Who Is Kang Wei? Alice Huang's Husband 'Introduced Her' To Nvidia CEO, And Joked About It

Amid the continued decline of Nvidia's stock price, after news broke of chief executive officer (CEO) Jensen Huang's romantic affair with Alice Huang, reports have surfaced regarding Kang Wei, Alice's husband who apperently introduced her to the Nvidia executive on Thursday.

Alice Huang was alleged to be a spy for the Chinese government by US authorities, with Jensen Huang confirming the infidelity and stating that the comapny was undertaking an investigation to see if confidential information was compromised.

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Kang Wei seemingly accepted his wife's relationship with Huang and openly spoke about their closeness as per sources cited by The Wall Street Journal. He reportedly joked about Alice Huang being the Nvidia CEO's "personal assistant."

As per the report, Kang Wei and Alice Huang have had a pattern of forging personal relationships and utilising them to push forward a whole host of business ventures, with Nvidia being the latest in a slew of investment forays into various industries.

This included video game firms, pharma companies and cloud computing organisations, with the couple taking advantage of the connections they could make and transferring ownership stakes between each other. The couple also seemed to have attracted scrutiny from regulators due to their aforementioned activities.

Kang Wei and Alice Huang commenced running the firm 'Shanghai Hexi' together in 2016. Huang, who has a master's degree in media management from Hong Kong Baptist University, joined Wei in his operations, after the former China-based star fund manager started the company in 2010.

Kang met Jensen Huang through the company's investment into video games. Before taking the AI world by storm with its AI semiconductor chips, Nvidia had pioneered the graphic processing unit, a video card that would handle a game's complex 3D geometry and lighting calculations, freeing up space for central processing units (CPUs) to function more efficiently.

The company purchased a Singapore-based unit from a video game firm it had invested in, converting it to a cloud computing company named Megaspeed International, appointing Alice Huang as director.

Megaspeed partnered with China's e-commerce giant Alibaba to aid it in gaining access to data centres outside of the country which ran on Nvidia's AI chips. These chips were under strict export controls implemented by the US government.

Megaspeed told Nvidia that Alibaba would serve as an anchor customer, a major client that could help the company secure priority access to chips under Nvidia's cloud partner programme in November 2023, according to people familiar with the matter. Soon after, Alice Huang reportedly told an associate that she had established contact with Jensen Huang and that Megaspeed's business operations would soon proceed smoothly.

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According to sources, Megaspeed deployed many of the Nvidia-powered servers it obtained at data centres in Malaysia and supplied computing capacity to Alibaba. However, the company's activities allegedly extended beyond Malaysia. The report said some of the servers were shipped to China, including to Shanghai-based cloud computing provider Century Litong, which is owned by a Shanghai-listed company that had previously done business with Kang Wei.

Megaspeed has denied any wrongdoing, stating that it operates fully within applicable export-control laws and complies with the highest standards of legal and regulatory conduct.

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