Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as the next big thing in the business world. Tech giants such as Microsoft, , Tesla, and Amazon have been investing heavily in AI technologies in an effort to strengthen their existing business lines or expand into new ones. With AI becoming increasingly embedded in our daily lives, this investment trend is likely to persist for the next several years.

Investing in alignment with secular trends is a wise strategy for success in the stock market. Hence, it only makes sense for retail investors to open stakes in prominent AI stocks such as Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) and Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG). But which of these two is apt to be the better investment pick over the long haul?

Cloud-native big data analytics and data warehousing company Snowflake helps break the silos of structured and unstructured data (stored on-premises or in the cloud), analyze it, and then derive rich contextual insights for clients. Its highly scalable and secure data platform can work seamlessly with all major cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Azure.

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