- Wan was used for a one-minute video featuring 100 academy participants, according to Alibaba.
- The company plans to transfer the Games' private cloud to Senegal after the event.
Generative AI at the Games
Alibaba outlined video-generation and conversational AI services for the Dakar 2026 Summer Youth Olympic Games in a November 2 company announcement. The Games run from October 31 to November 13, so the release describes applications at an event already under way.
The company says its Wan video-generation model was used for a one-minute opening-ceremony drum-performance video featuring 100 participants from the Dakar 2026 Learning Academy. At the official festival site, visitors can also generate short videos of themselves playing the Senegalese Sabar drum.
Visitor services and planned cloud legacy
An AI agent powered by Alibaba's cloud-based technology answers questions about Dakar 2026 and the Youth Olympic Games' history, the company said. These are Alibaba's descriptions of its deployments, rather than independent evaluations of their quality.
The organizing committee will use an Apsara Stack private cloud for digital operations, including ticketing and e-visa processing. Alibaba says that infrastructure will be handed to Senegal after the Games as a national cloud platform, with subsequent access to its AI capabilities and Qwen open-weight models.
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