France Televisions, the French public broadcasting group behind France 2 and France Info, named the AI suppliers used in prototypes and demonstrations at the French Open. Its RG Lab research unit disclosed on Thursday 11 June the prototypes and demonstrations it presented at Roland-Garros: Decart's Lucy 2.0 model transforming live footage in under half a second; an AI virtual-mirror prototype, with interviewee anonymisation proposed as a possible use; 4D Gaussian Splatting volumetric video from Gracia AI; Topaz Labs' Starlight Precise 2.5 for remastering; and agentic AI building an Android extended-reality (XR) app, the term for headset and overlay viewing1.
Decart and Gracia AI barely register in the trade press, yet France Televisions has publicly named them as suppliers to its research demonstrations. For a reader selling into broadcasters, that disclosure is the signal: a major European public broadcaster used third-party generative models in tournament demonstrations and said which ones. Harmonic's AI EyeQ encoding deployment at the Swiss public broadcaster Canal Alpha was the prior named-vendor move in this market; France Televisions extends the pattern from the delivery pipe to the creative layer.
France Televisions also made a governance choice with a deadline behind it. The EU AI Act's Article 50 transparency rules arrive on 2 August, and a disclosed supplier relationship is far easier to defend to a regulator than an unnamed generative layer. The virtual-mirror prototype also suggested a possible privacy use: anonymising interviewees. This is the disclosed version of what Fox One is doing quietly with its unnamed generative layer, and the inverse of Netflix renting Runway for The Eternaut without crediting the tool until a leak forced it.
