Taiwan AI Labs and Phison Electronics Join Forces to Deliver FedGPT All-in-One Solutions with Multimodal and Multi-Expert Capabilities
[March 27, 2025] At AI EXPO Taiwan 2025, Ethan Tu, Founder of Taiwan AI Labs, and Pua, Khein-Seng, CEO of Phison Electronics, engaged in an in-depth dialogue on the future of artificial intelligence. The two leaders announced a strategic collaboration to jointly promote an integrated hardware-software solution—the FedGPT All-in-One System—featuring multimodal and multi-expert capabilities. This solution aims to empower enterprises with a fully on-premise, energy-efficient, and trustworthy ReGenerative AI system built on Taiwan AI Labs’ aiDAPTIV+ technology platform. Designed with cost-effectiveness, ESG compliance, Taiwan’s domain expertise, and global AI regulations in mind, the solution brings practical generative AI deployment within reach for businesses.
photo caption: Ethan Tu (right), Founder of Taiwan AI Labs, and Pua, Khein-Seng (left), CEO of Phison Electronics, in discussion at AI EXPO Taiwan 2025.
Ethan Tu emphasized that with advances in AI infrastructure in 2025, enterprises can now leverage foundational models trained by Taiwan AI Labs to build custom, domain-specific expert models using the enterprise-grade federated GPT platform, FedGPT.
He stated, “2025 marks the first year of ReGenerative AI. With Taiwan’s strengths in both software and hardware, FedGPT enables organizations to train multimodal, multi-expert models using internal data—no internet access or external subscriptions required. It meets regulatory, ESG, and cost requirements, empowering companies to build high-ROI, domain-specialized AI brains. Through our collaboration with Phison, we’re advancing technologies that allow for full-parameter model training and simultaneous service delivery—on a single device.”
Following the open-source movement and regulatory governance in 2024, sustainable AI is set to become the norm in 2025. Developed by Taiwan AI Labs, FedGPT is a federated generative AI platform tailored for Traditional Chinese. Trained on 100 billion Traditional Chinese data points, plus 15 billion in medical datasets and 1 billion in business, finance, and regulatory materials, FedGPT is designed to be lightweight and energy-efficient, while delivering top-tier performance across multiple professional domains. It provides a practical alternative to resource-intensive models, offering accurate, domain-aware outputs tailored to enterprise needs.
Pua, Khein-Seng noted that AI hardware will increasingly move toward high performance, low power consumption, and scalability. Phison’s patented aiDAPTIV+ architecture seamlessly integrates hardware and software to lower the barrier for on-premise AI deployment while ensuring data privacy. By integrating SSDs into the AI compute framework and using proprietary technology to expand DRAM capabilities, organizations can use standard GPUs to fine-tune large language models—dramatically reducing deployment costs and ensuring private, edge-based AI training.
He also highlighted a gap in industry familiarity and AI talent, which FedGPT is designed to address. Ethan Tu described FedGPT as a standardized toolkit for industries to build their own domain-specific models. He likened FedGPT’s pretrained models to PhD graduates from the “Taiwan AI Labs Institute” who then specialize in finance, medicine, or other sectors. These models continue to evolve post-deployment by learning from internal data, transforming from “graduates” into internal experts, delivering high-value outcomes for organizations.
Since its launch in 2024, FedGPT has been successfully deployed across finance, healthcare, education, and the public sector. Notable use cases include Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital (AI-assisted hospital workflows), Taishin Financial Holdings (“Taishin Brain”), and National Dong Hwa University (conversational campus assistant NDHU-GPT).
Key Areas of Technical Collaboration Between Taiwan AI Labs and Phison Electronics:
- Promoting Sustainable, Scalable AI Across Industries
Combining Taiwan’s large-scale foundational models with Phison’s aiDAPTIV+ hardware and Taiwan AI Labs’ AutoML and AutoKB tools, this collaboration enables enterprises to create expert models and internal knowledge bases entirely offline, facilitating scalable AI deployment across all sectors. - Advancing Data Justice and Federated Learning
The Federated Platform (FP) in FedGPT allows multiple departments or organizations to jointly train models without sharing raw data, preserving data autonomy and protecting sensitive information, including trade secrets and customer data, while enabling cross-domain collaboration. - Meeting Global Regulatory and Security Standards
Built by Taiwan-based teams, the joint solution complies with global standards including the EU AI Act, GDPR, and ISO security frameworks, offering trustworthy AI solutions for the future global supply chain. - Optimizing Enterprise AI Speed and Cost
The integration of FedGPT and aiDAPTIV+ supports cost-effective, all-in-one, on-premise deployment—no specialized AI talent or external services needed. This lowers adoption barriers, accelerates deployment timelines, and allows for future flexibility and scaling.
Taiwan AI Labs and Phison will continue developing industry-specific AI solutions, driving full-scale adoption of generative AI technologies across Taiwan’s industrial landscape.
Photo caption: Taiwan AI Labs and Phison Electronics announce their strategic partnership at AI EXPO Taiwan 2025, launching an all-in-one FedGPT solution for trusted, sustainable, and regulation-compliant enterprise AI applications.
Photo Caption: Ethan Tu (right), Founder of Taiwan AI Labs, and Pua, Khein-Seng (left), CEO of Phison Electronics, pictured at AI EXPO Taiwan 2025.
About Taiwan AI Labs
Taiwan AI Labs is committed to building trustworthy AI. The Lab integrates generative AI into smart healthcare, federated learning, AI-generated broadcasting, immersive scene simulation, and news analysis platforms. Its AI music and speech technologies address critical global issues such as misinformation and have been featured in international academic journals and media.
Taiwan AI Labs continues to lead global AI research, working to assemble Taiwan’s “AI national team” by uniting talent, resources, and industries through federated learning solutions across public and private clouds.
About Phison Electronics Corp.
Phison Electronics Corp. (TPEX: 8299) is a global leader in NAND flash controllers and storage solutions. Offering comprehensive solutions from IP licensing and chip design to system architecture and product integration, Phison’s offerings span SSD (PCIe/SATA/PATA), eMMC/UFS, SD, and USB interfaces. Its products serve consumer, enterprise, industrial, and automotive markets. Phison is an active board member of SDA, ONFI, and UFSA, and contributes to JEDEC, PCI-SIG, MIPI, NVMe, and IEEE-SA standards.
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