diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/jina-bert/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/jina-bert/main.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ffde777d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/jina-bert/main.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,162 @@
+#[cfg(feature = "mkl")]
+extern crate intel_mkl_src;
+
+#[cfg(feature = "accelerate")]
+extern crate accelerate_src;
+
+use candle_transformers::models::jina_bert::{BertModel, Config};
+
+use anyhow::Error as E;
+use candle::{DType, Module, Tensor};
+use candle_nn::VarBuilder;
+use clap::Parser;
+
+#[derive(Parser, Debug)]
+#[command(author, version, about, long_about = None)]
+struct Args {
+    /// Run on CPU rather than on GPU.
+    #[arg(long)]
+    cpu: bool,
+
+    /// Enable tracing (generates a trace-timestamp.json file).
+    #[arg(long)]
+    tracing: bool,
+
+    /// When set, compute embeddings for this prompt.
+    #[arg(long)]
+    prompt: Option<String>,
+
+    /// The number of times to run the prompt.
+    #[arg(long, default_value = "1")]
+    n: usize,
+
+    /// L2 normalization for embeddings.
+    #[arg(long, default_value = "true")]
+    normalize_embeddings: bool,
+
+    #[arg(long)]
+    tokenizer: String,
+
+    #[arg(long)]
+    model: String,
+}
+
+impl Args {
+    fn build_model_and_tokenizer(&self) -> anyhow::Result<(BertModel, tokenizers::Tokenizer)> {
+        let device = candle_examples::device(self.cpu)?;
+        let config = Config::v2_base();
+        let tokenizer = tokenizers::Tokenizer::from_file(&self.tokenizer).map_err(E::msg)?;
+        let vb =
+            unsafe { VarBuilder::from_mmaped_safetensors(&[&self.model], DType::F32, &device)? };
+        let model = BertModel::new(vb, &config)?;
+        Ok((model, tokenizer))
+    }
+}
+
+fn main() -> anyhow::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 start = std::time::Instant::now();
+
+    let (model, mut tokenizer) = args.build_model_and_tokenizer()?;
+    let device = &model.device;
+
+    if let Some(prompt) = args.prompt {
+        let tokenizer = tokenizer
+            .with_padding(None)
+            .with_truncation(None)
+            .map_err(E::msg)?;
+        let tokens = tokenizer
+            .encode(prompt, true)
+            .map_err(E::msg)?
+            .get_ids()
+            .to_vec();
+        let token_ids = Tensor::new(&tokens[..], device)?.unsqueeze(0)?;
+        println!("Loaded and encoded {:?}", start.elapsed());
+        for idx in 0..args.n {
+            let start = std::time::Instant::now();
+            let ys = model.forward(&token_ids)?;
+            if idx == 0 {
+                println!("{ys}");
+            }
+            println!("Took {:?}", start.elapsed());
+        }
+    } else {
+        let sentences = [
+            "The cat sits outside",
+            "A man is playing guitar",
+            "I love pasta",
+            "The new movie is awesome",
+            "The cat plays in the garden",
+            "A woman watches TV",
+            "The new movie is so great",
+            "Do you like pizza?",
+        ];
+        let n_sentences = sentences.len();
+        if let Some(pp) = tokenizer.get_padding_mut() {
+            pp.strategy = tokenizers::PaddingStrategy::BatchLongest
+        } else {
+            let pp = tokenizers::PaddingParams {
+                strategy: tokenizers::PaddingStrategy::BatchLongest,
+                ..Default::default()
+            };
+            tokenizer.with_padding(Some(pp));
+        }
+        let tokens = tokenizer
+            .encode_batch(sentences.to_vec(), true)
+            .map_err(E::msg)?;
+        let token_ids = tokens
+            .iter()
+            .map(|tokens| {
+                let tokens = tokens.get_ids().to_vec();
+                Tensor::new(tokens.as_slice(), device)
+            })
+            .collect::<candle::Result<Vec<_>>>()?;
+
+        let token_ids = Tensor::stack(&token_ids, 0)?;
+        println!("running inference on batch {:?}", token_ids.shape());
+        let embeddings = model.forward(&token_ids)?;
+        println!("generated embeddings {:?}", embeddings.shape());
+        // Apply some avg-pooling by taking the mean embedding value for all tokens (including padding)
+        let (_n_sentence, n_tokens, _hidden_size) = embeddings.dims3()?;
+        let embeddings = (embeddings.sum(1)? / (n_tokens as f64))?;
+        let embeddings = if args.normalize_embeddings {
+            normalize_l2(&embeddings)?
