Alice Huang’s Husband Knew About Alleged Affair With Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang for Two Years, Report

Jensen Huang's relationship with Alice Huang has drawn renewed scrutiny over how the Nvidia chief executive first met her. Chinese businessman Kang Wei, who had known Huang for a decade, introduced the pair despite being Alice's husband, people familiar with the couple said.

Kang appeared to accept the relationship for two years and joked that his wife was Huang's personal assistant. The relationship also intersected with the couple's business ventures across Asia.

Jensen Huang Was Introduced to Alice Huang by Her Husband

Kang and Alice pursued investments in video games, pharmaceuticals and cloud computing. They began running Shanghai Hexi together in 2016, corporate records show.

In 2018, China's securities regulator fined Kang and Shanghai Hexi over failures to disclose holdings in a pharmaceutical company and other violations during a takeover battle. Kang and the company challenged the findings, but the regulator rejected their arguments.

Kang, now in his early 50s, had previously worked as a prominent fund manager in China before establishing Shanghai Hexi in 2010. Alice, who is now in her late 40s, completed a master's degree in media management at Hong Kong Baptist University in the late 2000s.

Their investments in video game businesses created an opportunity for Kang to meet Jensen Huang during the 2010s, when Nvidia was still heavily focused on gaming graphics chips.

A former employee of one of Kang's portfolio companies said he helped arrange the introduction between the two businessmen.

Megaspeed Put Nvidia Chips at the Centre of the Business

In 2023, Kang and Alice acquired a Singapore video game business and renamed it Megaspeed International, with Alice appointed as a director.

Megaspeed secured Alibaba as an anchor customer, helping it gain priority access to Nvidia chips as a cloud partner in November 2023. It installed servers in Malaysian data centres to supply Alibaba, but people familiar with the matter said some were also sent to China, including to Shanghai-based provider Century Litong.

US export controls prohibit shipments of advanced Nvidia AI chips to China. Megaspeed maintains that it complies with all applicable regulations, while Century Litong did not respond to requests for comment.

Megaspeed CEO James Tan Yong Pong said on 12 November that the company had cooperated with US export-control inspections and commissioned an independent review of its Nvidia chips and compliance procedures.

Investigations Do Not Establish an Espionage Case

US officials believe China's intelligence services recruited Alice as an asset because of her access to Jensen Huang. Beijing has rejected claims of a Chinese espionage plot, describing the allegations as groundless speculation.

Taiwan revoked Alice's entry permit while security agencies examined her visits. Officials have not publicly established that she committed an espionage-related offence.

Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs said Alice was investigated over her role in Megaspeed's server procurement activities.

Officials found insufficient evidence that Alice had committed offences linked to Megaspeed but said she provided false information about her role. She received a stern warning and was barred from returning to Singapore.

Singapore stressed that its investigation did not involve espionage, while Kang was detained in Shanghai in 2026 over alleged stock-market manipulation before being released.

Separately, Jensen Huang admitted infidelity in a letter to employees, apologising for breaking his family's and staff's trust. Nvidia declined to comment, while attempts to reach Kang and Alice remained unsuccessful for now.