Chinese company Inspur Cloud is pushing forward with a major strategic upgrade of its cloud infrastructure, aiming to meet surging customer demand for AI-powered solutions and drive nationwide intelligent transformation across industries, its chairman said.

Xiao Xue, executive president of Inspur Group and chairman of Inspur Cloud, said in an interview that in response to China's AI Plus national strategy, the company has launched a distributed intelligent cloud strategy to address organizational challenges in adopting AI and developing new quality productive forces.

This year's Government Work Report states that under the AI Plus initiative, China will work to effectively combine digital technologies with its manufacturing and market strengths, while also supporting the extensive application of large-scale AI models.

According to Xiao, Inspur Cloud plans to upgrade all existing distributed cloud nodes to intelligent cloud nodes within six months, with a target of exceeding 1,000 nodes by year-end.

A distributed cloud service is a public cloud that runs in multiple locations. In cloud computing, nodes are the hardware carrying the application deployments. The more cloud nodes, the better the service.

Since entering the cloud market in 2011, Inspur Cloud evolved from a government cloud system integrator to a distributed cloud service provider in 2019, and is now a distributed intelligent cloud operator. Over the past five years, it has built expertise in data cloud. Inspur Cloud has also developed its own large language model Hairuo, laying a robust foundation for the AI Plus era, Xiao said.

With AI technologies like the Chinese large language model DeepSeek gaining global traction in 2025, demand for cloud services is also surging, experts said.

Wu Lianfeng, vice-president and chief analyst of market research company International Data Corp's China branch, said there is an evident shift toward an "AI-everywhere" business landscape, where intelligent technologies reshape industry practices.

According to Xiao, central to Inspur Cloud's strategy is its "DeepSeek plus Hairuo" dual-engine public service platform, which is designed to better deliver AI model capabilities. The company has deployed over 100 intelligent agents to address sector-specific needs while building a sound intelligent architecture.

"True intelligence requires systemic thinking," Xiao said. "We're moving beyond point solutions to holistic, organization-wide smart systems that respect functional boundaries and operational consistency."

As traditional IT operations struggle to keep pace with AI advancements, Inspur Cloud positions itself as a full-scenario operator of intelligent systems. By coupling technical innovation with operational excellence, the company aims to empower industries, from government to water conservancy, to fully harness AI's transformative potential, the senior executive added.

To fulfill its strategy, Inspur Cloud unveiled a Hairuo intelligent ecosystem, partnering with industry leaders including Baidu AI Cloud, Unitree Robotics, DEEP Robotics and Yealink to promote application of its services.

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