Cathie Wood: the AI positioning
The thesis, in their own moves
- One of the most aggressive AI bulls: the bets run to AI infrastructure and next-generation compute — CoreWeave, Cerebras — and to nuclear (X-Energy) as AI's energy base layer.
- Wood treats AI as a cross-industry general-purpose technology driving a productivity boom, which is why the positions favour the earliest, highest-beta layers rather than the incumbents.
- Q2 2026 13F: roughly $15.4B across 190 positions, anchored by Tesla at 7.5% with AMD second at 5.3% — after a Q1 in which AMD, Tempus, Amazon, Alphabet and CoreWeave were all added and 17 new names opened.
AI-related holdings (2026-06-30)
| Ticker | Company | Q2 status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| TSLA | Tesla | Held | #1 holding (7.5%) — the physical-AI bet |
| AMD | AMD | Held | #2 at 5.3% — the largest AI-semis position |
| TEM | Tempus AI | Held | 3.8% — AI + healthcare data |
| AMZN | Amazon | Held | 2.5% — cloud + AI platform |
| PLTR | Palantir | Held | 2.4% — AI software |
| NVDA | Nvidia | Held | 1.8% |
| CRWV | CoreWeave | Held | 1.7% — pure-play GPU cloud |
Positions shown are the AI-relevant subset of a much larger book — this is not a complete portfolio. Figures come from the public Q2 2026 13F filing (holdings as of 2026-06-30, filed 2026-08-14) and the reporting cited below. 13F filings are quarterly snapshots and may not reflect current positions.
Sources
- SEC EDGAR — ARK Investment Management Q2 2026 13F, line-by-line filing (filed 2026-08-14)
- Seeking Alpha — Tracking Cathie Wood's ARK Invest 13F portfolio, Q1 2026
- TheStreet — Wood buys another $72M of Amazon
- Motley Fool — Wood adds CoreWeave
Frequently asked questions
Per ARK's Q2 2026 13F (~$15.4B across 190 positions, holdings of 2026-06-30, filed 2026-08-14): Tesla is the largest holding at 7.5%, AMD second at 5.3%, then Tempus AI 3.8%, Amazon 2.5%, Palantir 2.4%, Nvidia 1.8% and CoreWeave 1.7%.
Because compute needs power. The X-Energy position treats nuclear as AI's energy base layer — the same reasoning that shows up elsewhere in the sector, where the constraint on scaling is increasingly electricity and grid capacity rather than chips alone.
On the filings, yes — and at the highest-beta end. The Q2 2026 book runs ~$15.4B across 190 positions, still anchored by Tesla, AMD and next-generation compute names like CoreWeave and Cerebras rather than incumbents; Q1 had opened 17 new names.
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