diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/replit-code/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/replit-code/main.rs
index 82c6c980..0f72b862 100644
--- a/candle-examples/examples/replit-code/main.rs
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/replit-code/main.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ extern crate accelerate_src;
 use anyhow::{Error as E, Result};
 use clap::Parser;
 
-use candle_transformers::models::mpt::{Config, Model};
+use candle_transformers::models::mpt::{Config, Model as M};
+use candle_transformers::models::quantized_mpt::Model as Q;
 
 use candle::{DType, Device, Tensor};
 use candle_nn::VarBuilder;
@@ -15,6 +16,20 @@ use candle_transformers::generation::LogitsProcessor;
 use hf_hub::{api::sync::Api, Repo, RepoType};
 use tokenizers::Tokenizer;
 
+enum Model {
+    M(M),
+    Q(Q),
+}
+
+impl Model {
+    fn forward(&mut self, xs: &Tensor) -> candle::Result<Tensor> {
+        match self {
+            Self::M(model) => model.forward(xs),
+            Self::Q(model) => model.forward(xs),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 struct TextGeneration {
     model: Model,
     device: Device,
@@ -148,6 +163,9 @@ struct Args {
     #[arg(long)]
     revision: Option<String>,
 
+    #[arg(long)]
+    quantized: bool,
+
     #[arg(long)]
     weight_file: Option<String>,
 
@@ -206,16 +224,29 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
     };
     let filename = match args.weight_file {
         Some(weight_file) => std::path::PathBuf::from(weight_file),
-        None => repo.get("model.safetensors")?,
+        None => {
+            if args.quantized {
+                repo.get("model-replit-code-v1_5-q4k.gguf")?
+            } else {
+                repo.get("model.safetensors")?
+            }
+        }
     };
     println!("retrieved the files in {:?}", start.elapsed());
     let tokenizer = Tokenizer::from_file(tokenizer_filename).map_err(E::msg)?;
 
     let start = std::time::Instant::now();
     let config = Config::replit_code_v1_5_3b();
-    let device = candle_examples::device(args.cpu)?;
-    let vb = unsafe { VarBuilder::from_mmaped_safetensors(&[filename], DType::F32, &device)? };
-    let model = Model::new(&config, vb.pp("transformer"))?;
+    let (model, device) = if args.quantized {
+        let vb = candle_transformers::quantized_var_builder::VarBuilder::from_gguf(&filename)?;
+        let model = Model::Q(Q::new(&config, vb.pp("transformer"))?);
+        (model, Device::Cpu)
+    } else {
+        let device = candle_examples::device(args.cpu)?;
+        let vb = unsafe { VarBuilder::from_mmaped_safetensors(&[filename], DType::F32, &device)? };
+        let model = Model::M(M::new(&config, vb.pp("transformer"))?);
+        (model, device)
+    };
     println!("loaded the model in {:?}", start.elapsed());
 
     let mut pipeline = TextGeneration::new(
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs
index 8a02e2da..fc57e732 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ pub mod mpt;
 pub mod quantized_llama;
 pub mod quantized_mistral;
 pub mod quantized_mixformer;
+pub mod quantized_mpt;
 pub mod quantized_stable_lm;
 pub mod quantized_t5;
 pub mod segment_anything;
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/mpt.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/mpt.rs
index 300a1d57..0d91bf94 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/mpt.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/mpt.rs
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ impl GroupedQueryAttention {
 // This is the equivalent of torch.repeat_interleave(x, dim=1, repeats=n_rep).
 // The hidden states go from (batch, num_key_value_heads, seqlen, head_dim) to
 // (batch, num_attention_heads, seqlen, head_dim)
-fn repeat_kv(xs: Tensor, n_rep: usize) -> Result<Tensor> {
+pub(crate) fn repeat_kv(xs: Tensor, n_rep: usize) -> Result<Tensor> {
     if n_rep == 1 {
         Ok(xs)
     } else {
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ impl MPTBlock {
     }
 }
 
-fn build_alibi_bias(cfg: &Config) -> Result<Tensor> {
+pub(crate) fn build_alibi_bias(cfg: &Config) -> Result<Tensor> {
     let full = !cfg.is_causal();
     let seq_len = cfg.max_seq_len;
     let alibi_bias = Tensor::arange(1 - seq_len as i64, 1, &Device::Cpu)?;
@@ -289,14 +289,14 @@ impl Model {
     }
 }
 
-fn get_mask(size: usize, device: &Device) -> Result<Tensor> {
+pub(crate) fn get_mask(size: usize, device: &Device) -> Result<Tensor> {
     let mask: Vec<_> = (0..size)
         .flat_map(|i| (0..size).map(move |j| u8::from(j > i)))
         .collect();
     Tensor::from_slice(&mask, (size, size), device)
 }
 