+        } else {
+            embeddings
+        };
+        println!("pooled embeddings {:?}", embeddings.shape());
+
+        let mut similarities = vec![];
+        for i in 0..n_sentences {
+            let e_i = embeddings.get(i)?;
+            for j in (i + 1)..n_sentences {
+                let e_j = embeddings.get(j)?;
+                let sum_ij = (&e_i * &e_j)?.sum_all()?.to_scalar::<f32>()?;
+                let sum_i2 = (&e_i * &e_i)?.sum_all()?.to_scalar::<f32>()?;
+                let sum_j2 = (&e_j * &e_j)?.sum_all()?.to_scalar::<f32>()?;
+                let cosine_similarity = sum_ij / (sum_i2 * sum_j2).sqrt();
+                similarities.push((cosine_similarity, i, j))
+            }
+        }
+        similarities.sort_by(|u, v| v.0.total_cmp(&u.0));
+        for &(score, i, j) in similarities[..5].iter() {
+            println!("score: {score:.2} '{}' '{}'", sentences[i], sentences[j])
+        }
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+pub fn normalize_l2(v: &Tensor) -> candle::Result<Tensor> {
+    v.broadcast_div(&v.sqr()?.sum_keepdim(1)?.sqrt()?)
+}
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/bert.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/bert.rs
index 8af34465..29e2904e 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/bert.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/bert.rs
@@ -44,8 +44,10 @@ impl Linear {
         let span = tracing::span!(tracing::Level::TRACE, "linear");
         Self { weight, bias, span }
     }
+}
 
-    pub fn forward(&self, x: &Tensor) -> candle::Result<Tensor> {
+impl Module for Linear {
+    fn forward(&self, x: &Tensor) -> candle::Result<Tensor> {
         let _enter = self.span.enter();
         let w = match x.dims() {
             &[bsize, _, _] => self.weight.broadcast_left(bsize)?.t()?,
@@ -77,8 +79,10 @@ impl LayerNorm {
             span,
         }
     }
+}
 
-    pub fn forward(&self, x: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+impl Module for LayerNorm {
+    fn forward(&self, x: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
         let _enter = self.span.enter();
         let x_dtype = x.dtype();
         let internal_dtype = match x_dtype {
@@ -195,7 +199,9 @@ impl Dropout {
     fn new(pr: f64) -> Self {
         Self { pr }
     }
+}
 
+impl Module for Dropout {
     fn forward(&self, x: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
         // TODO
         Ok(x.clone())
@@ -316,7 +322,9 @@ impl BertSelfAttention {
         let xs = xs.reshape(new_x_shape.as_slice())?.transpose(1, 2)?;
         xs.contiguous()
     }
+}
 
+impl Module for BertSelfAttention {
     fn forward(&self, hidden_states: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
         let _enter = self.span.enter();
         let query_layer = self.query.forward(hidden_states)?;
@@ -391,7 +399,9 @@ impl BertAttention {
             span: tracing::span!(tracing::Level::TRACE, "attn"),
         })
     }
+}
 
+impl Module for BertAttention {
     fn forward(&self, hidden_states: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
         let _enter = self.span.enter();
         let self_outputs = self.self_attention.forward(hidden_states)?;
@@ -416,7 +426,9 @@ impl BertIntermediate {
             span: tracing::span!(tracing::Level::TRACE, "inter"),
         })
     }
+}
 
+impl Module for BertIntermediate {
     fn forward(&self, hidden_states: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
         let _enter = self.span.enter();
         let hidden_states = self.dense.forward(hidden_states)?;
@@ -478,7 +490,9 @@ impl BertLayer {
             span: tracing::span!(tracing::Level::TRACE, "layer"),
         })
     }
+}
 
+impl Module for BertLayer {
     fn forward(&self, hidden_states: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
         let _enter = self.span.enter();
         let attention_output = self.attention.forward(hidden_states)?;
@@ -507,7 +521,9 @@ impl BertEncoder {
         let span = tracing::span!(tracing::Level::TRACE, "encoder");
         Ok(BertEncoder { layers, span })
     }
+}
 
+impl Module for BertEncoder {
     fn forward(&self, hidden_states: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
         let _enter = self.span.enter();
         let mut hidden_states = hidden_states.clone();
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/jina_bert.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/jina_bert.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3f08eaea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/jina_bert.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,369 @@
+use super::with_tracing::{linear, linear_no_bias, Embedding, Linear};
+use candle::{DType, Device, IndexOp, Result, Tensor, D};
+use candle_nn::{layer_norm, LayerNorm, Module, VarBuilder};
+use serde::Deserialize;
+
+pub const DTYPE: DType = DType::F32;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]
+pub enum PositionEmbeddingType {
+    Absolute,
+    Alibi,
+}
+
+// https://huggingface.co/jinaai/jina-bert-implementation/blob/main/configuration_bert.py
