Foxconn launches FoxBrain AI to give manufacturing efficiency a boost

Foxconn‘s entry into the AI large language model space represents a significant shift for the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, as it leverages artificial intelligence to transform its core manufacturing operations. The Taiwan-based company’s new FoxBrain model, built on Meta‘s Llama 3.1 architecture, signals how traditional manufacturing giants are increasingly developing proprietary AI systems to optimize their industrial processes and supply chains rather than merely integrating third-party solutions.

The big picture: Foxconn has developed FoxBrain, its first large language model with 70 billion parameters and a 128k-token context window, designed to enhance manufacturing and supply chain operations.

• The model was trained in just four weeks using 120 Nvidia H100 GPUs and Nvidia Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking for scaling.
• FoxBrain implements adaptive reasoning reflection techniques to improve its efficiency and reasoning capabilities.

Technical capabilities: Foxconn claims FoxBrain outperforms Llama-3-Taiwan-70B specifically in mathematical and logical reasoning tasks.

• The company reports “comprehensive improvements in mathematics” compared to the base Meta Llama 3.1 model.
• While showing significant progress against Taiwan Llama, FoxBrain still lags behind DeepSeek‘s models in overall performance.

What they’re saying: “In recent months, the deepening of reasoning capabilities and the efficient use of GPUs have gradually become the mainstream development in the field of AI,” said Yung-Hui Li, Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Center at Hon Hai Research Institute.

• Li emphasized their strategic approach: “Our FoxBrain model adopted a very efficient training strategy, focusing on optimising the training process rather than blindly accumulating computing power.”

Future applications: Foxconn plans to deploy FoxBrain across its three major platform initiatives: Smart Manufacturing, Smart EV, and Smart City.

• The company intends to make FoxBrain open-source and publicly available in the future, though it was initially developed for internal systems.
• Foxconn will showcase its results at Nvidia GTC 2025 on March 20, highlighting its collaboration with technology partners.