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Datadog
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This US-based cloud-software service should be one of the big winners from the artificial-intelligence (AI) boom. Its tools monitor clients’ servers and databases to troubleshoot problems on behalf of 25,000 firms worldwide. AI requires vast quantities of data, thus greatly expanding Datadog’s potential market. This is a competitive area, requiring heavy research and development spending that has led to losses, but 2023 is likely to have seen a “profits breakthrough”. $133
