold rating.Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes. OpenAI makes an all-purpose API for its text-based AI capabilities. In the company's most-recent post-earnings call he told analysts: "It's been particularly exciting to see our early bet on artificial intelligence pay off and go from a research project to something that can solve new problems for a billion people a day. In 2017 alone, Alphabet has picked up predictive analytics platform Kaggle, Bangalore based Halli Labs and the computer vision specialist startup AIMatter.Social media giant Facebook says it "wants to solve AI."