diff --git a/candle-core/examples/tensor-tools.rs b/candle-core/examples/tensor-tools.rs
index 2bc1fa2e..c3459004 100644
--- a/candle-core/examples/tensor-tools.rs
+++ b/candle-core/examples/tensor-tools.rs
@@ -218,12 +218,65 @@ fn run_ls(file: &std::path::PathBuf, format: Option<Format>, verbose: bool) -> R
     Ok(())
 }
 
+fn run_quantize_safetensors(
+    in_file: std::path::PathBuf,
+    out_file: std::path::PathBuf,
+    q: Quantization,
+) -> Result<()> {
+    let mut out_file = std::fs::File::create(out_file)?;
+    let tensors = candle_core::safetensors::load(in_file, &Device::Cpu)?;
+    println!("tensors: {}", tensors.len());
+
+    let quantize_fn = match q {
+        Quantization::Q4_0 => QTensor::quantize::<k_quants::BlockQ4_0>,
+        Quantization::Q4_1 => QTensor::quantize::<k_quants::BlockQ4_1>,
+        Quantization::Q5_0 => QTensor::quantize::<k_quants::BlockQ5_0>,
+        Quantization::Q5_1 => QTensor::quantize::<k_quants::BlockQ5_1>,
+        Quantization::Q8_0 => QTensor::quantize::<k_quants::BlockQ8_0>,
+        Quantization::Q8_1 => QTensor::quantize::<k_quants::BlockQ8_1>,
+        Quantization::Q2k => QTensor::quantize::<k_quants::BlockQ2K>,
+        Quantization::Q3k => QTensor::quantize::<k_quants::BlockQ3K>,
+        Quantization::Q4k => QTensor::quantize::<k_quants::BlockQ4K>,
+        Quantization::Q5k => QTensor::quantize::<k_quants::BlockQ5K>,
+        Quantization::Q6k => QTensor::quantize::<k_quants::BlockQ6K>,
+        Quantization::Q8k => QTensor::quantize::<k_quants::BlockQ8K>,
+        Quantization::F16 => QTensor::quantize::<half::f16>,
+        Quantization::F32 => QTensor::quantize::<f32>,
+    };
+
+    let qtensors = tensors
+        .into_par_iter()
+        .map(|(name, tensor)| {
+            println!("  quantizing {name} {tensor:?}");
+            let should_quantize = tensor.rank() == 2 && tensor.dim(0)? % 256 == 0;
+            let tensor = if should_quantize {
+                quantize_fn(&tensor)?
+            } else {
+                QTensor::quantize::<f32>(&tensor)?
+            };
+            Ok((name, tensor))
+        })
+        .collect::<Result<Vec<_>>>()?;
+    let qtensors = qtensors
+        .iter()
+        .map(|(k, v)| (k.as_str(), v))
+        .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+    gguf_file::write(&mut out_file, &[], &qtensors)?;
+    Ok(())
+}
+
 fn run_quantize(
     in_file: std::path::PathBuf,
     out_file: std::path::PathBuf,
     q: Quantization,
     qmode: QuantizationMode,
 ) -> Result<()> {
+    if let Some(extension) = in_file.extension() {
+        if extension == "safetensors" {
+            return run_quantize_safetensors(in_file, out_file, q);
+        }
+    }
+
     // Open the out file early so as to fail directly on missing directories etc.
     let mut out_file = std::fs::File::create(out_file)?;
     let mut in_ = std::fs::File::open(&in_file)?;
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/quantized-t5/README.md b/candle-examples/examples/quantized-t5/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1f6b99eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/quantized-t5/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# candle-quantized-t5
+
+This example uses a quantized version of the t5 model.
+
+```bash
+$ cargo run --example quantized-t5 --release -- --prompt "translate to German: A beautiful candle."
+...
+ Eine schöne Kerze.
