ALGER PORTFOLIO MANAGER: AI MOMENTUM ACCELERATING
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Ankur Crawford, Executive Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Alger, highlighted the rapid pace of AI development and assessed Meta's AI strategy implications for the tech and cloud computing sectors.
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