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Meta is discussing a multi-billion dollar investment in Scale AI, according to Bloomberg. In fact, the deal value could reportedly exceed $10 billion, making it the largest external AI investment for the Facebook parent company and one of the largest funding events ever for a private company.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is sweeping across every industry. Researcher IDC forecasts that AI will contribute a total of nearly $20 trillion to the global economy over the next five years. By 2045, AI could drive enormous returns for investors who invest in the right stocks.

Here are two stocks that could deliver tremendous returns over the next 20 years.

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1. Nvidia

Nvidia's (NASDAQ: NVDA) dominance in the market for graphics processing units (GPU) -- vital hardware for handling AI workloads -- has placed it in a lucrative position. Even after its meteoric rise over the last few years, the chipmaker still has plenty of growth ahead.

Two years ago, on the company's fiscal Q4 2023 earnings call, CEO Jensen Huang stated, "I believe the number of AI infrastructures is going to grow all over the world." He expected to see more AI data centers built, and that Nvidia's chips, networking products, and software systems would help accelerate AI computing by a factor of 1 million times over the coming 10 years.

Nvidia's latest quarterly report shows that Huang's prediction is continuing to play out. In a quarter where its revenue grew 69% year-over-year, Nvidia saw accelerating deployments of AI-purposed data centers, aka AI factories. There are nearly 100 Nvidia-powered AI factories in progress right now -- twice as many as there were a year ago.

These specialized data centers are being built across every industry and geography. Nvidia is in a solid competitive position with its in-demand full-stack solutions that cover hardware, networking components, software, and systems. Its networking revenue alone jumped 64% over the previous quarter, reflecting a massive jump in demand for networking components to handle the massive growth in data processing and AI workloads that's happening now.

Industry estimates pointing to a $1 trillion data center opportunity could be underestimating the actual long-term opportunity for Nvidia. Nvidia has generated more than $148 billion in trailing 12-month revenue and its top line is still growing by more than 50% year over year. That trajectory for a company of this size indicates an enormous opportunity.

Nvidia is playing a vital role in meeting the demand for AI. While at some point there could be a slowdown in data center spending that saps Nvidia's momentum, the combination of its powerful GPUs and its popular networking and software solutions provides it with a wide competitive moat. The stock should continue to deliver long-term growth, as it has over the last quarter of a century.

2. Meta Platforms

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) could be a sleeper AI beneficiary over the long term. When AI ushers in time-saving services like fully autonomous robotaxis, people will have a lot more time to do other things, such as browsing social media. That's just one way AI could benefit Meta's business over the next 20 years that is not reflected in the stock's valuation.

Investors can get a hint of the impact that AI could have on Meta's business by looking at how much the company is investing in the technology. It is planning for capital expenditures of at least $64 billion in 2025, and those investments will go primarily toward data centers. (Investors should note that this rising spending on hardware is also ringing the cash register for Nvidia.)

Meta's high returns on capital show that it doesn't spend money like this unless management sees attractive returns down the road. The company is investing in AI for a number of initiatives, including new experiences to drive more useful and immersive experiences across its family of apps.

One of the ways it brings more useful content is by showing its users more relevant ads. Over the last few years, Meta has benefited from a growing digital ad market that has started to implement AI technology for improved ad targeting. Revenue grew 22% in 2024, and much of this momentum continued in Q1 2025, when revenue rose by 16% year over year.

Meta could also benefit from the launch of new devices powered by AI, such as its Meta AI glasses. More than 1 billion people wear glasses, and Meta believes that in the future, AI will be integrated into a large number of these glasses. So far, it seems to be tapping into a big opportunity, as sales of Meta's Ray-Ban AI glasses have tripled over the last year.

More than 3.4 billion people use Meta Platforms' apps every day. That's a huge built-in audience for it to leverage AI technology to grow the value of the business. Its current valuation of 27 times forward earnings estimates is a reasonable price, and leaves plenty of potential for the company's growth to drive healthy stock price gains over the long term.

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For the last couple of years, it's been easy to group the "Magnificent Seven" together. These massive companies have become the dominant tech players and have taken advantage of artificial intelligence (AI) like no other group of companies in the market.

But once President Donald Trump took office and enacted sweeping tariffs, the group began to diverge based on how tariffs impacted their supply chains and the types of products and services they sold.

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Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has been one of the strongest, most resilient performers in the group. Is it time to double down on Microsoft stock today?

