Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer, has launched its first large language model aimed at enhancing its manufacturing processes and supply chain management capabilities.
The Taiwan-based company’s new “FoxBrain” model, built on Meta’s Llama 3.1 architecture, was trained using 120 of Nvidia’s H100 GPUs and completed in approximately four weeks. Foxconn claims it’s Taiwan’s first large language model with reasoning capabilities optimized for traditional Chinese and Taiwanese language styles.
While acknowledging a slight performance gap compared to China’s DeepSeek distillation model, Foxconn maintains that FoxBrain’s overall performance approaches world-class standards.
Initially developed for internal use, the model supports data analysis, decision-making, document collaboration, mathematics, reasoning, problem-solving, and code generation. Foxconn, which assembles iPhones for Apple and produces Nvidia’s AI servers, plans to collaborate with technology partners to expand the model’s applications.
Nvidia provided support through its Taiwan-based “Taipei-1” supercomputer in Kaohsiung and offered technical consulting during the model’s development. Foxconn will reveal additional details about FoxBrain at Nvidia’s GTC developer conference in mid-March.
