Yesterday Mistral uploaded the private checkpoint of le chaton fat to @huggingface and it broke our S3 bill
Hugging Face CTO Julien Chaumond reports a private Mistral model upload triggered a 200-petabyte storage spike
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Hugging Face CTO Julien Chaumond posted about a single private Mistral checkpoint nicknamed 'le chaton fat' that appeared to drive an abrupt 200-petabyte jump in total Hub storage, with the attached chart showing the line leaping from roughly 600 to 800 petabytes around June 13.
Platform costs tied to one upload stay unverified
No independent confirmation exists for actual S3 billing changes or storage telemetry, leaving the scale of any real infrastructure effect open.
Viral nickname turns out to be meme, not model
The referenced checkpoint does not correspond to any documented Mistral release and instead traces to satirical posts that spread across X without a factual basis.
Positive users found Mistral's Hugging Face upload amusing and looked forward to future models, while negative users accused the platform of bullying Europeans and Mistral of dishonest promotion.
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Completely irresponsible of X to label these Le Chaton Fat charts as AI generated.
Yesterday Mistral uploaded the private checkpoint of le chaton fat to @huggingface and it broke our S3 bill

@julien_c @_akhaliq @huggingface Let Chaton Fat does not care about your bill, it only demands more baguette.

@julien_c @huggingface are you low-key fat-shaming Le Chaton Fat? 🐱

@julien_c @huggingface how big was the checkpoint that it actually moved the bill

@julien_c @huggingface @juniorro16 kkk

@julien_c @huggingface yes he real thicc

@julien_c @huggingface run smoothly on magnetic hard disk with pentium 3 500

@julien_c @huggingface I'm patiently waiting for Le Chaton Fat to create AI2 already

@julien_c @_akhaliq @huggingface Will they release the training code & recipe too?

@julien_c @huggingface Macronmaxxing !

@julien_c @huggingface huggingface's infrastructure team had a rough morning because of this

@julien_c @huggingface funny :) also, huge if true @cleoabram

@julien_c @huggingface I know it's about the meme But why not use r2? You're bw heavy and storage heavy

@julien_c @huggingface bro dont do this to me 😅

@naty__1986 @huggingface re. bw we're actually building our own cdn

@julien_c @huggingface S3 bill explose quand on télécharge 14GB de poids à 0.09$/Go — mais c’est le débit réseau qui tue, pas le stockage.

@julien_c @huggingface Oh that cats really reall fat

@julien_c @huggingface The entire X is bullying Europeans.

@julien_c @huggingface le bullying

@code_star theyre rigging perception to try and promote their new Fat Fucking Chud model, super dishonest.