Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company Foxconn has launched its first large language model, “Foxbrain.” Trained using 120 of Nvidia’s H100 GPUs and completed in about four weeks, it is Taiwan’s first LLM that is optimized for traditional Chinese and Taiwanese language styles, according to the company’s statement.
Foxconn, which assembles iPhones for Apple, and also produces Nvidia’s artificial intelligence servers, says the model is based on Meta’s Llama 3.1 architecture. It plans to use the LLM to improve manufacturing and supply chain management.
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Initially designed for internal applications, it covers data analysis, decision support, document collaboration, mathematics, reasoning and problem-solving, and code generation.
Foxconn said it plans to collaborate with technology partners to expand the model’s applications, share its open source information, and promote AI in manufacturing, supply chain management, and intelligent decision-making. The company also claims to have received support from Nvidia through its Taiwan-based supercomputer Taipei-1, and technical consulting.
While Foxconn acknowledged a slight performance gap when compared to DeepSeek’s distillation model, it also stated that Foxbrain’s overall performance comes close to world-class standards.
Foxconn’s move into AI marks a significant shift in the manufacturing industry, and supply chains. The company plans on using Foxbrain to increase efficiency and innovation by optimizing decision-making, and improving data analytics. Foxbrain’s broader impact in the fields of AI and technology may also be of interest to investors.
This development highlights the growing role of AI in global industries. AI seems to be at the moment, considered to be of strategic importance in the global economy.
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More details about Foxbrain are to be announced in Nvidia’s GTC AI developer conference, held March 17-21 in San Jose, California. The conference would bring together thousands of developers, innovators, and business leaders, to explore AI and accelerated computing.
Foxconn is the world’s largest electronics manufacturer for big tech like Apple, Microsoft, and Sony with manufacturing hubs around the world, including China, India, Vietnam, Mexico, and the U.S.