Alice Huang is the tech executive identified in media reports as the woman accused of spying for China while conducting an affair with Jensen Huang, the head of US artificial intelligence chip giant Nvidia. Public information about her remains limited, though she is also known as Huang Le and reportedly held a senior position at Megaspeed International, a Singapore-based data centre company.
Who is Alice Huang?
According to the New York Times, which first reported that Jensen Huang was the alleged target of a spy operation, Alice Huang is a Chinese citizen recruited by Beijing to gather intelligence on the Nvidia chief. Despite sharing a surname with the 63-year-old, Taiwanese-born leader of the world’s most valuable company, she is not related to him.
The Times, citing individuals briefed on the surveillance, described Alice Huang as fluent in English and well connected at the highest levels of the global AI chip industry. The sector is regarded as highly sensitive, given the race between the United States and China to develop advanced AI systems with potential military applications.
An online search surfaced a brief profile of Alice Huang, including a photograph, on a Chinese fund database. The listing cited previous roles at HSBC bank and as a reporter for Chinese media outlets CCTV and Hunan TV. The contents of the profile and its authorship could not be independently verified, and attempts were made to contact the companies named.
What has been reported about the relationship?
Media reports last week described a close relationship between the two. Jensen Huang told Nvidia employees on Sunday that he was “deeply sorry” for being “unfaithful to my wife.”
A photograph from an industry party in 2024, posted on LinkedIn, appears to show the leather jacket-clad Nvidia boss seated beside a long-haired woman wearing glitzy jewellery, believed to be Alice Huang. The following year, both attended a dinner hosted by Jensen Huang at a Chinese restaurant in Taipei during Computex, the island’s leading tech expo.
Journalists stood outside the restaurant filming through glass windows and doors as Jensen Huang and a woman identified as Alice Huang, dressed in pink, mingled with other guests. At one point, live-stream footage shows Jensen Huang putting his arm around Alice Huang as she kisses him on the right cheek. She is also seen following the Nvidia chief as he re-enters the restaurant after speaking with journalists outside, running her fingers down his lower back.
The Megaspeed connection
US officials concluded last year that Alice Huang was targeting Jensen Huang as a spy, according to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. At the time, she was said to be a top executive at Megaspeed International, which rents computing power to other companies for training and running AI models.
Megaspeed’s website describes the firm as “a core business partner of Nvidia’s computing power cloud business in the Asia-Pacific region.” Its LinkedIn page lists offices in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, with around two to ten employees and 25 associated members. When called, the number listed on Megaspeed’s website was answered by a person who said they were unfamiliar with the company and that the line was residential.
According to the Singapore government’s website, the firm was previously known as 7Road International, suggesting links to the Chinese gaming company 7Road. Washington restricts exports to China of Nvidia’s most advanced silicon chips, citing national security concerns and the goal of maintaining an edge in AI.
The New York Times reported that the US government had been investigating Megaspeed since 2024 over its potential steering of Nvidia chips to China. The company has also reportedly been under investigation by Singapore authorities, who the Times says questioned Alice Huang in 2025. Bloomberg News reported last year on the Singaporean probe into Megaspeed over the alleged smuggling of Nvidia chips to China. In December 2025, Megaspeed said Bloomberg’s reporting “contains misleading information and incorrect insinuations, including suggestions that we may have been involved in illegal chip transfers.”
