Alice Huang built a career in Chinese finance before emerging in a very different arena: the global race for artificial-intelligence chips. Known also as Huang Le, the Chinese businesswoman held senior roles at a Shanghai investment firm before becoming the controlling shareholder of Singapore-based cloud-computing company Megaspeed International, according to more than 30 publicly available financial records, corporate filings and company materials reviewed by investigators.
Nvidia lists Megaspeed as an official cloud partner on its directory. Megaspeed attracted public attention in October 2025, when the New York Times reported the company was under US investigation over whether it was helping Chinese customers obtain advanced Nvidia chips subject to Washington's export controls.
Alice Huang has since been thrust into the spotlight because of her links with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. The two are not related.
The New York Times reported last month that US authorities had concluded she was a Chinese intelligence asset who passed information to Beijing while developing a close relationship with the Nvidia CEO. Nvidia's board has launched an independent investigation into reports that its CEO was targeted by a foreign intelligence operation, but said it had no reason to believe national security information or company trade secrets had been compromised.
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the FBI was also looking into the matter, but he did not provide further details. Without commenting directly on Alice Huang, Jensen Huang acknowledged on Sunday being unfaithful to his wife, but said he was committed to supporting US national security.
Alice Huang, reported by Chinese financial publication Caixin to be about 42 years old, previously worked in banking and investment management, according to Chinese fund-industry records and an indexed profile on private-fund database Simuwang, which also listed an earlier career in television journalism.
Before her involvement with Megaspeed, she held senior positions at Shanghai Hexi Investment Management. Several posts on Hexi's official WeChat account between 2016 and 2017 identified her as the firm's deputy general manager and executive director.
Huang became Megaspeed's controlling shareholder in March 2023, according to Washington-based research group C4ADS. Incorporated in Singapore in 2015 as 7Road International, Megaspeed provides cloud-computing services and describes itself on its website as an Nvidia business partner.
Huang also served as a director of Megaspeed's Indonesian subsidiary from March to November 2023. At a party hosted by Taiwanese server manufacturer Gigabyte during the 2024 Computex technology trade show, Alice Huang and Jensen Huang were both present.
A photograph posted on LinkedIn showed them seated next to each other, sparking further scrutiny regarding their professional and personal interactions within the high-stakes semiconductor industry.