This AI Stock Is Also a Great Dividend Stock

When you think about cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) companies, generous dividend payments probably aren't on your radar. AI is a booming and fast-evolving industry, requiring massive investments to keep pace with the competition.With International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM), investors can have their cake and eat it, too. IBM isn't trying to develop the most advanced AI models, which can cost an arm and a leg to train on pricey data center graphics processing units (GPUs). The company also isn't jamming AI into anything and everything as a way to justify big price increases and pay for prolific AI investments, like Microsoft's recent move to force AI onto Office users. Instead, IBM's AI strategy revolves around enabling other companies to deploy the groundbreaking technology to solve real problems.Startups and some tech giants are feverishly racing to develop more capable AI models, a costly endeavor. How any of these companies ever attain a competitive advantage is an open question. If the top AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are all roughly in the same ballpark in terms of capabilities, trained on largely the same data using similar techniques, the AI race will ultimately be a race to the bottom.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool