Artificial intelligence (AI) stocks delivered another year of impressive returns to investors in 2025, as is evident from the 30% jump in the Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF — the largest AI-focused exchange-traded fund.
The sector did well despite starting 2025 on the back foot for reasons that included President Donald Trump’s tariff-induced trade wars and concerns about the huge amounts of money being spent on AI infrastructure. Those concerns were amplified after Chinese tech startup DeepSeek claimed that it had been able to train its large language model for a fraction of what the likes of OpenAI have been…