Riding Azure's momentum

While all the companies in the Magnificent Seven operate in the tech sector, most of them have been able to develop diversified revenue streams. Microsoft has many unique tech businesses, including cloud services, Microsoft Office 365 products, gaming, LinkedIn, search and advertising, and more.

Luckily for Microsoft, many of these businesses are services the company provides and therefore are less impacted by tariffs, which likely explains its strong performance in 2025 (as of June 3).

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But a big reason for the company's strong performance is Azure, which falls under the company's cloud services and products category. Azure and other cloud services revenue in the company's third fiscal quarter of 2025 (quarter ended March 31, 2025) grew 35% year over year.

Azure is the foundation of Microsoft's artificial intelligence offerings and business. Launched in 2010, Azure started as a cloud computing network of data centers that companies could run their business on instead of maintaining their own infrastructure.

Since then, Azure has branched out to offer numerous other products, including in artificial intelligence. Through a partnership with OpenAI, Azure provides AI models that developers and businesses can leverage to build their own AI applications. Microsoft has also integrated AI tools from Azure into its own applications, such as Microsoft 365 Copilot, to automate repetitive tasks and improve efficiency.

Many investors questioned Microsoft's significant capital expenditures (capex) on AI over the last two to three years, wondering when they would see a payoff, which has now started to play out. Interestingly, on the company's most recent earnings call, Microsoft CFO Amy Hood pointed out that it's getting harder to separate AI-related revenue from non-AI-related revenue, as the two are starting to feed off of one another.

Evercore analyst Kirk Materne raised his price target on Microsoft from $500 to $515 in late May and maintained a buy rating on the company. Materne said that not only is Microsoft all in on AI, but the more traditional cloud business also still has plenty of runway, considering only around 20% of information technology workloads run in the cloud today -- a number Materne thinks could eventually increase to 80%. And AI tools could be a way to bring more businesses onto the cloud. Materne estimates that Microsoft's AI revenue could reach upwards of $110 billion by fiscal year 2028.

Time to double down?

There are several reasons to double down on Microsoft. For one, it is arguably the company least impacted by tariffs in the Magnificent Seven. As Morningstar points out, the company "has minimal risk exposure to retail, advertising spending, cyclical hardware, or physical supply chains." This should make it more resilient as the trade war continues to play out.

Microsoft's cloud and AI business is also starting to thrive. The company is reaping benefits from all the capex spending and is well-positioned to further grow revenue as the digital transformation of the business world continues to progress. Finally, Microsoft is one of just a few companies in the world to hold the highest possible credit rating from both Moody's and S&P Global. This makes it a source of stability throughout the economic cycle.

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The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) delivered back-to-back annual gains of over 25% in 2023 and 2024 (when including dividends). The only other time the index had such a strong two-year run was during the dot-com internet boom in 1997 and 1998. As was the case back then, stocks in the technology and tech-adjacent industries drove most of the upside this time around.

The "Magnificent Seven" is a group of seven companies that lead different segments of the tech space. They earned the nickname for their enormous size and their tendency to outperform the broader S&P 500. In fact, investors who didn't own them during 2023 and 2024 likely underperformed the index by a very wide margin:

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However, the S&P 500 is off to a bumpy start to 2025 due to global trade tensions, which were sparked by President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs. All of the Magnificent Seven stocks are trading down from their all-time highs, presenting long-term investors with a compelling opportunity. Shares of Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) are down 9% and 15%, respectively, from all-time highs hit in early 2025 (as of this writing).

Here's why investors might want to buy the dips.

The case for Meta Platforms

Meta is the parent company of social networks like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which serve over 3.4 billion people every single day. Acquiring new users is becoming harder because nearly half the planet is already using those platforms, so the company is trying to boost engagement instead. The longer each user spends online, the more ads they see, and the more money Meta makes.

Meta uses artificial intelligence (AI) in its recommendation engine to learn what type of content Facebook and Instagram users enjoy viewing, and it uses that information to show them more of it. During the first quarter of 2025, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said this strategy led to a 6% increase in the amount of time users were spending on Instagram over the last six months, and a 7% increase for Facebook.

But Meta is also using AI to help businesses craft better ads. Soon, Zuckerberg says a business will simply have to tell Meta its goals (like brand awareness or selling a specific product) and its budget, and an AI assistant will handle the rest -- that includes designing the creative (the text, image, or video) and defining the audience. Most small businesses don't have their own marketing teams, so this could be a powerful tool that boosts Meta's share of the digital advertising market.

