Back in the dot-com boom of 1999, Qualcomm (QCOM), the wireless communication trailblazer powering the internet, became the poster boy of the “internet boom.” Shares of Qualcomm then soared 2,659% … in less than a year.
But could Qualcomm live up to the hype?
We know now that it could not, as QCOM stock lost 85% of its value over the next three years.
Worse yet, it took Qualcomm nearly two decades to claw its way back from those losses. It wasn’t until the middle of 2019 that Qualcomm stock reclaimed its dot-com boom highs.
The lesson from history is clear: As we enter the “Artificial Intelligence Boom,” steer clear of the “Qualcomm of AI stocks.”
But which company fits that unfortunate description? We believe we have found it…
It is the most-owned, most-popular, most-loved AI stock in the stock market today.
Heck, many of you undoubtedly own this stock, as we also recommended it…
We’re talking, of course, about Nvidia (NVDA).
The Qualcomm of AI Stocks
Ask any investor what the top AI stock to buy these days is, and they’ll likely tell you that the safest bet is Nvidia.
Like Qualcomm in the dot-com boom, Nvidia has morphed into the poster boy for the AI boom in 2023. Burgeoning demand for the firm’s next-generation GPUs, which are used to make AI models, has made NVDA the hottest AI stock on the Street.
And deservedly so.
Nvidia’s revenues have surged, along with its profits and share price. This year alone, NVDA shares are up nearly 200%:
In our flagship research service, Innovation Investor, we have benefitted from this boom. We have owned NVDA stock in our “Core Portfolio” for several years now. At its peak, the position was up more than 1,000% for us.
Yesterday, though, we parted ways with our entire position in the AI darling.
And it’s definitely not because the AI Boom is dying.
Rather, it’s because the AI Boom is shifting out of Nvidia’s favor.
NVDA stock was the No. 1 AI stock to buy in 2023. Now we think it could turn into the No. 1 AI stock to sell.
The story here is pretty simple.
Nvidia has benefitted from a huge demand surge in 2023, primarily because Big Tech firms were looking to build new AI models with its GPUs. But that surge will prove temporary because those same Big Tech firms that have been fueling the surge are now moving away from Nvidia to develop their own chips.
Have you heard of Dojo?
Dojo is Tesla’s (TSLA) supercomputer. Think of it as the “brain” behind Tesla’s self-driving operations. Right now, there are millions of Teslas on the road, and all of that driving data from all of those Teslas are fed into Dojo. Dojo crunches through all of that data and develops self-driving algorithms that power the autonomous vehicle capabilities in Tesla cars.
Dojo is Tesla’s AI…
And Dojo doesn’t use Nvidia GPUs.
Tesla used to power all of its self-driving operations with a large Nvidia GPU-based supercomputer. But Dojo is set to replace that.
In other words, while Tesla previously relied on Nvidia’s GPUs, the firm has now developed its own Dojo supercomputer that uses its own custom-built GPUs.
And that gets to the crux of the problem here: customization.
Nvidia won big in the early innings of the “AI Boom” by supplying advanced-but- general-use GPUs to companies developing broad AI models.
But as the AI Race has matured, those companies are now looking to develop more sophisticated and specialized AI models. And for that, they need custom-built GPUs. And economically speaking, it doesn’t make sense for Nvidia to create custom-built GPUs for every single one of its customers.
So, the largest customers are developing their own custom-built GPUs to meet their own specialized AI needs.
Tesla and its Dojo supercomputer are just one example.
Every Big Tech firm that formerly relied on Nvidia is now developing their own custom-built AI chips.
Amazon (AMZN) has developed two AI chips customized specifically to building AI models on its cloud service, AWS. One is for high-performance inference (AWS Inferentia) and the other is for deep-learning training (AWS Trainium). Amazon believes that together, these two chips could power all of AWS’ AI functions in the future.
Amazon also just poured $4 billion into top AI startup Anthropic. And the deal stipulates that Anthropic’s AI models should be built on top of Amazon-made chips – not Nvidia chips.
Meanwhile, Alphabet (GOOGL) is already on the fifth generation of its custom Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) for neural network development.
Microsoft (MSFT) has reportedly invested heavily in its own secretive AI chip development project, codenamed Athena. And news broke earlier this year that Meta (META) is developing its own custom AI chip – the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) chip.
Big Tech has made their move. They’re going all-in on AI. And they are not going to depend on Nvidia to help them win the “AI Race.”
They all want to do it themselves.
This will create huge problems for Nvidia.
Did you know that 39% of Nvidia’s second-quarter revenues came from just two customers? While 32% of its first-half revenues came from that same cohort.
Nvidia reported $13.5 billion in revenues last quarter. Two customers accounted for nearly 40% of those revenues, meaning two firms spent over $5 billion on Nvidia chips in three months.
Who has that kind of money?
Only Big Tech.
And Big Tech is now pivoting away from Nvidia.
Just connect those dots.
Big Tech fueled Nvidia’s 2023 growth surge. And now Big Tech is pivoting away from Nvidia. That growth surge will fall flat in 2024. Once it does, richly valued NVDA stock will come crashing back to Earth.
It is time to sell NVDA stock.
The Final Word
Insider shareholders have been dumping Nvidia stock like crazy this year, and you should follow suit.
They’ve been dumping Nvidia stock like crazy this year. They see the writing on the wall, and they want to profit off NVDA – while it is still the hottest name on Wall Street.
We think it’d be foolish not to join them.
That’s why we finally sold our NVDA position in our Innovation Investor service for a ~1,000% return. If you’re a subscriber, you can access the site here.
We’re looking to take those profits and roll them into the next batch of top AI stocks to buy.
You see – all of that money that was being spent on Nvidia chips, isn’t going to go away in 2024. It is going to be spent on different, more customizable AI chip makers.
Which means that Nvidia’s pain next year will be someone else’s gain.
But who?
That’s the billion-dollar question we need to answer right now if we want to make big money from top AI stocks in 2024.
Click here to begin profiting off of Nvidia’s impending demise.
On the date of publication, Luke Lango did not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article.