Blaize Holdings shares surge 19.25% after-hours after strategic AI partnership with Nokia in Asia Pacific.

Blaize Holdings surged 19.25% in after-hours trading following the announcement of a strategic partnership with Nokia to develop and deploy AI systems in Asia Pacific markets. The collaboration, formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding, combines Nokia’s networking expertise with Blaize’s AI inference platform to create edge and hybrid AI solutions for telecom, industrial, and smart infrastructure applications. The agreement emphasizes scalability, energy efficiency, and real-world deployment, aligning with growing demand for AI systems in latency-sensitive environments. This partnership, highlighted as a pivotal step by Blaize’s CEO, directly drove investor optimism, overshadowing broader financial challenges mentioned in other reports.