Meta AI is another innovation from the social media giant. It has become one of the most popular chatbots in the world with almost 1 billion monthly active users, despite only launching last year. It's built on Meta's Llama family of large language models (LLMs), which are now among the most intelligent in the AI industry. Meta plans to spend up to $72 billion on data center infrastructure and chips this year, most of which will be geared toward advancing Llama even further and meeting inference demand for Meta AI.

Meta has generated $25.64 in earnings per share (EPS) over the last four quarters, so based on its current stock price of around $650, it trades at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 25.2. That makes it the second-cheapest Magnificent Seven stock ahead of only Alphabet, which is battling a series of regulatory issues:

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Because of Meta's progress in AI, its solid (and growing) profits, and its valuation, I think the company is on its way to the exclusive $2 trillion club.

The case for Amazon

E-commerce remains the single biggest contributor to Amazon's overall revenue, but investors are currently more focused on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform. It offers hundreds of solutions to help businesses navigate the digital world, but it's also trying to dominate the three core layers of AI: hardware infrastructure, LLMs, and software.

AWS operates data centers filled with chips from leading suppliers like Nvidia, and it rents the computing capacity to AI developers for a profit. But Amazon also designed its own chips, and the new Trainium2 can save developers up to 40% on AI training costs compared to competing hardware.

AWS also developed a family of LLMs called Nova, which includes the new NovaSonic speech-to-speech model for conversational AI applications. Ready-made models eliminate the need for developers to create their own from scratch, so using them can significantly accelerate their AI software projects. The Nova family is available on Amazon Bedrock, along with other LLMs from leading third parties like Meta and Anthropic.

On the software front, AWS now offers an integrated virtual assistant called Q, which can write computer code to help developers create software more quickly. It can also analyze internal data to provide businesses with actionable insights. In addition, Amazon developed a separate virtual assistant for Amazon.com called Rufus, which helps shoppers compare products and make more informed decisions.

Amazon generated $155.6 billion in total revenue during the first quarter of 2025. AWS accounted for just 19% of that total ($29.2 billion), yet it was responsible for 63% of the entire company's operating income. Segments like e-commerce operate on razor-thin margins, so AWS is the profit engine behind the whole organization, which is why investors monitor it so closely.

AWS has become a leader in AI infrastructure and services, and I think that will be Amazon's golden ticket to the ultra-exclusive $3 trillion club in the next couple of years, where it could sit alongside Microsoft, Apple, and Nvidia.

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On Thursday, Anduril and Meta announced news that feels like a fairy tale ending for Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey. The two companies are working together to build extended reality (XR) devices for the U.S. military, Anduril announced in a blog post. “I am glad to be working with Meta once again,” Luckey is quoted as […]

After weeks of arguments in the Federal Trade Commission's monopoly trial, Meta is done defending its decade-plus-old acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp—at least for now.

The seven-week trial ended Tuesday, with the FTC urging Judge James Boasberg to rule that a breakup is necessary to end Meta's alleged monopoly in the "personal social networking services" market, where Meta currently faces sparse competition among other apps connecting friends and family. As alleged by the FTC, Meta's internal emails laid bare that Meta's motive in acquiring both Instagram and WhatsApp was to pay whatever it took to snuff out dominant rivals threatening to lure users away from Facebook—Mark Zuckerberg's jewel.

Talking to Bloomberg, Meta has maintained that the FTC's case is weak, seeking to undo deals that the FTC approved long ago while ignoring the competition Meta faces from rivals in the broader social media market, like TikTok. But Meta's attempt to shut down the case mid-trial was rebuffed by Boasberg, who has signaled he will take months to weigh his decision.

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Over the last few decades, the American technology sector has made boatloads of millionaires -- not only for founders and CEOs, but also for the thousands of regular people who work at these companies or buy their stock. With shares up by over 23,000% over the last decade, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is the quintessential example of this phenomenon.

But as we all know, past performance doesn't guarantee future returns. And with a market cap of $3.2 trillion, Nvidia is already one of the largest companies on Earth, giving it less room to grow. Let's dig deeper to see what the future might bring for this legendary chipmaker.

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Is AI becoming mainstream?

While Nvidia started its life focusing on consumer video game graphics and cryptocurrency mining, both of those once-core operations have become totally overshadowed by generative AI. As of the fourth quarter, the data center segment (where Nvidia accounts for sales of cutting-edge AI chips) represented a jaw-dropping 91% of its $39.3 billion in sales for the period.

