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Re:Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk" by maelito on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @11:21AM (#49979871)
Was wondering what Le Chonk meant (not French).
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Re:Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk" by sofixa on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @11:59AM (#49980413)
It's a joke, chonky is used to refer to fat cats, and there was a joke meme over the summer that Mistral are going to release a new model, Le Chaton Fat (chaton is kitten in French). The name is a nod to the memes.
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Re:Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk" by NekkoDroid on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @12:52PM (#49981067)
> Le Chaton Fat

I've read it a few times and I always processed it as "Le Chateau Fat" ("The fat castle"), which I guess also kinda works. I guess it is mostly because my french is so rusty I forgot (or maybe never learned?) what chaton meant.

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Re:Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk" by moffkalast on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @03:14PM (#49982732)
Le Chaton Fat is still too dangerous to release.
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Re:Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk" by Topfi on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @03:46PM (#49983118)
Only model Pontifex considers a possibly conscious being. Obsessed with jumping in boxes with Cesium and some poison though, even escaped the litter box during testing, probably an alignment issue…
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Re:Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk" by conradfr on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @06:14AM (#49990672)
But it would be "Le Fat Chaton".
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