The article is about Kyutai, a French AI lab with an objective to compete with chatgpt and others with full open source (research papers, models, and training data).
They are aiming to also include the capability to use sound, image, etc… (according to this article (French) https://www.clubic.com/actualite-509350-intelligence-artificielle-xavier-niel-free-et-l-ancien-pdg-de-google-lancent-kyutai-un-concurrent-europeen-a-openai.html )
The post article also talks about some French context.
Let’s say you’re right and it will only be in French. It’s a language with hundreds of millions of speakers. Why not have it in French?
While it may have hundreds of millions of speakers, there are still billions of people who don’t speak french.