Alice Huang — known in Chinese as Huang Le — is a 42-year-old businesswoman from China who moved through journalism and finance before entering the AI data center industry. Reported to be the extramarital partner of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, she has also faced allegations of ties to Chinese intelligence, though much of her background remains unclear.
According to the Financial Times and other outlets, Huang is originally from Hunan Province and holds Hong Kong permanent residency. She is said to have worked as a journalist at state broadcaster CCTV and Hunan TV before pursuing a master's degree at Hong Kong Baptist University and moving into finance. However, some details of her career — including her reported media work — have not been officially confirmed.
Huang joined Chinese financial firm Hexi Capital in 2015 and is said to have maintained a roughly decade-long business and romantic relationship with its founder, Kang Wei. The two were regarded as an influential couple in Chinese financial circles, and some acquaintances believed them to be married. Kang was fined a total of 2.9 million yuan ($436,000) in 2018 and 2025 for violating disclosure requirements while acquiring corporate control.
Huang later expanded into AI. In 2023, she joined the management of Megaspeed, a Singapore-based cloud computing company, and worked alongside Kang to attract investment for data center projects in Southeast Asia. Megaspeed faces allegations of smuggling Nvidia AI chips into China in circumvention of US semiconductor export restrictions targeting China.
Huang is said to have first met Jensen Huang at an Nvidia event in early 2024. The two were subsequently spotted together on multiple occasions in Taiwan, and Jensen Huang recently acknowledged the affair. Allegations that Alice Huang has links to Chinese intelligence agencies have not been confirmed, and the Chinese government has denied them.
Huang has not appeared in public since Singapore authorities disclosed their investigation into Megaspeed in October last year. Her current whereabouts remain unknown.
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