Artificial intelligence pushed many stock prices higher, but these three remain particularly attractive for investors.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been the hottest sector on Wall Street for more than two years. First up is IonQ (NYSE: IONQ). As of this writing, shares of IonQ are up more than 275% over the past 12 months.

Pat Gelsinger, former CEO at Intel (INTC), is not sweating over new, low-cost artificial intelligence models from Chinese startup DeepSeek. Instead, he believes that DeepSeek’s cost-effective AI model will be a net positive for the industry.

Artificial intelligence (AI) investing experienced a shakeup when DeepSeek announced that its R1 model was trained for just $5.6 million. However, that doesn't include hardware costs or any pre-training that was done.