Nvidia reached $4 trillion and became the world’s biggest company this year. The company has seen earnings and market value roar higher amid demand for its AI products.

Nemotron-3 Nano (available now): A highly efficient and accurate model. Though it’s a 30 billion-parameter model, only 3 billion parameters are active at any time, allowing it to fit onto smaller form-factor GPUs, such as the L40S.

The evidence is piling up that investors should buy Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) ahead of 2026. Let's look at three reasons to own the stock heading into the new year.

If you look at lists discussing the top artificial intelligence (AI) stocks for 2026, you'll likely find a theme: Nvidia ( NVDA +0.73%) is included, or it's specifically talked about not being included. That's because Nvidia has been one of the best-performing stocks over the past few years, and is the poster child of the AI buildout.

Analyst price targets on Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock were initially all over the place. The rally has continued for over 3 years, with both revenue still growing at breakneck speeds. Some analysts are now making bolder moves and are starting to coalesce near even more ambitious targets.

The race to $10 trillion isn’t about quarterly earnings. It’s about sustaining explosive growth at nation-scale operations. Six companies are within striking distance, but only one will cross first. Here’s who’s positioned to get there,

Nvidia's acquisition of SchedMD is being viewed as a strategic move that strengthens its CUDA-driven software and infrastructure dominance.

Alphabet's own LLM, Gemini, has become a fixture on Google Search -- providing AI-powered summaries to queries that are similar to what users would get from ChatGPT. Moreover, Gemini has also been integrated into the company's Android consumer electronics devices.

Google, Amazon, AMD and Nvidia’s own customers are rising to challenge the 800-pound gorilla.