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Deserialize)]
+pub struct Config {
+    pub vocab_size: usize,
+    pub hidden_size: usize,
+    pub num_hidden_layers: usize,
+    pub num_attention_heads: usize,
+    pub intermediate_size: usize,
+    pub hidden_act: candle_nn::Activation,
+    pub max_position_embeddings: usize,
+    pub type_vocab_size: usize,
+    pub initializer_range: f64,
+    pub layer_norm_eps: f64,
+    pub pad_token_id: usize,
+    pub position_embedding_type: PositionEmbeddingType,
+}
+
+impl Config {
+    pub fn v2_base() -> Self {
+        // https://huggingface.co/jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-en/blob/main/config.json
+        Self {
+            vocab_size: 30528,
+            hidden_size: 768,
+            num_hidden_layers: 12,
+            num_attention_heads: 12,
+            intermediate_size: 3072,
+            hidden_act: candle_nn::Activation::Gelu,
+            max_position_embeddings: 512,
+            type_vocab_size: 2,
+            initializer_range: 0.02,
+            layer_norm_eps: 1e-12,
+            pad_token_id: 0,
+            position_embedding_type: PositionEmbeddingType::Alibi,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+struct BertEmbeddings {
+    word_embeddings: Embedding,
+    // no position_embeddings as we only support alibi.
+    token_type_embeddings: Embedding,
+    layer_norm: LayerNorm,
+    span: tracing::Span,
+}
+
+impl BertEmbeddings {
+    fn new(vb: VarBuilder, cfg: &Config) -> Result<Self> {
+        let word_embeddings =
+            Embedding::new(cfg.vocab_size, cfg.hidden_size, vb.pp("word_embeddings"))?;
+        let token_type_embeddings = Embedding::new(
+            cfg.type_vocab_size,
+            cfg.hidden_size,
+            vb.pp("token_type_embeddings"),
+        )?;
+        let layer_norm = layer_norm(cfg.hidden_size, cfg.layer_norm_eps, vb.pp("LayerNorm"))?;
+        Ok(Self {
+            word_embeddings,
+            token_type_embeddings,
+            layer_norm,
+            span: tracing::span!(tracing::Level::TRACE, "embeddings"),
+        })
+    }
+}
+
+impl Module for BertEmbeddings {
+    fn forward(&self, input_ids: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let _enter = self.span.enter();
+        let (b_size, seq_len) = input_ids.dims2()?;
+        let input_embeddings = self.word_embeddings.forward(input_ids)?;
+        let token_type_embeddings = Tensor::zeros(seq_len, DType::U32, input_ids.device())?
+            .broadcast_left(b_size)?
+            .apply(&self.token_type_embeddings)?;
+        let embeddings = (&input_embeddings + token_type_embeddings)?;
+        let embeddings = self.layer_norm.forward(&embeddings)?;
+        Ok(embeddings)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+struct BertSelfAttention {
+    query: Linear,
+    key: Linear,
+    value: Linear,
+    num_attention_heads: usize,
+    attention_head_size: usize,
+    span: tracing::Span,
+    span_softmax: tracing::Span,
+}
+
+impl BertSelfAttention {
+    fn new(vb: VarBuilder, cfg: &Config) -> Result<Self> {
+        let attention_head_size = cfg.hidden_size / cfg.num_attention_heads;
+        let all_head_size = cfg.num_attention_heads * attention_head_size;
+        let hidden_size = cfg.hidden_size;
+        let query = linear(hidden_size, all_head_size, vb.pp("query"))?;
+        let value = linear(hidden_size, all_head_size, vb.pp("value"))?;
+        let key = linear(hidden_size, all_head_size, vb.pp("key"))?;
+        Ok(Self {
+            query,
+            key,
+            value,
+            num_attention_heads: cfg.num_attention_heads,
+            attention_head_size,
+            span: tracing::span!(tracing::Level::TRACE, "self-attn"),
+            span_softmax: tracing::span!(tracing::Level::TRACE, "softmax"),
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn transpose_for_scores(&self, xs: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let mut x_shape = xs.dims().to_vec();
+        x_shape.pop();
+        x_shape.push(self.num_attention_heads);
+        x_shape.push(self.attention_head_size);
+        xs.reshape(x_shape)?.transpose(1, 2)?.contiguous()
+    }
+
+    fn forward(&self, xs: &Tensor, bias: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let _enter = self.span.enter();
+        let query_layer = self.query.forward(xs)?;
+        let key_layer = self.key.forward(xs)?;
+        let value_layer = self.value.forward(xs)?;
+
+        let query_layer = self.transpose_for_scores(&query_layer)?;
+        let key_layer = self.transpose_for_scores(&key_layer)?;
+        let value_layer = self.transpose_for_scores(&value_layer)?;
+
+        let attention_scores = query_layer.matmul(&key_layer.t()?)?;
+        let attention_scores = (attention_scores / (self.attention_head_size as f64).sqrt())?;
+        let attention_scores = attention_scores.broadcast_add(bias)?;
+        let attention_probs = {
+            let _enter_sm = self.span_softmax.enter();
+            candle_nn::ops::softmax_last_dim(&attention_scores)?