+```
+
+The weight file is automatically retrieved from the hub. It is also possible to
+generate quantized weight files from the original safetensors file by using the
+`tensor-tools` command line utility via:
+
+```bash
+cargo run --example tensor-tools --release -- quantize --quantization q6k PATH/TO/T5/model.safetensors /tmp/model.gguf
+```
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/quantized-t5/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/quantized-t5/main.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..86d3762e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/quantized-t5/main.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+#[cfg(feature = "mkl")]
+extern crate intel_mkl_src;
+
+#[cfg(feature = "accelerate")]
+extern crate accelerate_src;
+use std::io::Write;
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+
+use candle_transformers::models::quantized_t5 as t5;
+
+use anyhow::{Error as E, Result};
+use candle::{Device, Tensor};
+use candle_transformers::generation::LogitsProcessor;
+use clap::Parser;
+use hf_hub::{api::sync::Api, Repo, RepoType};
+use tokenizers::Tokenizer;
+
+#[derive(Parser, Debug, Clone)]
+#[command(author, version, about, long_about = None)]
+struct Args {
+    /// Enable tracing (generates a trace-timestamp.json file).
+    #[arg(long)]
+    tracing: bool,
+
+    /// The model repository to use on the HuggingFace hub.
+    #[arg(long)]
+    model_id: Option<String>,
+
+    #[arg(long)]
+    revision: Option<String>,
+
+    #[arg(long)]
+    weight_file: Option<String>,
+
+    // Enable/disable decoding.
+    #[arg(long, default_value = "false")]
+    disable_cache: bool,
+
+    /// Use this prompt, otherwise compute sentence similarities.
+    #[arg(long)]
+    prompt: String,
+
+    /// The temperature used to generate samples.
+    #[arg(long, default_value_t = 0.8)]
+    temperature: f64,
+
+    /// Nucleus sampling probability cutoff.
+    #[arg(long)]
+    top_p: Option<f64>,
+
+    /// Penalty to be applied for repeating tokens, 1. means no penalty.
+    #[arg(long, default_value_t = 1.1)]
+    repeat_penalty: f32,
+
+    /// The context size to consider for the repeat penalty.
+    #[arg(long, default_value_t = 64)]
+    repeat_last_n: usize,
+}
+
+struct T5ModelBuilder {
+    device: Device,
+    config: t5::Config,
+    weights_filename: PathBuf,
+}
+
+impl T5ModelBuilder {
+    pub fn load(args: &Args) -> Result<(Self, Tokenizer)> {
+        let device = Device::Cpu;
+        let default_model = "lmz/candle-quantized-t5".to_string();
+        let (model_id, revision) = match (args.model_id.to_owned(), args.revision.to_owned()) {
+            (Some(model_id), Some(revision)) => (model_id, revision),
+            (Some(model_id), None) => (model_id, "main".to_string()),
+            (None, Some(revision)) => (default_model, revision),
+            (None, None) => (default_model, "main".to_string()),
+        };
+
+        let repo = Repo::with_revision(model_id, RepoType::Model, revision);
+        let api = Api::new()?;
+        let api = api.repo(repo);
+        let config_filename = api.get("config.json")?;
+        let tokenizer_filename = api.get("tokenizer.json")?;
+        let weights_filename = match &args.weight_file {
+            Some(filename) => std::path::PathBuf::from(filename),
+            None => api.get("model.gguf")?,
+        };
+        let config = std::fs::read_to_string(config_filename)?;
+        let mut config: t5::Config = serde_json::from_str(&config)?;
+        config.use_cache = !args.disable_cache;
+        let tokenizer = Tokenizer::from_file(tokenizer_filename).map_err(E::msg)?;
+        Ok((
+            Self {
+                device,
+                config,
+                weights_filename,
+            },
+            tokenizer,
+        ))
+    }
+
+    pub fn build_model(&self) -> Result<t5::T5ForConditionalGeneration> {
+        let vb = t5::VarBuilder::from_gguf(&self.weights_filename)?;
+        Ok(t5::T5ForConditionalGeneration::load(vb, &self.config)?)
