What LLM isn't forced into a specific language? That'd be a weird language model no one could understand, you need to chose at least one language, ideally the same as the creators speak.

Besides, there is knowledge that is locked behind languages, there are things known in Portuguese that aren't known in other languages, and the same for other languages too. More accessibility to those ideas wouldn't hurt.

To my knowledge, all major LLMs are multilingual. This article could really have used an evaluation of existing models' European Portuguese capabilities.

yeah, they seem all confined to being an American-consultant-Chinese-authoritarian split personality with broad second language capabilities. I suppose they become too incoherent otherwise.

E.g. gemma3:4b can fake simple conversations in several european languages, including portuguese, swedish and finnish.

It's just a database. If you push text in one language into it, it'll likely crap out stuff in that same language, unless the system prompt that also goes in with your query causes it not to.