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Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source (techcrunch.com)

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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.

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

What use would an AI be if it was made by French developers? The source would likely be in French (i.e. Variables, functions, objects names as well as comments). Yes, they are that in love with their own language. Check out their names for about everything related to computers...

[-] filister@lemmy.world 68 points 10 months ago

Tell me you know nothing about coding without telling me

[-] REdOG@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Wait until he finds out about obfuscated code he's going to be real frenchy then

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

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[-] porcariasagrada@kbin.social 23 points 10 months ago

wut!? did some bagget french kissed your mom or something?

[-] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago

Isn't it Quebec(Canada) you're thinking about?

Ive never seen french code in my jobs, it's in English, Most Frameworks are in English anyway so why would they code in French

PHP Symfony is from a french company, and it's in English, docs also available in English

And there might be translation of english words in French yes, how is it crazy, that's the definition of a language otherwise we would all have the same words for everything and therefore the same language

[-] Schneemensch@programming.dev 9 points 10 months ago

As a SW Engineer from Germany, you will be surprised how much code exists in other languages. But I would expect companies on the edge of technology, who are either working closely with universities or with open source, that they usually chose English.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

You ever heard of VLC?

[-] msgomez06@literature.cafe 7 points 10 months ago

I'll take this opportunity to highlight that Scikit-Learn (Open Source ML library) is developed in large part by INRIA (based in Paris) and people have been relying on their code for preprocessing, baselines, and the rest for a long time. And all of the documentation is in English.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Good for them. I has different experiences.

[-] evranch@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

On the other side, MicMac which is by far the best free photogrammetry package, is developed by France's IGN and it's loaded with French comments, function and variable names etc...

However the English wiki has come a LONG way since I first had to try to figure it out, and while it's still much more of a box of tools and parts than a single click app, it's likely gone from "set of blueprints and sack of unsorted bolts" to "kit car with rolling chassis"

[-] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago

The difference here is that MicMac was probably developed as an internal tool, with no intention to distribute it at first.

[-] idefix@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Seriously, all code produced by French devs are in English minor a few personal projects

[-] Damage@feddit.it 5 points 10 months ago

Eh get the AI to translate the code to your language of preference.

Personally as an Italian, I think it would be good for Europeans to learn other languages aside from English... And the most widespread are French and Spanish.

[-] Merwyn@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Probably not, this is Quebec. I'm in a french lab and everything is written in English. You don't really have choice as you are collaborating internationally. Even if the lab is based/funded in France, not all of the people inside will be french. They plan to have scientific advisors that are not french according to the link.

[-] 5BC2E7@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I was assuming they would not self sabotage like that but if they do then you can use a llm to fix that issue with tranlations

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

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?

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

While it may have hundreds of millions of speakers, there are still billions of people who don't speak french.

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