If I Could Only Buy 1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock, This Would Be It

There's a whole host of artificial intelligence (AI) stocks on the market right now, ranging from companies that are all-in on AI to those that are only loosely tied to it. There are also more notable names coming soon. Anthropic -- the developer of the Claude large language model (LLM) and OpenAI -- the developer of ChatGPT -- will likely go public before 2026 is over.

However, regardless of how those IPOs pan out, if I could only own one AI stock, the one I'd pick is Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). It's been the go-to AI investment since the AI arms race began in 2023, and I think now is as good a time as ever to buy it. Why? Because Wall Street and the market aren't giving the company much credit for what's coming over the next few years.

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Nvidia is primed to cash in on major growth

Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs) have been the go-to computing units in the AI industry since the beginning of the AI megatrend.

While it has competitors making both GPUs and custom AI chips, Nvidia has established a reputation for delivering high-performing products, and its widely used CUDA platform has helped it hold its position as a nearly universal AI computing platform. Its wide moat should keep it at the top of the AI computing unit leaderboard, and beyond that, Nvidia's latest forecasts make the stock look like a screaming buy.