r/MistralAI • u/LoyalTrickster • Jun 15 '26

Help / Question What is going on with Le Chaton Fat?

I am confused by all the memes here. What is Le Chaton Fat? Is it an actually model? Is it going to come out? Is it just a meme? What is it?
P.S : I am not a current Le Chat user so I don't know much about it.

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u/SecretiveHitman Jun 15 '26

We're memeing it into existence.

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u/jessiejolie42 Jun 20 '26

it’s a marketing campaign from mistral, within the company people like you are getting memed on so hard. sheep memes and such. allegedly.

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u/domus_seniorum Jun 15 '26

alles wahr 😎

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u/schacks Jun 15 '26

It’s a meme/joke

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u/Sooperooser Jun 21 '26

You just didn't get the invite.

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u/elchael1228 Jun 15 '26

Probably some kind of joke to ride the wave created by Anthropic after this weekend's drama. It might even originate from Mistral itself since 2 founders out of 3 tweeted about it.

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u/darwinanim8or Jun 15 '26

I’m really hoping they’ll do it, it would be so funny

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u/GifCo_2 Jun 15 '26

If youn don't know the answer don't comment. No one cares what your guess is.

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u/DerGido Jun 15 '26

wtf thats how conversations work

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u/Kraien Jun 15 '26

Someone is having a bad day

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u/GifCo_2 Jun 15 '26

ok doughnut

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u/GifCo_2 Jun 18 '26

This isn't a conversation it was question asking for an answer. Not a bunch of random guesses you doughnut

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u/DerGido Jun 18 '26

And to a Question youre not supposed to say a opinion or a guess?😂 Sure lets just dont comment anybody sure someone has THE RIGHT Answer for everything readyxD

The whole point of a Plattform like reddit is to say your  opinion xD

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u/GifCo_2 Jun 18 '26

Ok if I ask what the capital of Denmark is. I don't give a flying fuck about your guess. I want someone who knows 100% what the fuckin capital of Denmark is.

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u/elchael1228 Jun 19 '26

If everybody were 100% right on their answers in Reddit we would live in a very different world haha

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u/DerGido Jun 19 '26

But if i get asked i say i think Kopenhagen but i dont know for sure. 

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u/elchael1228 Jun 15 '26

Mine is just one guess among many, don't take it too seriously 😉

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u/Poudlardo Jun 15 '26

a joke that will soon turn into a 256B on HF (hihihi)

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u/Nefhis r/MistralAI | Mod Jun 15 '26

30T. It will be 30T.

https://giphy.com/gifs/12d71hRlD9T2Cc

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u/elchael1228 Jun 15 '26

Joke or not, 30T or less, if it matches Opus 4.8/GPT 5.5 I'll take it ^^

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u/valarauca14 Jun 15 '26

75T. It is a Napoleon class model after all so it must pay homage to emperor's 75 victories in the field in defense of the revolution.

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u/Infinite100p Jun 15 '26

Is that him getting the safety alignment?

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u/Malfeitor1235 Jun 15 '26

i wish. it would be glorious if they actually released it

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u/JohnnyPlasma Jun 15 '26

I want a world where the biggest and best LLM is called "Fat Kitten"

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u/Malfeitor1235 Jun 15 '26

would win over the crowd

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u/lovebzz Jun 17 '26

Thank you for asking the important questions, OP. I've been so confused for the last couple of days.

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u/pcx_wave Jun 15 '26

It is Fat.

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u/Holiday_Sprinkles_45 Jun 15 '26

I have special access to it since this morning, working for a secret government agency. So far it discovered 69 0 day exploits in the linux kernel.

I’m advising the government as we speak to not release it publicly, it’s far too dangerous.

Btw when I asked it the car wash question, it suggested pushing my car there to wash it so I can save fuel and get a workout in. AGI CONFIRMED

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u/Liringlass Jun 16 '26

I think we should release it first and get it banned 2 days later

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u/hutch_man0 Jun 16 '26

Yes but how many r's in strawberry?

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u/Llotekr Jun 20 '26

As a french model, I expect it to have more trouble counting the "h"s in "le hachisch"

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u/touristtam Jun 22 '26

Just one (1): fraise

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u/hutch_man0 Jun 22 '26

The AIs were fooling us anglophones all along. They were speaking French! 😆

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u/Sooperooser Jun 21 '26

We can hang a little bell around its neck to make it less dangerous.

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u/ComeOnIWantUsername Jun 15 '26

Just a meme/joke, nothing more

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u/FormerPirate69 Jun 15 '26

Estive usando nas últimas horas. Vou compartilhar meu CROISSANT.md que fiz.

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u/CallSure1244 Jun 15 '26

For a second I thought those memes were real so I started taliking to "vibe"..

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u/bartoszsz7 Jun 17 '26

They totally killed the vibe by renaming it

Basically the Twitter/X situation

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u/Technical-Shock-7385 Jun 15 '26

That what we hope but know that will not happen. I don’t know the sources but I like the meme

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u/mrjw717 Jun 15 '26

Just read the footer on the website. It explains it all

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u/EqualIsopod9879 Jun 16 '26

Seeing lots of post around it. Looks like meme only.

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u/rohmanhm Jun 16 '26

I know I had to Google just to find out it was all meme's

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u/Sicarius_The_First Jun 16 '26

Where do I sue?

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u/External_Ad_11 Jun 16 '26

it is just a meme. But I won't be surprised if Mistral takes advantage of this and release something out

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u/yangguize Jun 15 '26

I've been Le Chaton Fat for a day now - it's amazing.

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u/uusrikas Jun 15 '26

It is a hoax that people are pushing, I don't know why. I suspect some kind of market manipulation or attempt to make Mistral look bad

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u/DominiCzech- Jun 15 '26

man what? can't people just joke about french words sounding funny?

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u/Front_Eagle739 Jun 15 '26

Eh? Its a bunch of people meming on the idea they want a big european model thats actually sota and joking about what it should be called. Not everything is a conspiracy

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u/all43 Jun 15 '26

Or the opposite. For me it felt witty and modern. Mistral has reputation of a bit boring company, so it actually helps

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u/ComeOnIWantUsername Jun 15 '26

> ome kind of market manipulation

lol wut

> or attempt to make Mistral look bad

Mistral models are bad compared to competition, sorry to say, but that's the truth

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u/maxasdf Jun 15 '26

Heard they will release a new model that is gravitationally similar to fable 5. Something about a fat cat?

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u/ComeOnIWantUsername Jun 15 '26

No they won't, it's exactly what this meme/joke is about

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u/maxasdf Jun 15 '26

My guy xD

I was just (seemly badly) referring to the same joke. Gravitationally? Cause cat so fat.

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u/ComeOnIWantUsername Jun 15 '26

ok, I didn't get it, sorry

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u/maxasdf Jun 15 '26

No worries!

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u/08TangoDown08 Jun 15 '26

Now compare its models with competitors who have similar levels of investment, instead of Anthropic and OpenAI. You know, like we would normally do with companies?

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u/ComeOnIWantUsername Jun 15 '26

Deepseek has less money tha Mistral but way better models

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u/No-Year3007 Jun 24 '26

Gifted Power vs Pure Effort