Is SoundHound AI worth your investment dollars today? See why you might be better off buying a pair of lower-priced growth stocks in January.

Down 29.4% in the first two-and-a-half weeks of the New Year, SoundHound AI (Nasdaq: SOUN) stock is off to a rocky start in 2025. One thing you cannot say about SoundHound stock though, is that it’s been boring ride.

The price action in SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) is down 35% YTD in 2025 and may fall further, but this isn’t a stock to sell too quickly. The price action is driven by uncertainty and high short interest that fails to account for its position in AI.

When investors think about high-flying artificial intelligence (AI) stocks, Nvidia or Palantir Technologies probably come immediately to mind. While both of those AI stocks indeed delivered huge returns in 2024,