AI Stock Categories

Every layer of the AI buildout, ranked by market value and performance.

Layers of the AI buildout with stock count, total market cap, AI-exposed market cap, and 24 hour and 7 day change
#CategoryStocksMarket Capâ–ŧAI-Exposed Cap24h7d
1🧠Foundation Models19$27.00T$16.95T-1.49%+2.20%
2â˜ī¸Cloud & Hyperscalers41$21.65T$16.05T-1.69%+3.32%
3🔲Semiconductors67$19.70T$13.46T-1.32%+7.49%
4đŸ› ī¸AI Software & Platforms36$13.17T$8.57T-1.38%+0.81%
5đŸ’ģAI Applications53$8.30T$5.21T+0.39%+4.01%
6🚗Autonomous Vehicles39$7.22T$6.13T-1.17%+5.04%
7🤖Robotics & Automation43$5.69T$2.67T-1.00%+2.61%
8🏭Chip Equipment & Foundries37$3.96T$2.42T+0.29%+9.03%
9đŸ›Ąī¸Defense & Aerospace AI45$3.34T$1.24T-2.38%+0.07%
10💾Memory & Storage9$2.96T$2.22T-2.63%+12.25%
11đŸĨAI Healthcare34$2.52T$411.01B-0.73%+1.56%
12đŸĸData Centers & Hardware64$2.31T$1.11T-0.74%+3.32%
13⚡Power & Energy57$2.14T$775.18B-0.36%+1.16%
14â›ī¸Raw Materials & Mining37$1.68T$398.88B+0.06%+1.06%
15🔒Cybersecurity AI25$1.56T$488.45B+2.51%+3.51%
16🔌Utilities & Grid42$1.38T$483.70B-1.53%+0.06%
17🔗Networking & Optics24$1.18T$785.18B-0.41%+7.87%
18âš›ī¸Quantum Computing12$341.80B$126.33B+0.73%-2.37%
19â„ī¸Cooling & Thermal9$336.78B$179.50B+0.68%+3.67%
20đŸŒŠī¸Neoclouds22$304.22B$227.02B-2.37%+7.32%
21🤝AI Services10$231.41B$74.76B-0.69%-4.08%
22🔧EMS & Manufacturing9$169.16B$106.88B+2.91%+9.18%

Stocks can belong to multiple categories, so category totals overlap. AI-Exposed Cap weights each stock by its AI Exposure Score.

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Raw Materials & Mining

Copper, rare earths, uranium, lithium, and the miners supplying the physical inputs of the AI and data center buildout.

37 stocks

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Power & Energy

Independent power producers, nuclear and SMRs, natural gas, generators, fuel cells, and storage generating the power behind AI data centers.

57 stocks

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Utilities & Grid

Regulated utilities with data-center demand, transmission and distribution, grid equipment, and the electrical contractors wiring the buildout.

42 stocks

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Chip Equipment & Foundries

Semiconductor manufacturing equipment, materials, and the foundries that fabricate the chips of the AI era.

37 stocks

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Semiconductors

Companies designing AI chips, GPUs, and specialized processors powering AI workloads.

67 stocks

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Memory & Storage

HBM, DRAM, NAND, and enterprise storage: the memory layer feeding data-hungry AI compute.

9 stocks

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Networking & Optics

Switches, interconnects, optics, and photonics moving data inside and between AI clusters.

24 stocks

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Data Centers & Hardware

Data center REITs, operators, developers, and the server and rack hardware housing the world's AI compute.

64 stocks

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Cooling & Thermal

Chillers, liquid cooling, HVAC, and thermal management keeping AI data centers within operating temperature.

9 stocks

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EMS & Manufacturing

Contract manufacturers building the AI servers, switches, racks, and circuit boards of the buildout.

9 stocks

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Neoclouds

GPU-first cloud providers and AI compute specialists renting out the picks and shovels of the supercycle.

22 stocks

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Cloud & Hyperscalers

Hyperscale cloud platforms delivering AI compute, models, and services at global scale.

41 stocks

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Quantum Computing

Companies building quantum computers and selling access to them, a long-horizon bet on compute that classical machines cannot deliver.

12 stocks

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Foundation Models

Companies that train their own foundation models, the large general-purpose systems other software is built on. Using someone else's model does not count.

19 stocks

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AI Software & Platforms

Enterprise AI platforms, developer tools, and data infrastructure software.

36 stocks

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AI Applications

The application layer: software products with AI at the core of what the user touches.

53 stocks

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AI Services

Consultancies, integrators, and data-services firms whose business is building and deploying AI for other companies. They sell work, not product.

10 stocks

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Cybersecurity AI

AI-powered threat detection, security analytics, and cyber defense platforms.

25 stocks

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Robotics & Automation

AI-powered robots, humanoids, drones, and industrial automation systems.

43 stocks

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Autonomous Vehicles

Self-driving technology companies and AI-powered transportation systems.

39 stocks

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AI Healthcare

Companies applying AI to drug discovery, diagnostics, and healthcare delivery.

34 stocks

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Defense & Aerospace AI

Military, space, and defense applications of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems.

45 stocks