We recently published a list of 11 AI Stocks Shaking Up Wall Street Today. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) stands against other AI stocks shaking up Wall Street today.
It hasn’t been long since DeepSeek released its efficient yet low-cost models, causing a frenzy in the tech world. The AI startup has returned to the spotlight today, releasing a major upgrade to its V3 large language model in a quest to intensify competition with its Western counterparts.
The new model, called DeepSeek-V3-0324, has been made available through the AI development platform Hugging Face. The move marks the startup’s continued push to gain a foothold in the rapidly intensifying tech landscape.
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The updated model includes added parameters and improvements in coding and mathematical problem-solving. The company’s website has used the terms “enhanced reasoning capabilities, optimised front-end web development and upgraded Chinese writing proficiency”, to define its updates.
According to the South China Morning Post, this new version and DeepSeek V3 are both foundation models trained on vast data sets. These can be applied in different use cases, such as that of a chatbot.
DeepSeek data has shown that the updated model demonstrates notable benchmark improvements on tests such as the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME). The new version scored 59.4 compared with 39.6 for its predecessor on the test, while it achieved a 49.2 on LiveCodeBench, an increase of 10 points.
According to Häme University of Applied Sciences lecturer Kuittinen Petri, “Anthropic and OpenAI are in trouble.” He noted this when he tested out the new version and asked it to “create a great-looking responsive front page for AI company.” In response, the new version produced a mobile-friendly, accurately functioning website after coding 958 lines.
Petri further noted that “DeepSeek is doing all this with just [roughly] 2 per cent [of the] money resources of OpenAI”.
Another tester, Jasper Zhang, a Math Olympiad gold medalist from the University of California, Berkeley, checked the model with an AIME 2025 problem. According to him, “it solved it smoothly”.
“More confident open-source AI models will win in the end.”
-Jasper Zhang.
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 317
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) provides AI-powered cloud, productivity, and business solutions, focusing on efficiency, security, and AI advancements. On March 24, Piper Sandler reiterated the stock as “Overweight” with a $520 price target. The firm said that Microsoft is best positioned to weather a bumpy macro environment and that investors should “buy the weakness.”
Highlighting discussions from recent investor meetings with Microsoft’s VP of Investor Relations, Jonathan Neilson, and Finance Director of Investor Relations, Josh Elvidge, from last week, the analysts are optimistic about the stock based on the company’s diverse product portfolio, robust commercial Remaining Performance Obligation (RPO), significant operating cash flows, and a substantial AI business expanding at a triple-digit rate. These factors provide Microsoft with a firm base to navigate uncertain economic conditions.
Overall, MSFT ranks 2nd on our list of AI stocks that are shaking up Wall Street today. While we acknowledge the potential of MSFT as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than MSFT but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.
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