Mysteriously few details about Nvidia CEO's mistress

American Nvidia and Singapore-based Megaspeed have been working together since at least 2023. Alice Huang, sometimes referred to as Huang Le, is widely described as the data center's "chief executive", but no further details can be found on the open internet.

Other information, personal or professional, is also very scarce. Chinese investigative business newspaper Caixin writes that she is "about 42 years old".

From Reuters' attempts to draw a picture of her past, it appears that she was previously in the financial world, including several managerial positions at the Chinese investment company Shanghai Hexi Investment Management, before she moved into the AI ​​industry. According to Caixin, she should have worked as a television journalist even earlier in her career.

In 2023, however, Alice Huang will have become the majority owner of Megaspeed, according to the American research group C4ADS. Later that year, the shares were transferred to the company Swift Data. Megaspeed describes itself on Linkedin as late as Tuesday as one of Nvidia's main business partners.

Already last year, the New York Times revealed that Megaspeed was under the surveillance of American authorities with the suspicion that the company was illegally passing on desirable Nvidia chips to China. It is the same newspaper and the Financial Times that last week revealed that Alice Huang had an affair with Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang.

Jensen Huang has confirmed it and apologized to both his wife and Nvidia. When it was initiated is not known, but one photo circulating shows him and Alice Huang sitting next to each other at a party hosted by Taiwan's Gigabyte in 2024, and another photo shows them sitting next to each other at a restaurant in Taipei in 2025.

The more serious side of the revelation is that Alice Huang would have been recruited by China's security service Guoanbu to acquire information for the Chinese state in the technological arms race between rivals the US and China. Nvidia says it is not aware of any trade secrets being stolen, and Beijing is calling the whole thing a smear campaign.

But the fact that Alice Huang, despite her reported credentials, is such a hidden person raises suspicions that she is a Chinese intelligence agent, as the Guardian, among many others, pointed out. President Donald Trump, who is close to Jensen Huang, has confirmed that the FBI is investigating the matter.

In addition, three Republican members of the House of Representatives have called Jensen Huang to a closed hearing and tentatively this will take place on November 18. Nvidia itself intends to launch its own investigation "in light of recent reports that founder and CEO Jensen Huang has been targeted by foreign intelligence."