Alice Huang has gained notoriety for being the woman in the cheating scandal involving Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. Believed to be a spy, she is reported to have moved back to China at the end of 2025. However, she has not been seen since then, with even her social media accounts deleted
It’s been four days since Jensen Huang admitted to cheating on his wife, sending shockwaves through the tech world and causing Nvidia shares to plummet. His admission has also prompted the company to hire the prominent Wall Street law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to investigate whether the CEO had become a target of “foreign intelligence”.
The scandal has prompted many questions — some have been answered while many remain unanswered. Among those which are yet to be answered is this: where in the world is Alice Huang, the woman at the heart of the scandal?
Since Jensen Huang’s revelation of his cheating, Alice has not been seen in public, with many wondering where she has vanished to. Her disappearance act has also lent to speculation that she is indeed a spy working for the Chinese government.
Little known about Huang’s early life
Details about Alice Huang, the woman believed to be having an affair with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, remain scarce and sketchy.
She is reported to have been born in a rural area of China’s Hunan province and worked as a journalist at state-owned media organisation CCTV. She later moved to Hong Kong, where she pursued a master’s degree in media studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, with a former classmate describing her to the Financial Times as “well-liked, easy-going and ambitious”.
More from ExplainersAlice Huang, who is also known as Huang Le, then went into finance, with stints at HSBC, the global banking firm based in London, and Chinese state-owned financial conglomerate CITIC, according to a Chinese private equity database site and a social media post by Shanghai Hexi Investment Management, another former employer.
However, there is no public record of Huang working at either Hunan TV or CCTV. HSBC has also not confirmed her employment.
Notably, even a post by a person identified as Bai Jie, who said that she worked with Alice as a journalist, disappeared from Weibo. According to a Washington Post report, Jie had referred to Alice as “formidable,” but this post disappeared. When Jie was asked to comment, she denied making any such remark.
Alice Huang enters Jensen Huang’s orbit
It was years before Alice Huang met Jensen Huang and the path is long and winding. Alice is believed to have worked at Hexi Capital in 2015, which was founded by Kang Wei. Notably, many media reports state that Alice and Kang were in a relationship, with some even noting that they were married.
According to a New York Times report, Alice met Nvidia’s Jensen Huang for the first time in December 2023 at an Italian restaurant in Singapore. At the time, she was the top executive of a firm known as Megaspeed, a subsidiary of a Chinese gaming company.
A photo shows Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang with Alice Huang in Taipei, Taiwan in June 2024. File image/Reuters
It was Huang who was behind Megaspeed’s pivot from its Chinese parent to lending clients computing power from its data centres, which were powered by Nvidia chips.
It was her stint at Megaspeed that helped her get closer to Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. In fact, she even bragged about her proximity to the Nvidia boss at a tech event in Taipei in June 2024. As Parker Schmitt, chief executive of NetThunder, a data software provider, told the New York Times, “She said, ‘I bet you guys I can get Jensen here’, and then Jensen immediately showed up,” and drank a whiskey shot with the group.
Since then, Alice was seen on repeated occasions with Jensen Huang, even travelling to the United States in 2025 and visiting Huang at Nvidia’s offices with other executives. In May 2025, the two were seen in Taiwan “pecking each other on the cheek and getting into the same car when leaving” the same venue.
But trouble began to brew for Alice Huang last October when Singaporean authorities announced that they were investigating Megaspeed for suspected chip smuggling to China.
It is this investigation that prompted Alice Huang to reportedly move back to China.
Alice Huang, a Chinese executive linked to the data centre company called Megaspeed, attending a dinner hosted by Nvidia’s chief executive and co-founder Jensen Huang at a restaurant in Taipei on May 22, 2025, during Computex, the island’s top tech expo. File image/Reuters
No trace of Alice Huang
Since reportedly moving back to China, Alice Huang has not been seen in public. But The Wall Street Journal reported that two individuals who contacted her earlier this year said she was there.
Her WeChat and email accounts have also been deleted, and she hasn’t been reachable via telephone either.
Meanwhile, the Taiwan immigration agency has stated that Alice used a Hong Kong passport to enter Taiwan. Taiwan’s Interior Minister Liu Shyh-fang said Alice Huang “did indeed enter the country, but she is currently overseas”.
“If we had known she was a spy, we certainly would not have let her enter Taiwan,” Liu told lawmakers in parliament, as reported by AFP.
He also added that Alice “has had her permit revoked, meaning she can’t enter Taiwan again”.
The Chinese government is also mum on Alice’s whereabouts. When a Bloomberg reporter asked whether Alice Huang is a Chinese citizen and her current whereabouts, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said that claims of her being a Chinese spy were “pure speculation, smears and slander,” adding that Beijing had already responded to the matter.
The limited information about her whereabouts has left questions surrounding her role as a Chinese spy. As Dennis Wilder, a former top China analyst for the CIA, told the Washington Post, “Her background smells like a legend to me, which is what we do in the CIA. This is all a little too mysterious. If she weren’t under suspicion, why take everything down.”
With inputs from agencies
