As the market pours money into anything connected to artificial intelligence (AI), investors are consumed by a single question: which companies will emerge as the winners? Which chipmaker, which model, which platform comes out on top? Yet there's a compelling case that one of the smartest ways to play the AI revolution is to sidestep that question altogether.
Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) offers that kind of setup. The payments giant does not need to pick the winner of the AI race, because it earns a small toll on an ever-growing river of global spending regardless of which technology ultimately prevails.