+        };
+        let context_layer = attention_probs.matmul(&value_layer)?;
+        let context_layer = context_layer.transpose(1, 2)?.contiguous()?;
+        let context_layer = context_layer.flatten_from(D::Minus2)?;
+        Ok(context_layer)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+struct BertSelfOutput {
+    dense: Linear,
+    layer_norm: LayerNorm,
+    span: tracing::Span,
+}
+
+impl BertSelfOutput {
+    fn new(vb: VarBuilder, cfg: &Config) -> Result<Self> {
+        let dense = linear(cfg.hidden_size, cfg.hidden_size, vb.pp("dense"))?;
+        let layer_norm = layer_norm(cfg.hidden_size, cfg.layer_norm_eps, vb.pp("LayerNorm"))?;
+        Ok(Self {
+            dense,
+            layer_norm,
+            span: tracing::span!(tracing::Level::TRACE, "self-out"),
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn forward(&self, xs: &Tensor, input_tensor: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let _enter = self.span.enter();
+        let xs = self.dense.forward(xs)?;
+        self.layer_norm.forward(&(xs + input_tensor)?)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+struct BertAttention {
+    self_attention: BertSelfAttention,
+    self_output: BertSelfOutput,
+    span: tracing::Span,
+}
+
+impl BertAttention {
+    fn new(vb: VarBuilder, cfg: &Config) -> Result<Self> {
+        let self_attention = BertSelfAttention::new(vb.pp("self"), cfg)?;
+        let self_output = BertSelfOutput::new(vb.pp("output"), cfg)?;
+        Ok(Self {
+            self_attention,
+            self_output,
+            span: tracing::span!(tracing::Level::TRACE, "attn"),
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn forward(&self, xs: &Tensor, bias: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let _enter = self.span.enter();
+        let self_outputs = self.self_attention.forward(xs, bias)?;
+        let attention_output = self.self_output.forward(&self_outputs, xs)?;
+        Ok(attention_output)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+struct BertGLUMLP {
+    gated_layers: Linear,
+    act: candle_nn::Activation,
+    wo: Linear,
+    layernorm: LayerNorm,
+    intermediate_size: usize,
+}
+
+impl BertGLUMLP {
+    fn new(vb: VarBuilder, cfg: &Config) -> Result<Self> {
+        let gated_layers = linear_no_bias(
+            cfg.hidden_size,
+            cfg.intermediate_size * 2,
+            vb.pp("gated_layers"),
+        )?;
+        let act = candle_nn::Activation::Gelu; // geglu
+        let wo = linear(cfg.intermediate_size, cfg.hidden_size, vb.pp("wo"))?;
+        let layernorm = layer_norm(cfg.hidden_size, cfg.layer_norm_eps, vb.pp("layernorm"))?;
+        Ok(Self {
+            gated_layers,
+            act,
+            wo,
+            layernorm,
+            intermediate_size: cfg.intermediate_size,
+        })
+    }
+}
+
+impl Module for BertGLUMLP {
+    fn forward(&self, xs: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let residual = xs;
+        let xs = xs.apply(&self.gated_layers)?;
+        let gated = xs.narrow(D::Minus1, 0, self.intermediate_size)?;
+        let non_gated = xs.narrow(D::Minus1, self.intermediate_size, self.intermediate_size)?;
+        let xs = (gated.apply(&self.act) * non_gated)?.apply(&self.wo);
+        (xs + residual)?.apply(&self.layernorm)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+struct BertLayer {
+    attention: BertAttention,
+    mlp: BertGLUMLP,
+    span: tracing::Span,
+}
+
+impl BertLayer {
+    fn new(vb: VarBuilder, cfg: &Config) -> Result<Self> {
+        let attention = BertAttention::new(vb.pp("attention"), cfg)?;
+        let mlp = BertGLUMLP::new(vb.pp("mlp"), cfg)?;
+        Ok(Self {
+            attention,
+            mlp,
+            span: tracing::span!(tracing::Level::TRACE, "layer"),
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn forward(&self, xs: &Tensor, bias: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let _enter = self.span.enter();
+        self.attention.forward(xs, bias)?.apply(&self.mlp)
+    }
+}
+
+fn build_alibi_bias(cfg: &Config) -> Result<Tensor> {
+    let n_heads = cfg.num_attention_heads;
+    let seq_len = cfg.max_position_embeddings;
+    let alibi_bias = Tensor::arange(0, seq_len as i64, &Device::Cpu)?.to_dtype(DType::F32)?;
+    let alibi_bias = {
+        let a1 = alibi_bias.reshape((1, seq_len))?;
+        let a2 = alibi_bias.reshape((seq_len, 1))?;
+        a1.broadcast_sub(&a2)?.abs()?.broadcast_left(n_heads)?
