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SoundHound has a huge opportunity with voice-first AI agents.
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UiPath has a big opportunity to reinvigorate growth with a spate of new partnerships.
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GitLab’s new hybrid seat-plus-usage pricing model could be a huge growth driver.
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SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) has come a long way from being just a voice recognition company. It is now trying to lead a new category of voice-first artificial intelligence (AI) agents built to handle tasks in real time through natural conversation. Unlike typical chatbots that simply respond to queries, its technology understands a user’s intent before they even finish speaking, which is a big leap for how people will interact with AI agents. That gives it a meaningful edge as companies look for AI that can execute responses rather than just answer questions.
The company’s acquisition of Amelia broadened its reach into heavily regulated industries such as healthcare and finance. Meanwhile, by merging Amelia’s conversational intelligence with its own speech-to-meaning platform, it rolled out Amelia 7.0, which acts more like a digital employee able to integrate with enterprise systems and complete entire transactions. SoundHound has started migrating some of its biggest clients to this new platform and even acquired Interactions to improve how its agents work together.
The company has been in hypergrowth mode, with revenue last quarter jumping 217% year over year to $42.7 million. Meanwhile, the company is close to reaching a profitability inflection point, with management projecting it will reach adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) profitability by the end of 2025.
While competition is fierce and the stock trades at a rich forward price-to-sales (P/S) ratio of 37 times 2026 consensus estimates, if SoundHound’s voice-first approach to agentic AI proves to be a big differentiator, then the payoff could be substantial over the long run.
UiPath (NYSE: PATH) made its name in robotic process automation (RPA) but is quickly evolving into something much bigger as it builds out what it calls agentic automation where AI agents, bots, and humans can all work together across a company’s workflows. It has recently been lining up strong partners to push this vision forward, including with Nvidia, Alphabet, and OpenAI.
However, its most intriguing collaboration is with Snowflake. By linking its agentic automation platform with Snowflake’s Cortex AI, UiPath is giving businesses the ability to move straight from data insights to automated, real-time actions. That’s a compelling value proposition that strengthens UiPath’s position as a serious alternative to Palantir’s data-driven decision platforms. The real edge here is that customers can tap into the data they already store in Snowflake. That capability directly challenges Palantir’s core strength of turning data into real-world action and could help Snowflake clients see faster returns on their data investments.
While UiPath’s growth has slowed, its showing signs of starting to pick back up. More than 450 customers are already building AI agents on its platform, and these new collaborations give it a real opportunity to see growth start to meaningfully accelerate. At a forward P/S ratio of below 5 times based on 2026 revenue estimates, UiPath could have huge upside if it can return to its prior high growth.
GitLab (NASDAQ: GTLB) is another company that is going through a transition. It has been steadily expanding beyond its roots in DevSecOps to become a full software development lifecycle platform, which makes it an essential tool for developers who want to build and ship code faster and more securely. Growth has been consistent, with revenue climbing between 25% and 35% for eight straight quarters, including a 29% gain last quarter to $236 million. Its dollar-based net retention rate stands at a healthy 121%, showing that existing customers continue to add more seats and move to higher-tier plans.
One of its potential big growth drivers is Duo, an AI agent that handles repetitive tasks so developers can focus on writing code. This is a real benefit, given that developers typically spend only about 20% of their time coding. The fear that AI would shrink the need for developers has not played out. Instead, the pace of software creation is speeding up, which is good news for GitLab.
The company’s biggest opportunity, however, may be its move to a hybrid seat-plus-usage pricing model. This should let it capture more revenue as customers scale up while also protecting it if coding teams eventually shrink. GitLab is now adding a lot more value to customers, so there should not be any major pushback to this new model.
Trading at a forward price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple of only 7 times 2026 analyst estimates, the stock is inexpensive with a huge opportunity in front of it.
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Geoffrey Seiler has positions in Alphabet, GitLab, and UiPath. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Alphabet, GitLab, Nvidia, Palantir Technologies, Snowflake, and UiPath. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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