Apple CEO Cook: The hybrid AI strategy is "competition weapons" and will grow with AI driving iClaud subscriptions

On 31 July, CNBC reported that Apple CEO Cook had stated at the last financial teleconference that Apple's hybrid AI strategy — that part of AI missions operated locally at the end of the equipment, and complex missions were handled by Google Cloud — was a “competent weapon” as opposed to the multi-billion-dollar data centre input of tech giants like Meta, Microsoft and Amazon. Capital expenditure for Apple ' s second financial season was $2.46 billion, lower than the market forecast of $3.44 billion. At the same time, Cook disclosed that the Apple Plan used AI as the core selling point for iCloud+ subscription upgrades to provide fee-based expansion options for users with high usage of AI, but that the specific fee formula had not yet been finalized。