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CEO of the world's richest company: Famous billionaire's partner revealed to be an agent
According to The New York Times, Chinese intelligence deployed an agent who established contact with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to ease US restrictions on artificial intelligence (AI) chips. The incident has caused a widespread stir.
The CEO of Nvidia, one of the world's richest companies, is at the center of an extraordinary incident. According to a report published by The New York Times, China's Ministry of State Security (M.S.S.) conducted an espionage operation targeting Nvidia's chief executive, Jensen Huang.
The report stated that the person who approached the leader of Nvidia, which produces hardware used by the US military in artificial intelligence (AI) training and processing workflows, was "Alice Huang" (Huang Le), who served as managing director at Singapore-based Megaspeed until at least 2023.
His former partner turned out to be an undercover spy
The two individuals, who share no family relation, have been photographed together since at least 2024, and their relationship reportedly lasted about two years. It is not yet known what information the alleged Chinese intelligence operative obtained from Jensen Huang, one of the world's richest executives. Chinese officials allegedly tasked the operative with getting Huang to lobby for the sale of advanced Nvidia graphics processors to China.
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Alice Huang had been under US surveillance for at least a year. The report noted that Megaspeed was linked to the Chinese military through an investment in a cybersecurity subsidiary of defense electronics provider China Electronics Technology Group, and that a senior executive at the firm worked directly for Chinese intelligence.
Megaspeed also reportedly made contact with officials at Taiwan-based hardware maker Gigabyte. The company attempted to partially bypass US export restrictions by building data centers with Nvidia chips in Southeast Asia and leasing that capacity to Alibaba. The extent to which this plan succeeded on the ground has not been confirmed.
The same report stated that Jensen Huang approached Donald Trump in 2025 and secured permission for limited sales of the company's second most powerful chip to China. However, Huang's efforts to export the top-tier Blackwell series were reportedly rejected by Trump. In a statement made in May, Huang said that Blackwell and its successor, the Rubin architecture, should not be exported to China.
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US intelligence agencies briefed Trump last year about the relationship between the two Huangs, but Trump chose not to take any action at the time. When Jensen Huang learned about the allegation that Alice Huang was a Chinese operative was not disclosed. Following public reporting on the matter, Republicans in the US Congress requested that Huang testify regarding the allegations in a closed hearing on November 18.
Responding to the allegations, Nvidia spokesperson John Rizzo said the company does not share trade secrets with clients and that clients made no lobbying requests. Stating that the Chinese government supports domestic alternatives including Huawei and strictly restricts the entry of Nvidia data center products into the country, Rizzo noted that contact between the two individuals was not unusual, as the chief executive meets with thousands of industry representatives each year.
A spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy characterized the claims in the report as baseless smears. Alice Huang, the CIA, and the White House did not comment on the matter.
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This article was translated from Turkish. Read the original article in Turkish.
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