With the AI landscape constantly shifting, investors may not feel confident selecting individual companies in the space to target. Fortunately, a selective investment in a handful of AI-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can offer broad exposure to this fast-growing space, including everything from infrastructure to hardware, applications, and energy, all in just a few funds.
By casting a wide net with the AI funds below, investors do not put themselves in the position of betting exclusively on either big-name tech companies with AI operations or lesser-known firms with significant potential but also a high degree of risk. Rather, the diversification these funds offer can provide broad exposure, at least until such a time as the industry has matured and new individual names have cemented themselves as leaders.
1. Global AI Exposure, But a Modestly Sized Portfolio
A fund exploring the global AI space, the aims to be a one-stop shop investment for the AI value chain, with companies in the software, services, and infrastructure spaces, among others.
What may keep from being a singular AI ETF in many portfolios is its fairly narrow basket: the fund holds just over 50 stocks, about two-thirds of which are based in the United States. The remainder comes from Taiwan, South Korea, France, and a number of other countries.
ARTY’s top holdings lean on hardware companies like AMD and NVIDIA. This approach has paid off, as the fund has returned more than 40% in the last year, although it is down slightly year-to-date (YTD) in 2026. For an expense ratio of 0.47%, many investors may find the fund’s performance history quite compelling.
2. An Active Approach for Means Greater Flexibility and Responsiveness
Although its portfolio is of a similar size to ARTY’s, the uses an active management approach that differs fundamentally from the fund above. BAI focuses on global AI and tech stocks across market capitalizations and enjoys a higher average trading volume than many other AI funds (its one-month average volume is around 2.8 million).
It’s true that BAI is not a pure-play AI fund, and investors will find some companies that utilize AI but that are not typically thought of as
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