Alice Huang: Who the Woman in the Nvidia Spy Reports Is
Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, is the tech executive accused in media reports of spying for China during an affair with Nvidia head Jensen Huang. Public details about her and Singapore-based Megaspeed International are sparse, and key claims remain unverified.
Tech executive Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, is the woman accused in media reports of spying for China during an affair with Jensen Huang, head of US artificial intelligence chip giant Nvidia. Public details about her are sparse.
She had reportedly been a top figure at Megaspeed International, a Singapore-based data centre company. The reports describe her as a Chinese citizen recruited by Beijing to collect intelligence on the Nvidia boss.
No family tie
Despite the shared surname, Alice Huang is no relation to the 63-year-old Taiwanese-born head of the world's most valuable company.
People briefed on the surveillance, cited in the reports, say she speaks good English and is well connected at the highest level of the global AI chip industry. The sector is highly sensitive because the United States and China are racing to develop advanced AI systems with potential military applications.
An online search turns up a short profile of her, with a photo, on a Chinese fund database. It lists earlier jobs at HSBC bank and as a reporter for Chinese media outlets CCTV and Hunan TV.
Reporters could not verify the contents of the profile or who wrote it. They have tried to contact the companies it cites.
The relationship
Media reports last week said the two had a close relationship. Jensen Huang then told Nvidia employees he was "deeply sorry" for being "unfaithful to my wife".
One photo from an industry party in 2024, posted on LinkedIn, appears to show the leather jacket-clad Nvidia boss sitting next to a long-haired woman in glitzy jewelry, believed to be Alice Huang.
The following year, both attended a dinner Jensen Huang hosted at a Chinese restaurant in Taipei during Computex, the island's top tech expo. Journalists stood outside filming through the glass windows and doors.
Press livestreams showed Jensen Huang mingling with a woman identified as Alice Huang, who wore a pink dress. At one point he put his arm around her as she kissed him on the right cheek. The footage also showed the two leaving the restaurant in the same car.
What Megaspeed is
US officials concluded last year that Alice Huang was targeting Jensen Huang as a spy, according to media reports. At that time she was said to be a top executive at Megaspeed International.
The company rents out computing power to other businesses so they can train and run AI. Its website calls it "a core business partner of Nvidia's computing power cloud business in the Asia-Pacific region".
On LinkedIn, Megaspeed says it has offices in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, with around two to 10 employees and 25 "associated members".
Reporters called the number listed on the company's website. The person who answered said they were unfamiliar with Megaspeed and that the number was a residential line.
