With less than two months remaining in 2024, now is a great time for investors to think about which stocks they want to carry into 2025. At the moment, artificial intelligence (AI) looks like it will continue to be a dominant theme across the market in 2025, so you might want to start by looking at companies that compete in that arena.

On its recent earnings conference call, Palantir made its case for being the biggest beneficiary of the AI boom -- perhaps even more than other big companies investors might think

Llama has seen adoption as the building block of internal AI models for AT&T, Goldman Sachs, and Shopify. From January 2024 to July, Llama usage grew tenfold, which demonstrates rapid adoption.

During that time, Appian has evolved into an artificial intelligence (AI)-based process automation company, which is sometimes called low-code or process mining. It's streamlined