[amarant]

Not remotely true in my estimation. I don't really speak Norwegian, but I do speak Swedish(which means I mostly understand Norwegian as they're very similar). Every model I've tried speaking Swedish to does it perfectly. I'd be surprised if the same isn't true for Norwegian already

[schubidubiduba]

Of course they speak swedish. But often, they do not reason in Swedish and do not search in swedish. Swedish makes up a tiny fraction of training data, while the vast majority is English, from the US. Which means the answers will always have a bias towards US culture, even if you ask in Swedish and the LLM answers in Swedish.

[NorwegianDude]

While Google does a good job with language support in their models, GPT-5.5 can't write proper Norwegian. It's even making up words that does not exist.

[mistrial9]

different models have been very different in this way.. almost ten years ago the French made a very large effort to capture languages.. the release notes I read at the time IIR had quite a few languages from South Asia / India, and in Africa. The language that was prominently missing was German IIR. I cannot say for the 2025-2026 models since so much has happened.. but models are not equal.

[vintermann]

Does that include local distilled models? Because it didn't last time I checked for Norwegian.

[varjag]

Not really. For instance Facebook speech recognition models had Swedish support but no Norwegian.