SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) stock posted a month of explosive gains across December's trading. The conversational artificial intelligence (AI) company's share price closed out last month up 113.1%, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

The company's share price was down 14.4% at 11:15 a.m. ET amid a 0.1% decline for the S&P 500 index and a 0.3% pullback for the Nasdaq Composite index. The conversational artificial intelligence (AI) specialist's share price had been down as much as 17% earlier in the day's trading.

Speculators have started to make a clear move to start taking from some of the higher performance stocks including SoundHound AI. On Tuesday, shares of SoundHound dropped roughly

Its stock came public in 2022, but it flew under the radar until February 2024, which is when Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) revealed that it had acquired a small stake in the company. Giants such as Mercedes-Benz,