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Their website seems to suggest it is a French company with a US office. The issues around HIPAA would not be there and instead replaced by GDPR.

The blog posts also mention French trained ML.

> Cedille is a new open source French language model created by Coteries. It is trained to understand and write French and is also the largest model of its kind for French. Cedille is trained using large databases of publicly available content on the internet filtered for toxic content.

Expanding into the US, yes - they would need to deal with HIPAA, but until they do they likely don't need to.