Markets: the revolution's scoreboard

Ten companies at the center of the AI buildout: chips, cloud, models and applications. What they do, and a snapshot of where their shares trade.

Quote snapshot as of Oct 13, 2026 11:05 AM ET (source: Yahoo Finance via build-time fetch; may be delayed). Not live. Not a recommendation. Raw data.

Not financial advice. Prices are informational snapshots and may be delayed or out of date. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Past performance doesn't predict future results.
NVDA

NVIDIA

$225.11
-0.53%
~1-month change: +6.71% · 52-wk range $164.27–$243.37

Why it matters to the revolution: Designs the GPUs and networking that most AI training and inference runs on. Reported $89.0B of Data Center revenue in the quarter ended Jul 26, 2026.

MSFT

Microsoft

$547.90
+1.25%
~1-month change: +8.41% · 52-wk range $349.20–$553.72

Why it matters to the revolution: Runs Azure cloud and is a major investor and partner in frontier AI. Guided to roughly $175B of calendar-2026 capex.

GOOGL

Alphabet

$355.61
+0.82%
~1-month change: +1.78% · 52-wk range $240.51–$408.61

Why it matters to the revolution: Google's parent. Builds its own models and its own TPU AI chips, and runs Google Cloud.

TSLA

Tesla

$375.97
-0.54%
~1-month change: +4.74% · 52-wk range $297.38–$498.83

Why it matters to the revolution: EVs and energy storage, and it's pursuing self-driving software and humanoid robotics: AI applied to the physical world.

AMD

AMD

$586.91
-1.23%
~1-month change: +18.95% · 52-wk range $188.22–$658.52

Why it matters to the revolution: Makes data center GPUs and CPUs that compete with NVIDIA and Intel for AI and cloud workloads.

TSM

TSMC

$441.69
-0.60%
~1-month change: +5.66% · 52-wk range $266.82–$487.47

Why it matters to the revolution: The contract manufacturer behind most leading-edge AI chips. HPC was 66% of its 2Q26 revenue.

PLTR

Palantir

$207.07
-0.92%
~1-month change: +19.48% · 52-wk range $106.37–$212.94

Why it matters to the revolution: Data-integration and AI platform software for governments and enterprises.

AVGO

Broadcom

$354.55
-0.05%
~1-month change: +2.85% · 52-wk range $289.96–$495.00

Why it matters to the revolution: Designs custom AI accelerators for hyperscalers, plus the networking chips that link AI clusters.

META

Meta

$767.35
+3.28%
~1-month change: +15.29% · 52-wk range $520.26–$779.82

Why it matters to the revolution: Runs Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, builds the Llama open-weight models, and is one of the largest data center spenders.

AMZN

Amazon

$260.34
+0.31%
~1-month change: +2.68% · 52-wk range $196.00–$287.20

Why it matters to the revolution: Runs AWS, the largest cloud provider, which designs its own Trainium AI chips and invests in AI model makers.

Background reading: The compute buildout, explained · AI's power problem

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