Jensen Huang’s Singapore Dinner Is Back in Focus Amid Nvidia Probe

A dinner in Singapore in December 2023 is drawing fresh attention after reports linked Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang to Alice Huang, a Chinese business executive whose company later became part of a controversy over access to advanced chips. The New York Times confirmed a photograph of the pair at an Italian restaurant with a small group of colleagues. They are pictured smiling together and holding glasses of wine. The report says Alice Huang had recently restructured a company backed by investors in Shanghai, which would later acquire billions of dollars’ worth of Nvidia AI chips. According to the article, US restrictions barred Chinese companies from purchasing the advanced processors. Alice Huang’s firm, Megaspeed, was set up through a Singaporean shell company, and it was named an Nvidia cloud partner four days after the ownership change. The report says that status gave the company access to the sought-after technology. The meeting is now being viewed in the context of a wider US-China contest over artificial intelligence. The Times has reported that US officials concluded Alice Huang was a Chinese intelligence asset and that China’s Ministry of State Security recruited her. The article says President Donald Trump took no action after being briefed last year. On Sunday, Jensen Huang acknowledged having an affair with Alice Huang, according to the report, and Nvidia said it was conducting an internal investigation. The article stresses that key details remain unclear, including when the two first met and when Alice Huang may have been recruited. Photos from her social media, verified by the Times, reportedly show that they met in several places around the world.