James Paul 
Foxconn is well known to be one of Apple’s main subcontractors for the massive iPhone, iPad, and MacBook production. Over time, the Taiwanese society has however become a real tech giant who is eyeing other horizons, and is interested in the big trend of the moment: artificial intelligence. Let’s take stock.
Foxconn’s breakthrough
The company has just announced the production of its first language model which has reasoning capacities. It is an internal project that required four -week training.
Named Foxbrain, the latter is capable of analyzing data, reasoning, generating code, and making mathematics, explains the company. Nvidia notably provided him with precious aid via his supercomputer based in Taiwan, specifies The Wall Street Journal.
It was optimized for Chinese and it is the first major project designed in the country. Foxbrain is mainly based on Meta 3.1 available in open source. Depending on the company, he obtained performance slightly below Deepseek, but he is nevertheless qualified as AI as ” world class “so that it seems able to compete with its American and European competitors.
Cited by our colleagues, Yung-Hui Li, director of the Foxconn Artificial Intelligence Research Center indicates that this model gives “Priority to optimized training strategies rather than just using the computing power” To solve a problem.
There remains a question of size, for what use is this product to? Foxconn wishes to open this AI in order to collaborate with certain industrial partners. This model could precisely provide precious help in the production and management of the supply chain, according to the Taiwanese firm.
Foxconn also launches into the automobile
As a reminder, Foxconn can rely on a turnover of 201 billion euros which gives birth to new ambitions. The company thus intends to diversify its activities to alleviate the drop in margins in consumer electronics.
Foxconn has thus teamed up with Yulon Motor to create Foxtron, offering six concepts of electric cars. Despite its expertise in mass production, the company will have a lot to do to conquer the automotive market. Partnerships with manufacturers like Stellantis and Nissan are envisaged to strengthen its position. Foxconn aims 5% of the global electric vehicle market. More information on this major project in our previous article here.
