What Is Le Chaton Fat? The Fake Mistral AI Model Explained
Le Chaton Fat is a fake AI model, and that is the whole point. For about a week in June 2026, AI Twitter and Reddit were flooded with launch graphics, leaked benchmarks, and breathless threads about a new Mistral frontier model called Le Chaton Fat. The name mashes French and English together for “the fat kitten.” It had 30 trillion parameters, scored higher than every rival on charts that looked just real enough, and ran at a claimed 1,000 meows per second. None of it exists. There are no weights, no API, and no product page. This article explains what Le Chaton Fat actually is, where the joke came from, […]
