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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 US artificial intelligence (Al) market size was pegged at US$123.07 billion in 2023, which should be able to compound at ~19.3% over 2024 to 2034 to touch US$851.46 billion, according to

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.

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Generative AI is taking the world by storm. This groundbreaking technology is capable of creating new content, such as text, images, and even music, based on the patterns it learns from existing data.

Artificial intelligence (AI) was the dominant theme in the market throughout 2023, and that carried into 2024 in a very big way with a growing number of companies adopting the technology. That trend is likely to continue,