Nvidia, in contrast, has nearly everything AI investors want. It's profitable, it has plenty of room to grow as AI investments expand, and its shares are relatively well priced with a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 34, compared to the tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 's 26.4. For all of those reasons, Nvidia looks like the far better AI stock right now.

NVIDIA Corporation NVDA has been around for decades. However, with the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), the company has witnessed explosive business growth. In the past year, NVDA stock has surged 149%, becoming one of the top S&P 500 performers of 2024.

Down 29.4% in the first two-and-a-half weeks of the New Year, SoundHound AI (Nasdaq: SOUN) stock is off to a rocky start in 2025. One thing you cannot say about SoundHound stock though, is that it’s been boring ride.

SoundHound's stock has struggled since its presentation at CES 2025, down nearly 30% since the event kicked off in early January. Today was especially rough, however, as the market digested news of the disruptive Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) entry, DeepSeek.