Jensen Huang Affair With Alleged Chinese Spy: Timeline
Original: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy: a timeline
Why This Matters
Nvidia controls critical AI chip supply; any export control breach has major geopolitical weight.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, 63, admitted to an extramarital affair with Alice Huang, a Megaspeed executive U.S. officials believe is a Chinese spy. Megaspeed purchased $4.8B in Nvidia chips over two years, raising national security concerns.
Jensen Huang, Nvidia's co-founder and CEO, has acknowledged cheating on his wife of 40 years with Alice Huang (no relation), a Chinese citizen and executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based AI infrastructure firm. U.S. officials allege Alice Huang has been feeding intelligence to Beijing.
The business ties run deep. Megaspeed purchased $4.8 billion in Nvidia chips over two years, and Alice Huang's family reportedly built a network of companies across China and Singapore to acquire Nvidia hardware. One of those entities, Shanghai Century Litong—founded in 2023—became a Nvidia preferred cloud partner, reportedly facilitating $7.5 billion in chip purchases, including chips banned for Chinese buyers. Both the U.S. and Singapore had previously probed Megaspeed over suspected illegal chip transfers to China.
Nvidia's general counsel Tim Teter reportedly contacted Commerce Under Secretary Jeffrey Kessler in 2025 during a government probe into Megaspeed, asking whether the Trump administration had a hand in detaining Alice Huang. Separately, in early 2025, Alice Huang and a business partner were pitching China-based investors on an Asian data center, claiming GPU access was no obstacle.
Huang has since pulled out of speaking engagements at the ElevenLabs Summit and Anthropic CEO Forum. President Trump, asked about the situation, called Huang "a fine person" while adding, "you never know what's going on."