The artificial intelligence (AI) space continues to thrive despite potential setbacks from U.S. tariff-related increases to imported chip prices and efficient models like DeepSeek that threaten to upend the industry. Indeed, analysts predict the global AI market will reach more than $244 billion in size during 2025 and that it could top $1 trillion in just six years.
Investors will certainly want a stake in AI companies, given such lofty expectations of future growth. However, in a consolidating industry with an ever-growing number of startups and smaller firms jockeying for positions, it's difficult to pick out who the major winners of AI will be in several years. This is one reason why a related exchange-traded fund (ETF) may be a good all-around bet for investors hoping to focus on AI with a broadly diversified investment.