-fn masked_fill(on_false: &Tensor, mask: &Tensor, on_true: f32) -> Result<Tensor> {
+pub(crate) fn masked_fill(on_false: &Tensor, mask: &Tensor, on_true: f32) -> Result<Tensor> {
     let shape = mask.shape();
     let on_true = Tensor::new(on_true, on_false.device())?.broadcast_as(shape.dims())?;
     let m = mask.where_cond(&on_true, on_false)?;
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/quantized_mpt.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/quantized_mpt.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7586e4c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/quantized_mpt.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,201 @@
+use crate::quantized_nn::{layer_norm_no_bias, linear_no_bias, Embedding, Linear};
+pub use crate::quantized_var_builder::VarBuilder;
+/// MPT model used by replit-code-v1_5-3b
+/// https://huggingface.co/replit/replit-code-v1_5-3b/blob/main/modeling_mpt.py
+use candle::{IndexOp, Module, Result, Tensor, D};
+use candle_nn::LayerNorm;
+
+pub use super::mpt::Config;
+
+#[derive(Debug)]
+struct GroupedQueryAttention {
+    wqkv: Linear,
+    out_proj: Linear,
+    kv_cache: Option<(Tensor, Tensor)>,
+    softmax_scale: f64,
+    head_dim: usize,
+    d_model: usize,
+    n_heads: usize,
+    kv_n_heads: usize,
+    attn_bias: Tensor,
+    span: tracing::Span,
+}
+
+impl GroupedQueryAttention {
+    fn new(cfg: &Config, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<Self> {
+        let head_dim = cfg.d_model / cfg.n_heads;
+        let wqkv_size = cfg.d_model + 2 * cfg.kv_n_heads * head_dim;
+        let wqkv = linear_no_bias(cfg.d_model, wqkv_size, vb.pp("Wqkv"))?;
+        let softmax_scale = 1f64 / (head_dim as f64).sqrt();
+        let out_proj = linear_no_bias(cfg.d_model, cfg.d_model, vb.pp("out_proj"))?;
+        let attn_bias = super::mpt::build_alibi_bias(cfg)?.to_device(vb.device())?;
+        Ok(Self {
+            wqkv,
+            out_proj,
+            kv_cache: None,
+            softmax_scale,
+            head_dim,
+            d_model: cfg.d_model,
+            n_heads: cfg.n_heads,
+            kv_n_heads: cfg.kv_n_heads,
+            attn_bias,
+            span: tracing::span!(tracing::Level::TRACE, "gqa"),
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn forward(&mut self, xs: &Tensor, mask: Option<&Tensor>) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let _enter = self.span.enter();
+        let (b_size, seq_len, _n_embd) = xs.dims3()?;
+        let qkv = self.wqkv.forward(xs)?;
+        let query = qkv.narrow(2, 0, self.d_model)?;
+        let kv_size = self.kv_n_heads * self.head_dim;
+        let key = qkv.narrow(2, self.d_model, kv_size)?;
+        let value = qkv.narrow(2, self.d_model + kv_size, kv_size)?;
+        // scaled_multihead_dot_product_attention
+        let query = query
+            .reshape((b_size, seq_len, self.n_heads, ()))?
+            .transpose(1, 2)?; // b,h,s,d
+        let key = key
+            .reshape((b_size, seq_len, self.kv_n_heads, ()))?
+            .permute((0, 2, 3, 1))?; // b,h,d,s
+        let value = value
+            .reshape((b_size, seq_len, self.kv_n_heads, ()))?
+            .transpose(1, 2)?; // b,h,s,d
+        let (key, value) = match &self.kv_cache {
+            None => (key, value),
+            Some((prev_k, prev_v)) => {
+                let k = Tensor::cat(&[prev_k, &key], 3)?;
+                let v = Tensor::cat(&[prev_v, &value], 2)?;
+                (k, v)
+            }
+        };
+        self.kv_cache = Some((key.clone(), value.clone()));
+        let query = query.contiguous()?;
+        let key = super::mpt::repeat_kv(key, self.n_heads / self.kv_n_heads)?.contiguous()?;
+        let value = super::mpt::repeat_kv(value, self.n_heads / self.kv_n_heads)?.contiguous()?;
+        let attn_weights = (query.matmul(&key)? * self.softmax_scale)?;
+        let attn_bias = {
+            let s_q = query.dim(D::Minus2)?;
+            let s_k = key.dim(D::Minus1)?;
+            let (_, _, a_q, a_k) = self.attn_bias.dims4()?;
+            let start_q = a_q.saturating_sub(s_q);
+            let start_k = a_k.saturating_sub(s_k);
+            self.attn_bias.i((.., .., start_q.., start_k..))?
