[Cook: AI applications are ushering in explosive growth and have significantly affected the supply chain] October 16th, at the Global Wealth Management Forum 2026 Shanghai Suhewan Conference held today, Tim Cook, executive chairman of Apple and chairman of the advisory board of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, pointed out that artificial intelligence applications are ushering in explosive growth. Currently, AI-assisted programming has significantly lowered the barriers to programming, making it possible for people who have had little contact with coding before to write code. At the same time, artificial intelligence is already having a profound impact on supply chains in multiple ways. In the past, the quality inspection process relied heavily on manual labor. Today, machine learning makes detection highly automated and more precise. Take iPhone color detection as an example. In order to ensure that the colors of millions of mass-produced devices are consistent, the relevant detection and imaging work is completed with the help of machine learning.