LAC AI Accelerator: An AI-Enabled Region © 2026 World Bank Group,

Advancing AI adoption in Latin America and the Caribbean 1 - What is the LAC AI Acelerator? The LAC AI Accelerator is a regional initiative that aims to foster the development and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) use cases, especially agentic AI use cases, across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries. The initiative will identify high‑potential use cases through an open call and support proponent teams in rigorously validating them. In doing so, the accelerator equips governments with evidence to decide whether to scale AI solutions with long‑term financing or to discontinue them. Lessons from the accelerator will be shared across the ecosystem to enable replication and scaling of effective AI use cases. https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/lac/brief/accelerator-lac © 2026 World Bank Group,