Amazon Cloud Technology donated $1 million in cash and cloud + AI resources to the Yao Fund launched by Yao Ming, with the goal of cultivating AI + sports compound talents亚马逊云科技向姚明发起的姚基金捐赠 100 万美元现金及云 + AI 资源，目标培养 AI + 体育复合型人才

IT House October 11th news, Amazon Cloud Technology announced on October 10th that it and the Beijing Yao Fund Public Welfare Foundation (hereinafter referred to as "Yao Fund") jointly launched the "cloud basket map" sports × science and technology education program. The public welfare plan relies on the Yao Fund to cover the national school network and sports talent training experience. At the same time, it relies on Amazon Cloud Breaking Barriers global innovation activities, as well as cloud and AI technology, a mentor team composed of senior solution architects and training and certification learning resources. It aims to cultivate more composite talents with AI literacy and sports professional capabilities, and empower China's sports industry to develop rapidly in the AI era. In this plan, Amazon Cloud Technology will invest US $1 million (IT House note: the current exchange rate is about 6.76 million yuan) in cash donations and cloud and AI technology resources. On the one hand, it will support the implementation of Breaking Barriers in China, covering the three stages of college professional talent training, hackathon practice and the application of results deployment. On the other hand, it will support the development of the Yao Fund basketball season, providing sports teaching, training and event support for the schools covered by the Yao Fund. In the "basket map on the cloud" sports × science and technology education plan, Amazon Cloud Technology introduced Breaking Barriers to China for the first time, supported the training of sports AI talents, and promoted the practical application of AI teaching tools in grassroots sports teaching. In the professional talent training stage, Amazon Cloud Technology will work with Yao Fund to support 10 sports or technical colleges to carry out training. Amazon Cloud Technology will provide industry-leading cloud and AI learning resources, and form a team of mentors composed of senior solution architects to help students master the core skills of generative AI and data science through workshops, face-to-face technical guidance, and skills certification support. In the hackathon practice stage, college students who participate in the training in the early stage will become "builders", creating AI teaching tools around the real challenges from the first-line grassroots sports teaching, such as AI teaching assistants that combine students' physical characteristics with limited facilities and automatically generate personalized training plans. In the application stage of results deployment, Amazon Cloud Technology will further optimize the excellent AI teaching tools incubated in Hackathon, and carry out pilots in the 100 grassroots schools covered by the Yao Fund to provide personalized training guidance and intelligent teaching support for grassroots physical education teachers. At the same time, Amazon Cloud Technology will also support the development of the "Yao Fund Basketball Season", provide basketball education and learning training in schools supported by the Yao Fund, and support students to participate in the National League, so as to promote the development of grassroots basketball sports, help grassroots youth enjoy sports, and promote physical and mental health development. IT House Note: The Yao Fund was initiated by Yao Ming in 2008 under the structure of the China Youth Development Foundation and registered with the Beijing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau in 2018. In line with the purpose of "helping people to help themselves and sports people", it is committed to assisting students to teach and promote the healthy development of young people. By supporting youth development projects and building public welfare platforms, the Yao Fund allows more people to pay attention to young people in underdeveloped areas and help them develop in education, sports, psychology and other aspects. The main projects of the Yao Fund include the Yao Fund basketball season, the Yao Fund charity tournament, etc. By the end of 2025, Yao Fund's public welfare projects have cumulatively covered more than 6,700 rural schools in more than 550 counties (cities and districts) in 30 provinces across the country, sent more than 9,200 volunteers to teach, and trained more than 1,600 rural full-time and part-time physical education teachers.