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Inspur Group (浪潮集团有限公司) is a major Chinese information-technology and AI conglomerate headquartered in Jinan, Shandong, with businesses spanning cloud computing, servers and storage, big data, and artificial intelligence. Its digital-human-relevant work is not carried out by the parent company directly but is distributed across several subsidiaries, and accurate attribution matters because the assets most often described as "Inspur digital humans" originate in specific units rather than in the parent.
The principal vehicle for digital humans is Inspur Cloud (浪潮云), an independent subsidiary founded in 2015, headquartered in Jinan, focused on cloud computing services for government and enterprise clients. Inspur Cloud develops the Hai Ruo (海若) large-model line, which is an industry-oriented LLM family rather than a digital human in itself. Introduced by Inspur Cloud as an industry large model, Hai Ruo initially targeted six sectors: government, transportation, emergency response, manufacturing, healthcare, and agriculture. It underpins applied scenarios such as electronic medical record generation, where it can produce an admission record in around fifteen seconds, and government document drafting, and it serves as the language backbone for the company's digital-human and agent deployments. Documented digital-human and intelligent-interaction applications from Inspur Cloud include smart customer-service and seat-assistant tooling for 12345 government hotlines, and water-resources scenarios pairing a digital human's natural-language interaction and dynamic visualization with large-model analysis for decision support, public science communication, and engineering operations. Most recently, in a pharmaceutical-marketing application, on May 13, 2026, at the third DATA+AI pharmaceutical marketing seminar in Shanghai, Inspur Cloud and Motech Pharma (摩熵医药) signed a strategic agreement and first-launched what they billed as China's first pharmaceutical AI digital-human practical sparring product, a marketing training tool for pharmaceutical practitioners.
The Yuan model (源 / Yuan 1.0) is frequently attributed loosely to "Inspur" in digital-human discussions, but it originates in a different unit. The Inspur Artificial Intelligence Research Institute unveiled Yuan 1.0 in Beijing in 2021 as one of the world's largest language models, with 245.7 billion parameters, and it was presented as the large-scale pre-trained language model of Inspur Electronic Information Industry Co., Ltd. — that is, Inspur Information (浪潮信息), the group's server and AI-hardware listed company, not the parent or Inspur Cloud. Yuan is a Chinese-language foundation model. While it has been used to drive conversational and generative applications, the public release centered on the model itself, with stated plans to open its corpus and API, so descriptions of an Inspur-published, ready-made "full-stack digital human assistant" built on Yuan should be treated cautiously absent a specific Inspur project of that kind.
Shandong Inspur Intelligent Production Technology Co., Ltd. (山东浪潮智能生产技术有限公司) is an Inspur Group subsidiary positioned within the conglomerate's industrial digitalization and intelligent-manufacturing activities rather than consumer-facing virtual-character production. Its relevance to digital humans is contextual rather than direct: it sits inside the same corporate ecosystem in which digital humans, digital twins, AI assistants, and embodied enterprise interfaces intersect, but it is not the group's primary digital-human producer. Much of Inspur's industrial digital-twin and smart-factory work is publicly attributed to a separate unit, Inspur Digital Enterprise (浪潮数字企业), which delivers digital-twin, smart-logistics, and manufacturing-execution transformation through its Haiyue (海岳) industrial software suite, so this subsidiary should not be treated as the group's main digital-twin or digital-human vehicle without further confirmation of its specific scope.