A fake benchmark chart went around claiming Mistral had quietly shipped a 30 trillion parameter model called Le Chaton Fat that beat everyone. It was never real, but enough of X wanted it to be. Arthur Mensch replied only to correct the French, le gros chaton, which read like confirmation. Days later Mistral put a fat cat in Vibe.
I was in those conversations, so I made the cat run. One button, every major AI lab to crush. It went further than anything else I've built. X, LinkedIn, a few tech sites, and Mistral's own people played it, mostly because it was riding their mascot.