Chinese ‘spy’ Alice Huang met Nvidia CEO years earlier — and was introduced through her tycoon husband

Reports say Alice Huang met Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang years before their relationship became public, through her husband Kang Weigh, who had business dealings with Nvidia while acquiring Chinese video game companies. The earlier connection matters because Alice’s reported closeness to Jensen later became a selling point for business in China, as Nvidia’s chips became central to the artificial intelligence boom.

Alice worked at Singapore-based data centre firm Megaspeed, which did billions of dollars of business with Nvidia and has been accused of smuggling restricted chips to China; the company denies wrongdoing. Reports say 50,000 chips were missing in an audit, while US intelligence agencies reportedly suspected Alice of spying, a claim denied by China’s embassy. Her former investment firm and Kang’s company faced regulatory fines, including a $2.6 million fine against his firm in 2018 and a $350,000 fine against the investment firm in 2025; Jensen has acknowledged an affair.