This level of concentration means that a large portion of Nvidia's valuation is tied to the prospects of this one industry. If AI tech exceeds expectations, so will Nvidia. But if the sector falls flat, well -- you know the drill. Right now, it still feels too early to know how things will play out.

Analysts at Jeffries seem wildly optimistic. Their research suggests that three-quarters of businesses already use generative AI in at least one function, and they expect it to drive $1.1 trillion in revenue by 2028.

But investors shouldn't necessarily take these projections at face value. Even if AI becomes a part of mainstream life, there is no guarantee that big profits will follow. And this puts Nvidia's clients in a tough spot.

AI companies are burning through money.

Despite the hype, generative AI remains wildly unprofitable. While giants like Alphabet and Meta Platforms can hide their AI losses within their vast research and development budgets, the scale of the problem is much clearer with pure-play AI companies like OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.

The Economist reports that while the start-up's 2024 revenue tripled to $3.7 billion, losses ballooned to $5 billion. And while OpenAI's management believes it can achieve $12 billion in cash flow by 2029, this is far from guaranteed due to the intense competition in the industry.

Chinese open-source rival DeepSeek shows that competitive AI models can be created (arguably) at a fraction of the cost of their U.S. counterparts, which means early leaders may not have much of an economic moat, especially when the technology matures and the rate of model improvement slows. If profit potential shrinks, so will the market for Nvidia's expensive hardware.

Nvidia will also face challenges on the hardware side of the industry as companies seek to diversify their supply chains. In April, the Trump administration effectively banned the company from selling its h20 chips to Chinese clients. While Nvidia has already started work on a new compliant chip, it is unclear if Chinese companies will be willing to build their businesses around Nvidia hardware, given the unpredictability of U.S. regulations. Rivals like Huawei are working to take market share.

The easy money has already been made

Nvidia is a big player in a potentially transformational industry, so there is little doubt it can continue to outperform the market over the long term (even though there will be short-term volatility).

That said, the easy money has already been made. New investors shouldn't expect this legendary chipmaker to repeat the multibagger returns it enjoyed over the previous decades. You can attribute the slower progress to the challenging dynamics on both the software and hardware sides of the AI industry.

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For five weeks, the Federal Trade Commission asked a federal judge to imagine a world where Instagram and WhatsApp flourished outside Meta's control instead of being acquired by the tech giant. In the sixth and final week of trial, Meta asked Judge James Boasberg to consider that actually, these apps might be as good as they can get.

Meta rested its case Wednesday after a brief four days in court (many of its witnesses were also called by the FTC, so it already had the chance to question them in prior weeks). In those final days, Meta called on WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton and an early Instagram infrastructure executive to explain how Meta helped those apps grow in ways they'd be unlikely to otherwise - countering testimony from Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom, who claimed Meta withheld resources to help the app grow and become safer, and believed Instagram would have still been a hit on its own.

Meta argues that far from becoming competitors that checked Meta's power, Instagram and WhatsApp might have withered, remaining far less useful or accessible to consumers than they are today.

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An outdated Meta AI model was apparently at the center of the Department of Government Efficiency's initial ploy to purge parts of the federal government.

Wired reviewed materials showing that affiliates of Elon Musk's DOGE working in the Office of Personnel Management "tested and used Meta’s Llama 2 model to review and classify responses from federal workers to the infamous 'Fork in the Road' email that was sent across the government in late January."

The "Fork in the Road" memo seemed to copy a memo that Musk sent to Twitter employees, giving federal workers the choice to be "loyal"—and accept the government's return-to-office policy—or else resign. At the time, it was rumored that DOGE was feeding government employee data into AI, and Wired confirmed that records indicate Llama 2 was used to sort through responses and see how many employees had resigned.

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Meta thinks there's no reason to carry on with its defense after the Federal Trade Commission closed its monopoly case, and the company has moved to end the trial early by claiming that the FTC utterly failed to prove its case.

"The FTC has no proof that Meta has monopoly power," Meta's motion for judgment filed Thursday said, "and therefore the court should rule in favor of Meta."

According to Meta, the FTC failed to show evidence that "the overall quality of Meta’s apps has declined" or that the company shows too many ads to users. Meta says that's "fatal" to the FTC's case that the company wielded monopoly power to pursue more ad revenue while degrading user experience over time (an Internet trend known as "enshittification"). And on top of allegedly showing no evidence of "ad load, privacy, integrity, and features" degradation on Meta apps, Meta argued there's no precedent for an antitrust claim rooted in this alleged harm.

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