Chinese 'spy' Alice Huang's firms invested in DeepSeek, promised Nvidia's Blackwell chips

Companies linked to alleged Chinese spy Alice Huang have invested in Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek and committed to supplying Nvidia's Blackwell chips, according to a report by The Information.Blackwell is Nvidia's latest generation of graphics processing units (GPUs) and AI accelerators.

Built on the company's Blackwell GPU microarchitecture, it succeeds the older Hopper architecture and is designed to power large-scale artificial intelligence, heavy-duty data centres and high-performance computing.Alice, also known as Alice Wang or Huang Le, is a Chinese businesswoman whose links with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Singapore-based data centre company Megaspeed have come under scrutiny.Meanwhile, Singapore authorities have issued Alice a stern warning and barred her from re-entering the country after finding that she provided inaccurate information during investigations into Megaspeed.Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said the Singapore Police Force (SPF) assessed that Alice had attempted to mislead investigators to downplay her role in the company.The probe…