Alice's husband, Kang, who had known Jensen Huang for about a decade, had reportedly accepted their relationship for two years and openly discussed their closeness. (Source: X)

When Jensen Huang met Alice, her Chinese husband played matchmaker

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was introduced to Alice Huang by her husband, Kang Wei, who reportedly knew about their relationship and even joked about their closeness. The couple built a business empire spanning technology and cloud computing, but their links to Huang and alleged exports of restricted Nvidia AI chips to China have triggered investigations.

by · India Today

In Short

  • Jensen Huang was introduced to Alice Huang by her husband Kang Wei
  • Kang accepted their relationship and joked about Alice being Jensen's assistant
  • US probes allege Alice was recruited by Chinese to target Jensen

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang was introduced to Alice Huang, who later became his romantic interest, by her husband, Chinese businessman Kang Wei, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people who know the couple.

Kang, who had known Jensen Huang for about a decade, had reportedly accepted their relationship for two years and openly discussed their closeness. He sometimes joked to associates that his wife was Jensen Huang's personal assistant. However, the report does not specify when Kang introduced Alice to Jensen Huang.

Now, Kang's relationship with Jensen Huang has come under scrutiny as authorities examine the couple's business activities and their links to the Nvidia chief.

US officials believe Chinese intelligence services recruited Alice Huang as an asset because of her access to Jensen Huang, while Nvidia's board is preparing to remove him as chief executive after another alleged affair emerged on Wednesday.

In a letter to employees on Sunday, Jensen Huang admitted being unfaithful to his wife and apologised for breaching the trust of his family and staff.

Kang and Alice Huang used their personal connections while pursuing business opportunities in China, Singapore, Taiwan and other markets, The Wall Street Journal further reported, citing people familiar with their dealings.

Over the past decade, they moved from one venture to another, involving video game companies, pharmaceutical takeovers and cloud computing.

They established related entities, transferred holdings between themselves and drew on their contacts to pursue business opportunities.

Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips became their latest business focus after years of pursuing fast-growing investment opportunities and occasionally running into regulatory trouble.

The couple is now facing several investigations, with scrutiny widening over their relationship with Jensen Huang.

ALICE HUANG'S COMPANY UNDER US SCANNER

Authorities in the US and Singapore are examining Megaspeed, a Singapore-based cloud services provider, over allegations that it may have transshipped billions of dollars' worth of export-restricted Nvidia AI chips to China.

People familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal that Megaspeed sent some Nvidia-powered servers to China, potentially bypassing US restrictions on such exports.

Taiwanese authorities have revoked Alice Huang's entry permit and barred her from returning to the island, where she met Jensen Huang several times.

Officials in Taiwan said they were investigating whether her visits involved intelligence gathering or breached the island's anti-infiltration law.

Singapore authorities detained Alice Huang in the summer of 2025 and prevented her from leaving the country, according to people briefed on the detention, The Wall Street Journal reported. The travel restriction was later lifted, and she was in China earlier this year, they said.

Singapore's government has said its investigation into Megaspeed is continuing but that it has not examined Alice Huang's links to China. It did not respond to questions about her detention.

Kang was detained in Shanghai earlier this year in connection with inquiries into alleged stock market manipulation involving listed companies. He was recently released and later shared a photograph of himself with friends at Stanford University, according to people who know the couple.

HOW ALICE, HER HUSBAND BUILT THEIR BUSINESS EMPIRE

Kang, now in his early 50s, was previously a prominent fund manager in China before establishing Shanghai Hexi in 2010. Alice Huang, who is in her late 40s, pursued a master's degree in media management at Hong Kong Baptist University in the late 2000s, according to another graduate of the programme.

It could not be established when the couple met, but Shanghai Hexi, whose name translates as "harmonious prosperity", became central to their business partnership. Corporate registry records show that they began jointly running the company in 2016.

Shanghai Hexi invested in several technology businesses, including video game companies. Those investments gave Kang an opportunity to meet Jensen Huang in the 2010s, when the latter was an emerging Silicon Valley chief executive. Nvidia primarily made chips for video games at the time. A person who worked at one of Kang's portfolio companies said he helped arrange a meeting between the two men in Asia.

China's securities regulator fined Kang and Shanghai Hexi in 2018 for failing to disclose their holdings in a Chinese pharmaceutical company and for other violations linked to a takeover battle. Kang and the company challenged the findings at official hearings, but the regulator rejected their arguments.

By the early 2020s, Kang and Alice Huang had shifted their attention to cloud computing, which provides remote computing capacity to corporate customers. Through a company partly owned by a fund they managed, they began developing relationships with some of China's major technology groups.

In 2023, the couple moved into AI data centres. Corporate filings and people familiar with the matter said they acquired the Singapore division of a video game company in which they had previously invested. The unit was renamed Megaspeed International in March 2023, with Alice Huang registered as a director. Kang worked alongside her to develop the company, the people said.

HOW MEGASPEED GAINED ACCESS TO NVIDIA AI CHIPS

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company that has also expanded into AI, played an important role in Megaspeed's launch, according to people familiar with negotiations at the time.

The US had begun imposing export restrictions on advanced chips in late 2022, preventing Nvidia from selling them directly to China over concerns that they could strengthen the country's military and surveillance capabilities.

Alibaba was seeking a partner that could provide access to computing capacity from data centres outside China equipped with Nvidia chips, the people said. Megaspeed told Nvidia that Alibaba would be its anchor customer, offering enough business to help the company secure priority access to chips as an Nvidia cloud partner in November 2023.

Soon afterwards, Alice Huang told an associate that she had contacted Jensen Huang and that Megaspeed's operations would begin smoothly.

The company installed many of the Nvidia servers it acquired at data centres in Malaysia and supplied computing capacity to Alibaba, according to people familiar with the matter.

Megaspeed also shipped some servers to China, including to Century Litong, a Shanghai-based cloud computing provider owned by a Shanghai-listed company that had previously conducted business with Kang, the people said.

US rules prohibited the export of advanced Nvidia AI chips to China at the time and continue to do so. The Information had previously reported the connection between Megaspeed and Century Litong.

Megaspeed has said that it operates "fully within the bounds of all applicable export control regulations" and upholds the highest standards of lawful conduct. Century Litong did not respond to a request for comment.

Kang and Alice Huang subsequently sought to expand their operations. Investors approached by the couple in Shanghai and Singapore said they presented several data centre proposals between late 2024 and June 2025, including two projects in Southeast Asia and one in Shanghai.

The prospective investors said the couple claimed that investments could triple in value within three years and expressed confidence that they had ways to bring Nvidia chips into China.

Photographs and accounts from people who encountered them show that Alice Huang met Jensen Huang repeatedly during the same period between 2024 and 2025. At a dinner in Taiwan in May 2025, local media captured Jensen Huang's daughter cheerfully taking photographs of the pair.

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