3 Top Artificial-Intelligence Stocks to Watch in May

The global artificial-intelligence (AI) market could grow at a compound annual growth rate of 55.6% between 2018 and 2025, according to Allied Market Research, as a wide range of industries use AI applications to streamline and improve their businesses. However, AI is such a hot buzzword in tech circles that it can be tough to identify the industry's worthy long-term investments. Today, a trio of our Motley Fool investors will highlight three promising AI plays -- Tencent (NASDAQOTH: TCEHY), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA). Leo Sun (Tencent): Tencent, one of China's top tech companies, owns the country's most popular mobile messaging platform in WeChat, as well as one of its most popular payment systems in WeChat Pay. Tencent Video is one of China's leading streaming video platforms, and Tencent Music (NYSE: TME), which was spun off in an IPO last year, is the country's leading music streaming platform.