Shares of NVIDIA Corp. NVDA rallied 4.45% to $144.47 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX rising 1.26% to 5,942.47 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rising 0.80% to 42,732.13.

With tech companies moving on from LLM training to inference (decision-making based on already trained models), Nvidia GPUs continue to stay in demand. However, there’s more to the story. Robotics seems to be the new arena where Nvidia wants to flex its muscles.

U.S. stock indexes are drifting in erratic trading on Thursday to start 2025. The S&P 500 was up 0.1% in midday trading after flipping between an earlier loss of 0.1% and gain of 0.9%. It's coming off a four-day losing streak,

Nvidia stock led the so-called “Magnificent 7” tech stocks higher to start the year after a group-wide selloff in the last days of 2024.

Nvidia stock was rising early Friday, leading the group of Magnificent Seven stocks to start the new year. Shares were up 2.7% to $142.10 in early trading. They rose 3% Thursday and are up 3.6% since the close of last week.