If you had $1,000 to invest, which would you choose, Palantir or Snowflake? One of these two booming AI stocks could be the smartest buy of 2025.

In 2024, Nvidia’s revenue soared to $130.5 billion, with AI-driven data center sales accounting for nearly 80% of its growth, reflecting a 93% year-over-year increase. Its CUDA software ecosystem further cements its dominance, creating a high barrier to entry for competitors like AMD or Intel.

Shares of Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) have jumped an impressive 36% in the past two months, well beyond the broad recovery stocks have seen as President Trump put a pause on his most aggressive trade policies.