iShares A.I. Innovation and Tech Active ETF

BAI

Market cap $16.2B

The iShares A.I. Innovation and Tech Active ETF (NYSEARCA:BAI) solves a problem that has tripped up most thematic funds: how to own the AI build-out without locking yourself into a static index that gets stale when the cycle shifts.

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Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF (NASDAQ:AIQ) tracks the Indxx Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Index, which casts a deliberately wide net.

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.

The first quarter of 2026 was the moment the market stopped treating technology as a monolith. Beneath the big tech selloff grabbing headlines, a violent dispersion has been bubbling beneath.

Most large cap growth ETFs hand you a market-cap-weighted slice of the same mega-cap names and call it a day.

The agentic AI wave is already impacting the portfolios of investors, with the “SaaSpocalypse” wiping out north of $1 trillion of value in a ridiculously narrow timespan.

The global artificial intelligence ecosystem is forecast to expand 25-fold during the next seven years. With so much money being plowed into AI development, the investment opportunities in this sector are still huge.

After a record $1.5 trillion year for the ETF industry in 2025, demand has not slowed down in January. Indeed, as of January 21, ETFs had already gathered $103 billion of new money.

AI is entering a long-term growth phase in 2026, with $527B in capex driving a broadening bull market in AI ETFs like AIQ.