STORY: Taiwan’s Foxconn launched its first large language model on Monday (March 10).
It said it plans to use the technology to improve manufacturing and supply chain management.
Foxconn said in a statement the model is called “FoxBrain,” and they completed it in about four weeks.
it’s a major step for the tech giant, which already produces Nvidia’s AI servers and assembles iPhones for Apple.
Foxconn said the model is based on Meta’s Llama 3.1 architecture.
It’s Taiwan’s first large language model with reasoning capabilities.
And is optimized for traditional Chinese and Taiwanese language styles.
Foxconn said there was a slight performance gap compared with the distillation model made by China’s DeepSeek.
But added its overall performance is very close to world-class standards.
The firm now plans to work with tech partners to expand the model’s applications.
