Taipei: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. announced the launch of its first traditional Chinese version of an advanced artificial intelligence Large Language Model (LLM), named FoxBrain. The development of FoxBrain was facilitated by the technology assistance of U.S.-based AI chip designer Nvidia Corp.
According to Focus Taiwan, Hon Hai, known for assembling iPhones and manufacturing AI servers in partnership with Nvidia, envisions FoxBrain to enhance its data analysis capabilities, which will benefit future initiatives in smart manufacturing, electric vehicle, and smart city development. LLMs, such as FoxBrain, are pivotal in natural language processing tasks, including language generation, which are crucial for developing advanced AI servers.
Nvidia played a key role by providing assistance and consultation through its "Taipei-1" supercomputer. This enabled the Hon Hai Research Institute to leverage the Nvidia NeMo AI service platform to successfully train the FoxBrain LLM. During this training process, the AI research team utilized 120 Nvidia H100 graphics processing units (GPUs) along with Nvidia Quantum-2, enhancing the speed and efficiency of their network performance.
Hon Hai emphasized that the training was completed in a mere four weeks, achieving low costs and high efficiency. The FoxBrain model displays strong understanding and reasoning capabilities, excelling in mathematics and logical reasoning tests, and it also enhances the language style for Taiwanese users.
The model's capabilities span various domains, including data analysis, decision-making aid, writing assistance, mathematics, code generation, and problem-solving through its inferential skills. Hon Hai plans to make FoxBrain open source, allowing other enterprises and researchers to access AI computing codes, thereby promoting their own products with LLM technologies.
FoxBrain has demonstrated significant progress in mathematics tests, surpassing the performance of Taiwan Llama, a top-ranked Chinese language model, and exceeding the mathematical reasoning abilities of Meta's current models. Although it slightly lags behind the China-based AI startup DeepSeek, FoxBrain is nearing the best global standards.
Hon Hai anticipates that the FoxBrain platform will propel the growth of smart devices and advance applications in manufacturing, supply chain management, and smart decision-making, driven by AI development. The Taiwanese manufacturing leader is set to showcase FoxBrain at Nvidia's GPU technology conference in San Jose, California, beginning March 17. The company's keynote speech, titled "From Open Source to Frontier AI: Build, Customize, and Extend Foundation Models," will highlight FoxBrain's achievements.
In recent years, Hon Hai has focused on diversifying its product range through the "3 plus 3" strategy, aiming to evolve from contract manufacturing into the hardware and software domains. This initiative targets three emerging industries-electric vehicles (EVs), robots, and digital health care-utilizing AI, semiconductor, and communications technologies, with EVs as the core business focus.