Inspirai

Inspirai (启元世界) is a decision-intelligence technology company founded in 2017 by Yuan Quan, a former senior director at Alibaba's cognitive computing lab and founder of Taobao's recommendation algorithm team, and Long Haitao, formerly Alibaba's search advertising architecture lead . The company builds on deep reinforcement learning and distributed decision-intelligence platforms, with its "StarCraft Commander" system winning the 2018 NeurIPS Multi-Agent Competition Learning Track and later demonstrated at NeurIPS 2019, where it drew high praise from DeepMind researchers . Gaorong Ventures led its angel round of tens of millions of RMB in 2017 and has since described Inspirai as part of a portfolio of China- and world-leading AI companies spanning computer vision, NLP, AI acceleration chips, and decision intelligence . As of 2021, Yuan and Long were still positioned as the company's founders .