Nokia’s shares surged over 20% this week after Nvidia stock revealed a $1 billion investment forming a new alliance to develop AI-driven networking and 6G infrastructure.

Nvidia has revealed a $1 billion investment into Nokia as it looks to take a key role in furthering the development of AI-ready networks. The investment will aim to cover a wide range of projects, including 5G-Advanced and 6G networks built to cope with the massive demands brought by AI workloads.

NVIDIA is investing $1 billion to enable Nokia to accelerate development of a 6G platform to support artificial intelligence networks and infrastructure.

NVIDIA and Nokia team to accelerate the development and deployment of next-gen 6G connectivity, adding AI native mobile networks and infrastructure.

NVIDIA and Nokia announced a $1 billion AI 6G partnership to accelerate AI-RAN innovation and drive America’s telecom leadership.

RAN base station will run all processing on the Nvidia GPU. T-Mobile to put the AI-RAN product into trials in 2026.

Nokia CEO Justin Hotard says AI is a "super cycle," where the "long-term prospects are massive."

Shares of Nokia (NASDAQ: NOK) surged 25% yesterday after Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) announced a $1 billion strategic investment to accelerate AI-powered 6G infrastructure development. The stock rocketed from $6.