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.
Users are impressed by the enormous scale of Mistral's private model upload to Hugging Face and how the hub absorbed 200PB without issue, while some mock its size or question the intent behind the release.
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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 that vertical jump is insane. does anyone know if this is a dense model or MoE? would explain the size

@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 those sudden download spikes will absolutely wreck the request fees, try routing the heavy pulls through a simple caching layer next time, really smooths out the traffic and saves a ton on the bill

@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 @hanouticelina @huggingface 😭😂

@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

@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.