Companies linked to Alice Huang, the alleged Chinese spy described as having a romantic relationship with former Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang, recently invested in Chinese AI firm Deep Seek and committed to supplying Nvidia's Blackwell chips, which are banned from sale to China, according to a report by The Information1,2.
Blackwell is Nvidia's latest generation of graphics processing units and AI accelerators, succeeding the older Hopper architecture and designed to power large-scale AI training, data centers, and high-performance computing.
Alice Huang, also known as Alice Wang or Huang Le, is a Chinese businesswoman whose links with Jensen Huang and Singapore-based data center company Megaspeed have drawn regulatory attention. Singapore authorities issued Alice Huang a stern warning and barred her from re-entering the country after finding she provided inaccurate information during investigations into Megaspeed. Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs said the Singapore Police Force assessed that Alice Huang had attempted to mislead investigators to downplay her role in the company.
The reported investment and chip-supply commitment surface as the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security finalizes an expansion of semiconductor export controls designed to block Chinese AI companies from accessing U.S.-made advanced AI chips through data centers in third countries[3]. Jensen Huang resigned as president, CEO, and board member of Nvidia, effective immediately, on November 12[1].
ANALYSIS The alleged channel connecting Alice Huang's network to Deep Seek via Blackwell chips would, if confirmed, represent a concrete circumvention route for the export restrictions the Commerce Department is tightening.