Unverified · debunked
A leaked card for “Le Chaton Fat” - a supposed 30T+ parameter monster - tore through timelines for days before anyone stopped to check the source.
The fake spread because it was exactly what people wanted to be true. A French lab dropping a 30-trillion-parameter open model fit the mood of the summer perfectly, so the screenshots got reposted faster than they got fact-checked. By the time the “leak” was traced back to a joke, it had already booked itself a place in the year’s lore.
The hoax was a tell. You don’t fake a release nobody is waiting for. The appetite for a giant Mistral model was real, even if the kitten never was.