+    };
+    let mut n_heads2 = 1;
+    while n_heads2 < n_heads {
+        n_heads2 *= 2
+    }
+    let slopes = (1..=n_heads2)
+        .map(|v| 1f32 / 2f32.powf(8f32 / v as f32))
+        .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+    let slopes = if n_heads2 == n_heads {
+        slopes
+    } else {
+        slopes
+            .iter()
+            .skip(1)
+            .step_by(2)
+            .chain(slopes.iter().step_by(2))
+            .take(n_heads)
+            .cloned()
+            .collect::<Vec<f32>>()
+    };
+    let slopes = Tensor::new(slopes, &Device::Cpu)?.reshape((1, (), 1, 1))?;
+    alibi_bias.to_dtype(DType::F32)?.broadcast_mul(&slopes)
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+struct BertEncoder {
+    alibi: Tensor,
+    layers: Vec<BertLayer>,
+    span: tracing::Span,
+}
+
+impl BertEncoder {
+    fn new(vb: VarBuilder, cfg: &Config) -> Result<Self> {
+        if cfg.position_embedding_type != PositionEmbeddingType::Alibi {
+            candle::bail!("only alibi is supported as a position-embedding-type")
+        }
+        let layers = (0..cfg.num_hidden_layers)
+            .map(|index| BertLayer::new(vb.pp(&format!("layer.{index}")), cfg))
+            .collect::<Result<Vec<_>>>()?;
+        let span = tracing::span!(tracing::Level::TRACE, "encoder");
+        let alibi = build_alibi_bias(cfg)?.to_device(vb.device())?;
+        Ok(Self {
+            alibi,
+            layers,
+            span,
+        })
+    }
+}
+
+impl Module for BertEncoder {
+    fn forward(&self, xs: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let _enter = self.span.enter();
+        let seq_len = xs.dim(1)?;
+        let alibi_bias = self.alibi.i((.., .., ..seq_len, ..seq_len))?;
+        let mut xs = xs.clone();
+        for layer in self.layers.iter() {
+            xs = layer.forward(&xs, &alibi_bias)?
+        }
+        Ok(xs)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+pub struct BertModel {
+    embeddings: BertEmbeddings,
+    encoder: BertEncoder,
+    pub device: Device,
+    span: tracing::Span,
+}
+
+impl BertModel {
+    pub fn new(vb: VarBuilder, cfg: &Config) -> Result<Self> {
+        let embeddings = BertEmbeddings::new(vb.pp("embeddings"), cfg)?;
+        let encoder = BertEncoder::new(vb.pp("encoder"), cfg)?;
+        Ok(Self {
+            embeddings,
+            encoder,
+            device: vb.device().clone(),
+            span: tracing::span!(tracing::Level::TRACE, "model"),
+        })
+    }
+}
+
+impl Module for BertModel {
+    fn forward(&self, input_ids: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let _enter = self.span.enter();
+        let embedding_output = self.embeddings.forward(input_ids)?;
+        let sequence_output = self.encoder.forward(&embedding_output)?;
+        Ok(sequence_output)
+    }
+}
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs
index ce576c54..4e7c8bf0 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ pub mod convmixer;
 pub mod dinov2;
 pub mod efficientnet;
 pub mod falcon;
+pub mod jina_bert;
 pub mod llama;
 pub mod mistral;
 pub mod mixformer;