Her sleeveless pink dress, her sparkly heels, her belted white coat. The wine glass she held, the resort she visited, the bench she sat on.
As Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s scandal makes headlines, a breathless public has scrutinized apparent images of the woman at the center of it all for clues to who she is.
Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, drew wide attention last month, when The New York Times reported she had formed a close relationship with Nvidia’s chief and passed information to Beijing. U.S. officials, the Times reported, had concluded Alice Huang was a Chinese spy who had been recruited to influence California-based Nvidia to make its most advanced chips more available in China, a discovery the paper said set off alarms as high as the White House. The scandal has cast new light on the Taiwan-born executive, who just months ago insisted in an interview with The Associated Press that he is “deeply boring. By Sunday, that assertion was upended by his letter to Nvidia’s board of directors admitting to being unfaithful to his wife without identifying the woman with whom he’d had an affair. Eight months later, she was no longer listed as a director at Megaspeed, and her shares were transferred to a Singaporean businessman, Tan Yong Pong, who also is known as James Tan. short seller Culper Research issued a report suggesting otherwise While public records show Alice Huang leaving Megaspeed.
Jensen Huang is a poster boy for the AI revolution and one of the world’s wealthiest people, with a personal fortune that Forbes estimates at more than $150 billion. Alice Huang, once a television reporter in China, became a director at Singapore-based Megaspeed in 2023. Megaspeed, spun off as the overseas arm of a Chinese video game developer, was originally incorporated in Singapore in 2015 as 7Road International, according to corporate registration records. It was renamed Megaspeed International in March 2023, with all of its shares transferred to a British Virgin Islands company.
The company, which describes itself as a “Nvidia cloud partner,” has faced scrutiny from the U.S. over its alleged skirting of U.S. export restrictions and routing a large amount of advanced chips to China. After the renaming, Alice Huang became Megaspeed’s controlling shareholder, according to research by the C4ADS, a Washington-based nonprofit focused on global security. After the accusations of Alice Huang being a Chinese intelligence source emerged, Singapore’s government said it was investigating Megaspeed and that it “does not condone businesses” circumventing or violating other countries’ export controls.
Late last year, Megaspeed denied accusations following reports that it was routing Nvidia chips to China, saying in a statement on its website that “there has been no evidence of any violations concerning the illicit transfer of chips or any illegal activities.
