Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is at the center of an internal investigation following reports of his relationship with Alice Huang, who has been accused of possible ties to Chinese intelligence. The allegations have not been established as fact. (Foto: Instagram)
Nvidia has opened an internal investigation after CEO Jensen Huang confirmed an extramarital relationship with Alice Huang, who is suspected of working for Chinese intelligence. U.S. authorities have questioned whether Alice Huang acted as a spy for Beijing, in addition to investigating allegations involving her work in the data center industry.
Alice Huang and Jensen Huang share a surname but are not related, according to the report. She worked as an executive at a data center company in Singapore that is suspected of violating U.S. export restrictions to divert Nvidia chips to China. The report says U.S. officials’ suspicions about her activities also extended to whether she was spying for China.
Sources told The New York Times they believed Beijing had recruited Alice Huang to track advances in U.S. artificial intelligence chips and try to pressure Nvidia to make its most powerful models available to the Chinese market. Those claims have not been established as fact. Alice Huang has not publicly commented on the allegations, while China has denied them and called them an attempt at defamation.
People who knew Alice Huang described her to The New York Times as fluent in English and well connected among senior figures in the global AI chip industry. Megaspeed, a data center company where she was previously listed as executive director, describes itself on LinkedIn as “a leading business partner of Nvidia.” The report does not specify what the company’s alleged export violations involved or provide further details about Nvidia’s internal investigation.
