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Leo Sun, The Motley Fool
Wed, April 29, 2026 astatine 12:26 PM CDT 3 min read
Many investors followed Warren Buffett's banal purchases for Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRKA) (NYSE: BRKB) for caller investing ideas. Many of its apical holdings -- including Apple, American Express, and Coca-Cola -- person been reliable semipermanent winners that easy withstood recessions and different macro headwinds.
Before stepping down arsenic Berkshire's CEO astatine the extremity of 2025, Buffett approved 1 last large caller concern for that portfolio: Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL). That concern was astonishing due to the fact that Buffett had avoided tech stocks for astir of his career; helium sold galore of Berkshire's different apical holdings successful 2025, and Alphabet inactive faces macro and regulatory headwinds. However, I besides judge it's a compelling semipermanent bargain for 1 elemental reason: AI.
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Why is Alphabet the eventual AI stock?
Alphabet, the genitor institution of Google, is 1 of the fewer companies that tin some ain and monetize AI astatine a planetary scale. By comparison, galore AI companies person promising AI tech but deficiency wide organisation and monetization strategies. Others person monolithic organisation capabilities, but they're babelike connected the AI algorithms and infrastructure of different companies.
Google doesn't person either problem. It's already a full-stack AI infrastructure institution that produces its ain chips (TPUs), ample connection exemplary (Gemini), a unreality platform, and different apps. Its monolithic ecosystem -- including Google Search, YouTube, Android, and Chrome -- enables it to instantly administer its caller AI features to billions of users worldwide.
Therefore, AI isn't an existential menace to Google's halfway businesses. Instead, AI refines its hunt results, improves its targeted ads, and connects much businesses to its unreality infrastructure platform. It's besides firmly profitable and generates astir of its gross from its higher-margin advertizing business, truthful it tin easy spend to grow its much capital-intensive unreality and AI features. Those strengths springiness it a overmuch stronger instauration than different AI companies, and should marque it a reliable banal to bargain and clasp arsenic the marketplace expands.
Why would Buffett see Alphabet a worthy investment?
Berkshire purchased 17.8 cardinal shares of Alphabet successful the 3rd 4th of 2025, erstwhile the banal had an mean closing terms of $209.06 per share. Today, the banal trades astatine much than $350.
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