12 Fast-Growing AI Stocks to Watch
Some of the fastest growth in AI isn’t happening in chatbots. It’s happening in the chips, memory, cloud infrastructure and data centres required to keep them running.
Microsoft, Meta and Amazon are spending extraordinary amounts of money on AI.
But you won’t find them on this list.
That’s because we’re looking for something slightly different: listed companies experiencing particularly strong growth from the AI buildout in 2026.
This isn’t a ranking by share-price performance, nor an exhaustive ranking of every listed AI company. Instead, think of it as a map of where AI spending is showing up most clearly in company revenues.
And some of the names may surprise you.
The giants still growing fast
NvidiaNasdaq: NVDA
AI exposure: GPUs + computing infrastructureNvidia hardly needs an introduction. Its chips provide much of the computing power behind today’s AI models.
What’s remarkable is the growth it’s still producing at its size.
Q2 FY2027 revenue reached US$96.2 billion, up 106% year-on-year, with Data Center revenue alone hitting US$89 billion.
BroadcomNasdaq: AVGO
AI exposure: Custom AI chips + networkingBroadcom may be one of the most important AI companies many consumers have never heard of.
It helps major technology companies design custom AI accelerators and provides the networking technology connecting thousands of chips inside AI data centres.
Q3 AI semiconductor revenue surged 221% year-on-year to US$16.7 billion.
AMDNasdaq: AMD
AI exposure: GPUs + CPUsAMD is emerging as the most credible large-scale challenger to Nvidia in AI accelerators.
Its Q2 revenue rose 50% to US$11.5 billion, while Data Center revenue more than doubled to US$6.7 billion.
AlphabetNasdaq: GOOGL
AI exposure: Gemini + cloud + custom chipsGoogle is unusual because it operates across almost every layer of AI: Gemini models, consumer applications, Google Cloud and its own TPU chips.
Q2 Google Cloud revenue surged 82% to US$24.8 billion, while Gemini reached 950 million monthly active users.
The AI boom’s new winners
MicronNasdaq: MU
AI exposure: High-bandwidth memoryAI chips need memory—and increasingly enormous amounts of it.
Micron produces high-bandwidth memory (HBM), a critical component sitting alongside advanced AI processors.
Its FY2026 revenue reached US$133.2 billion, compared with US$37.4 billion the previous year, as AI-driven memory demand and pricing surged.
OracleNYSE: ORCL
AI exposure: Cloud infrastructureOracle wasn’t initially viewed as one of the obvious AI winners.
That’s changing quickly.
Its latest quarterly cloud infrastructure revenue jumped 121% to US$7.4 billion, while contracted remaining performance obligations reached US$664 billion.
PalantirNasdaq: PLTR
AI exposure: Enterprise + government AI softwarePalantir sits much closer to the end user.
Its software helps companies and governments connect data, AI models and real-world operations—from manufacturing to defence.
Q2 revenue increased 93% to US$1.94 billion, while US commercial revenue jumped 149%.
AlibabaNYSE · HKEX 9988: BABA
AI exposure: China cloud + AI modelsMost AI portfolios are heavily tilted towards America.
Alibaba offers a window into the other major AI ecosystem: China.
The company has developed its Qwen models alongside Alibaba Cloud and its own AI infrastructure.
Its latest quarterly AI Cloud and Compute Services revenue rose 45%, while AI-related product revenue has recorded triple-digit growth for 12 consecutive quarters.
The smaller names to know
Astera LabsNasdaq: ALAB
AI exposure: Data-centre connectivityHere’s where the AI infrastructure story gets more interesting.
Astera Labs doesn’t make GPUs. It makes technology that helps increasingly powerful processors, memory and other components communicate with each other inside AI data centres.
As AI clusters become larger, moving data efficiently becomes increasingly important.
Marvell TechnologyNasdaq: MRVL
AI exposure: Custom silicon + networkingMarvell is another company benefiting from what happens between the GPUs.
It develops networking technology and custom silicon used inside data centres, giving it exposure to the buildout of increasingly large AI clusters.
VertivNYSE: VRT
AI exposure: Power + coolingOne of AI’s biggest problems isn’t software.
It’s electricity.
AI data centres consume enormous amounts of power and generate enormous amounts of heat. Vertiv provides the power management, cooling and infrastructure required to keep those facilities running.
NebiusNasdaq: NBIS
AI exposure: AI cloud infrastructureNebius is the smallest—and arguably most speculative—name on this list.
The company builds cloud infrastructure specifically for AI developers, providing access to GPUs and the computing environments needed to train and run models.
Unlike Amazon or Microsoft, it doesn’t have an enormous legacy business surrounding it.
That means AI infrastructure growth can have a much larger impact on the company.
The growth, side by side
THE EDIT
There’s a pattern running through this list.
Some of AI’s fastest growth is happening behind the screen.
- Processors
- Nvidia and AMD provide the processors.
- Memory
- Micron provides the memory.
- Moving the data
- Broadcom, Marvell and Astera help move the data.
- Computing capacity
- Oracle and Nebius provide computing capacity.
- Power + cooling
- Vertiv helps provide the power and cooling required to keep everything running.
- Closer to users
- Then Alphabet, Alibaba and Palantir sit closer to where businesses and consumers actually use AI.
That’s useful for investors because buying an “AI stock” can mean exposure to completely different economics and risks.
For Singapore investors, there’s another consideration: you may already own several of the biggest names through an S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 or global technology ETF. Buying them individually can increase concentration rather than diversification.
And the fastest-growing company isn’t automatically the best investment.
Rapid growth can attract extraordinary valuations. Smaller companies can offer greater upside if they execute—but considerably greater downside if expectations aren’t met.
So rather than asking simply which AI stock will win?, we think there are two better questions:
Where in the AI value chain is the money flowing fastest?
And perhaps more importantly:
How much of that future growth are investors already paying for today?
This list is not ranked by investment preference or expected return. It highlights selected listed companies showing strong AI-related business or revenue growth in 2026.
This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security.
Financial data based on the latest reported results available as at 6 October 2026.
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