According to the Wall Street Journal, Foxconn parent company Hon Hai has developed Taiwan’s first large-scale model with advanced reasoning capabilities. Hon Hai said on Monday that it has independently developed an artificial intelligence (AI) large language model with reasoning capabilities and completed training within four weeks. FoxBrain was originally designed for internal use within companies, with capabilities for data analysis, mathematical operations, reasoning, and code generation.

Nvidia provided support to Hon Hai with its Taiwanese supercomputers and technical consulting, allowing the large model training to be successfully completed, the company said. The company said it plans to open source the model to collaborate with industry partners and hopes FoxBrain will drive advancements in manufacturing and supply chain management.

Li Yonghui, director of the AI ​​Research Institute of Hon Hai Research Institute, said that when solving problems, the model “gives priority to optimizing the training strategy rather than relying solely on computing power.” Hon Hai said Li Yonghui's team used 120 Nvidia H100 graphics processing units (GPUs) to complete FoxBrain training in about four weeks.

Hon Hai has announced some parameters of FoxBrain, saying that it is built based on the architecture of Meta's publicly available large language model Llama3.1. It is Taiwan's first large language model with advanced reasoning capabilities and is specially designed and optimized for Traditional Chinese used in Taiwan. Hon Hai said that FoxBrain’s performance is slightly inferior to some of DeepSeek’s models, but it is close to world-class levels. The company said that more relevant information will be announced at Nvidia’s annual technology conference in mid-March this year.

Foxconn is Hon Hai’s product manufacturing subsidiary and is best known for assembling Apple’s iPhones. Hon Hai is facing challenges brought about by industrial transformation and declining profitability in its core electronics manufacturing business, and has begun to expand its business into areas such as AI and electric vehicles.