+    }
+}
+
+fn main() -> Result<()> {
+    use tracing_chrome::ChromeLayerBuilder;
+    use tracing_subscriber::prelude::*;
+
+    let args = Args::parse();
+
+    let _guard = if args.tracing {
+        println!("tracing...");
+        let (chrome_layer, guard) = ChromeLayerBuilder::new().build();
+        tracing_subscriber::registry().with(chrome_layer).init();
+        Some(guard)
+    } else {
+        None
+    };
+
+    let (builder, mut tokenizer) = T5ModelBuilder::load(&args)?;
+    let device = &builder.device;
+    let tokenizer = tokenizer
+        .with_padding(None)
+        .with_truncation(None)
+        .map_err(E::msg)?;
+    let tokens = tokenizer
+        .encode(args.prompt, true)
+        .map_err(E::msg)?
+        .get_ids()
+        .to_vec();
+    let input_token_ids = Tensor::new(&tokens[..], device)?.unsqueeze(0)?;
+    let mut model = builder.build_model()?;
+    let mut output_token_ids = [builder.config.pad_token_id as u32].to_vec();
+    let temperature = if args.temperature <= 0. {
+        None
+    } else {
+        Some(args.temperature)
+    };
+    let mut logits_processor = LogitsProcessor::new(299792458, temperature, args.top_p);
+    let encoder_output = model.encode(&input_token_ids)?;
+    let start = std::time::Instant::now();
+
+    for index in 0.. {
+        if output_token_ids.len() > 512 {
+            break;
+        }
+        let decoder_token_ids = if index == 0 || !builder.config.use_cache {
+            Tensor::new(output_token_ids.as_slice(), device)?.unsqueeze(0)?
+        } else {
+            let last_token = *output_token_ids.last().unwrap();
+            Tensor::new(&[last_token], device)?.unsqueeze(0)?
+        };
+        let logits = model
+            .decode(&decoder_token_ids, &encoder_output)?
+            .squeeze(0)?;
+        let logits = if args.repeat_penalty == 1. {
+            logits
+        } else {
+            let start_at = output_token_ids.len().saturating_sub(args.repeat_last_n);
+            candle_transformers::utils::apply_repeat_penalty(
+                &logits,
+                args.repeat_penalty,
+                &output_token_ids[start_at..],
+            )?
+        };
+
+        let next_token_id = logits_processor.sample(&logits)?;
+        if next_token_id as usize == builder.config.eos_token_id {
+            break;
+        }
+        output_token_ids.push(next_token_id);
+        if let Some(text) = tokenizer.id_to_token(next_token_id) {
+            let text = text.replace('▁', " ").replace("<0x0A>", "\n");
+            print!("{text}");
+            std::io::stdout().flush()?;
+        }
+    }
+    let dt = start.elapsed();
+    println!(
+        "\n{} tokens generated ({:.2} token/s)\n",
+        output_token_ids.len(),
+        output_token_ids.len() as f64 / dt.as_secs_f64(),
+    );
+    Ok(())
+}
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/quantized_t5.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/quantized_t5.rs
index c14500ba..a10c3b80 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/quantized_t5.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/quantized_t5.rs
@@ -15,6 +15,21 @@ pub struct VarBuilder {
 }
 
 impl VarBuilder {
+    pub fn from_gguf<P: AsRef<std::path::Path>>(p: P) -> Result<Self> {
+        let mut file = std::fs::File::open(p)?;
+        let content = candle::quantized::gguf_file::Content::read(&mut file)?;
+        let mut data = std::collections::HashMap::new();
+        for tensor_name in content.tensor_infos.keys() {
+            let tensor = content.tensor(&mut file, tensor_name)?;
+            data.insert(tensor_name.to_string(), Arc::new(tensor));
+        }
+        Ok(Self {
+            data: Arc::new(data),
+            path: Vec::new(),
+            device: Device::Cpu,
+        })
+    }
+
     fn pp<S: ToString>(&self, s: S) -> Self {
         let mut path = self.path.clone();
         path.push(s.to_string());
@@ -87,7 +102,7 @@ struct QMatMul {
 
 impl QMatMul {
     fn new(out_dim: usize, in_dim: usize, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<Self> {
-        let ws = vb.get((out_dim, in_dim), "weight")?;
+        let ws = vb.get((in_dim, out_dim), "weight")?;
         let inner = candle::quantized::QMatMul::from_arc(ws);
         let span = tracing::span!(tracing::Level::TRACE, "qmatmul");
         Ok(Self { inner, span })