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The stock is taking the scenic route
Nokia is getting dinged along with other tech-adjacent names as the Nasdaq coughs and traders suddenly remember there are “defensive” stocks for a reason. That’s the boring part of the story. The more interesting bit is that Nokia just added another brick to its AI-and-networking wall.
New AI buddy, same old infrastructure grind
The company, Blaize Holdings, and PT Datacomm Diangraha formed a strategic alliance to deploy hybrid AI inference infrastructure across Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Translation: Nokia is helping build the plumbing for AI workloads, while Blaize brings the compute and Datacomm brings local rollout muscle.
That matters because the market is still hunting for anything that smells like AI exposure without the usual “please buy our GPUs, we’re all out” drama. For Nokia, this keeps the company in the conversation around data center networking, edge AI, and enterprise infrastructure — the unsexy stuff that quietly gets paid.
Why you should care
The stock may be down a little today, but the bigger setup hasn’t changed much:
- Nokia is still riding a strong longer-term uptrend
- The company has been pitching itself as more than just a telecom dinosaur
- Partnerships like this help reinforce the “AI infrastructure” narrative investors love to reward
Big picture
So, yes, the tape is red today. But Nokia is also making another move that says it wants a seat at the AI table — not as the flashy star of the show, but as the company making sure the lights stay on and the servers don’t melt.