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“AI Trade Roars as Investors “Look for More Ways to Play Offense” 🚨🚨🚨

The artificial intelligence trade is accelerating again, with investors piling into high-beta momentum stocks as the market tilts further toward risk-taking and speculation.

While broader indices saw modest gains on Monday, the real action was in volatile names tied to the AI and data center build-out — where several stocks surged sharply as demand for compute infrastructure continues to explode.

A Goldman Sachs high-beta momentum long index significantly outperformed the SPY, marking one of its strongest relative sessions of the year as traders rotate aggressively into higher-risk assets.

The rally was led by semiconductor and memory companies, including MU, WDC, and STX, all benefiting from surging demand for AI-related storage and compute capacity. Even QCOM continued its recent rebound amid renewed optimism around global chip demand.

Data center and infrastructure names also saw strong inflows, with companies like NBIS, APLD, and CRWV moving on continued enthusiasm for AI cloud expansion.

Networking and hardware suppliers surged even more aggressively, including GLW, COHR, and LITE, as investors bet on sustained build-out of global AI infrastructure.

Speculative momentum also extended into smaller, high-volatility names like POET Technologies and Navitas Semiconductor, both posting outsized gains as traders chase upside across the risk spectrum.

According to Goldman Sachs strategist Brian Garrett, the market is now firmly in a “risk-on” phase where winners are being added to and capital is being rotated out of non-AI sectors. He noted that strong performance is encouraging investors to “grind for upside,” with forced buying seen in AI infrastructure names.

The message from traders is clear: in this market, AI isn’t just a theme — it’s the trade driving everything else.