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Adam Spatacco, The Motley Fool
Sun, Mar 23, 2025, 3:20 PM 5 min read
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I usage Nov. 30, 2022, arsenic the unofficial commencement of the artificial quality (AI) revolution. This is the time that OpenAI released ChatGPT to the wide public.
Since ChatGPT became portion of mainstream culture, the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) and Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) indexes have notched aggregate highs -- acknowledgment successful ample portion to megacap exertion stocks witnessing parabolic rises. Among the biggest gainers successful the superior markets person been the "Magnificent Seven" stocks.
Within that cohort, Nvidia and Meta Platforms person been the apical performers by a mile -- gaining 601% and 409%, respectively, arsenic of this penning (March 17).
Coming successful 3rd spot is e-commerce and unreality computing person Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), whose banal has rocketed 102% since the merchandise of ChatGPT. While this instrumentality is multiples higher than gains seen crossed the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, I deliberation adjacent amended days are up for Amazon.
Let's research however Amazon is making waves successful the AI arena and analyse however the company's investments successful the exertion are already bearing fruit. In addition, I'll reappraisal Amazon's valuation and marque the lawsuit for wherefore I deliberation present is simply a large clip to bargain the banal manus implicit fist and hole to clasp for the agelong run.
While companies specified arsenic Nvidia, Microsoft, and Tesla fetch a batch of the attraction surrounding the AI narrative, Amazon has softly been making immoderate large moves of its own.
For starters, the institution has invested a whopping $8 cardinal into a adjacent close of OpenAI called Anthropic. As portion of their alliance, Anthropic is grooming its generative AI models connected Amazon's unreality infrastructure. In addition, the AI developer is besides leveraging Amazon's customized Trainium and Inferentia chips -- a determination that I deliberation could beryllium competitory to Nvidia and its graphics processing portion (GPU) behemoth down the road.
Since Amazon partnered with Anthropic successful September 2023, the institution has witnessed important acceleration successful its unreality concern -- Amazon Web Services (AWS). To adhd immoderate colour here, gross successful AWS grew astatine 13% annually successful the 4th fourth of 2023 each portion increasing operating income by 39% twelvemonth implicit year.
However, arsenic of Q4 2024 AWS grew astatine 19% twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth and widened its operating income maturation to 48%.
While this is each encouraging, Amazon doesn't look to beryllium resting connected its laurels. According to assorted institution property releases, Amazon is readying to walk upward of $30 cardinal connected information centers successful Georgia, Ohio, Mississippi, and Mexico implicit the adjacent respective years.