We recently published a list of 14 AI News Updates Wall Street Is Monitoring. In this article, we are going to take a look at where UiPath Inc. (NYSE:PATH) stands against other AI news updates Wall Street is monitoring.
Merely days after Donald Trump won a tightly-contested election for the top office in the US, Elon Musk, one of his most prominent backers, received further good news as xAI, the AI startup he founded in 2023, raised $5 billion in a funding round. The latest round of funding brought the valuation of the startup to over $50 billion. News publication The Wall Street Journal reported that Valor Equity Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz were part of the raise, while the sovereign wealth fund of Qatar also participated in the funding process. This set of investors had also backed the startup with $6 billion in funding earlier this year.
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xAI has developed Grok, one of the leading AI chatbots in the world. It rivals the performance of chatbots from tech powerhouses with far greater resources. The firm also controls Colossus, one of the most powerful supercomputers globally. The supercomputer will become fully operational by the end of this year and Musk plans on expanding the hardware at the center of this endeavor to 200,000 GPUs. Last year, the startup also released PromptIDE, an integrated development environment designed for prompt engineering and interpretability research.
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UiPath Inc. (NYSE:PATH)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 34
UiPath Inc. (NYSE:PATH) provides an end-to-end automation platform that offers a range of robotic process automation (RPA) solutions primarily in the United States, Romania, and Japan. Banco Azteca, a financial institution based in Mexico, recently announced that it had implemented a series of artificial intelligence and automation technologies offered by UiPath to improve efficiency and customer service. The firm has developed 190 automations as part of a broader digital transformation for a variety of use cases.
Overall, PATH ranks 13th on our list of AI news updates Wall Street is monitoring. While we acknowledge the potential of PATH 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 PATH but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.
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