FYI the ‘Le Chonk’ fat cat meme has been a thing in the localllama community, which I suppose Mistral is referencing. Its a nickname for giant models that only the insane would try to run locally.

And this is supposedly a big deal because Mistral was… not great, for a long time. They basically pioneered the MoE models that got so popular, then faded into irrelevance for a while.