+        };
+        let attn_weights = attn_weights.broadcast_add(&attn_bias)?;
+        let attn_weights = match mask {
+            None => attn_weights,
+            Some(mask) => super::mpt::masked_fill(
+                &attn_weights,
+                &mask.broadcast_as(attn_weights.shape())?,
+                f32::NEG_INFINITY,
+            )?,
+        };
+        let attn_weights = candle_nn::ops::softmax_last_dim(&attn_weights)?;
+        let attn_output = attn_weights
+            .matmul(&value)?
+            .transpose(1, 2)?
+            .flatten_from(D::Minus2)?;
+        let out = attn_output.apply(&self.out_proj)?;
+        Ok(out)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug)]
+struct Ffn {
+    up_proj: Linear,
+    down_proj: Linear,
+}
+
+impl Ffn {
+    fn new(cfg: &Config, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<Self> {
+        let hidden = cfg.d_model * cfg.expansion_ratio;
+        let up_proj = linear_no_bias(cfg.d_model, hidden, vb.pp("up_proj"))?;
+        let down_proj = linear_no_bias(hidden, cfg.d_model, vb.pp("down_proj"))?;
+        Ok(Self { up_proj, down_proj })
+    }
+}
+
+impl Module for Ffn {
+    fn forward(&self, xs: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        xs.apply(&self.up_proj)?.gelu_erf()?.apply(&self.down_proj)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug)]
+struct MPTBlock {
+    norm1: LayerNorm, // Do we need the low-precision variant?
+    attn: GroupedQueryAttention,
+    norm2: LayerNorm,
+    ffn: Ffn,
+}
+
+impl MPTBlock {
+    fn new(cfg: &Config, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<Self> {
+        let norm1 = layer_norm_no_bias(cfg.d_model, 1e-5, vb.pp("norm_1"))?;
+        let norm2 = layer_norm_no_bias(cfg.d_model, 1e-5, vb.pp("norm_2"))?;
+        let attn = GroupedQueryAttention::new(cfg, vb.pp("attn"))?;
+        let ffn = Ffn::new(cfg, vb.pp("ffn"))?;
+        Ok(Self {
+            norm1,
+            attn,
+            norm2,
+            ffn,
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn forward(&mut self, xs: &Tensor, mask: Option<&Tensor>) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let residual = xs;
+        let xs = xs.apply(&self.norm1)?;
+        let xs = self.attn.forward(&xs, mask)?;
+        let xs = (xs + residual)?;
+        let residual = &xs;
+        let xs = xs.apply(&self.norm2)?.apply(&self.ffn)?;
+        xs + residual
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub struct Model {
+    wte: Embedding,
+    blocks: Vec<MPTBlock>,
+    norm_f: LayerNorm,
+}
+
+impl Model {
+    pub fn new(cfg: &Config, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<Self> {
+        let wte = Embedding::new(cfg.vocab_size, cfg.d_model, vb.pp("wte"))?;
+        let vb_b = vb.pp("blocks");
+        let mut blocks = Vec::with_capacity(cfg.n_layers);
+        for i in 0..cfg.n_layers {
+            let block = MPTBlock::new(cfg, vb_b.pp(i))?;
+            blocks.push(block)
+        }
+        let norm_f = layer_norm_no_bias(cfg.d_model, 1e-5, vb.pp("norm_f"))?;
+        Ok(Self {
+            wte,
+            blocks,
+            norm_f,
+        })
+    }
+
+    pub fn forward(&mut self, xs: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let (_b_size, seq_len) = xs.dims2()?;
+        let mut xs = xs.apply(&self.wte)?;
+        let mask = if seq_len <= 1 {
+            None
+        } else {
+            Some(super::mpt::get_mask(seq_len, xs.device())?)
+        };
+        for block in self.blocks.iter_mut() {
+            xs = block.forward(&xs, mask.as_ref())?;
+        }
+        let xs = xs.apply(&self.norm_f)?;
+        let logits = xs
+            .narrow(1, seq_len - 1, 1)?
+            .squeeze(1)?
+            .matmul(&self.wte.embeddings().t()?)?
+            .squeeze(1)?;
+        Ok(logits)
+    }
+}
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/quantized_nn.rs b/candle-transformers/src/quantized_nn.rs
index 1745327d..d71c3b60 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/quantized_nn.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/quantized_nn.rs
@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ pub fn layer_norm(size: usize, eps: f64, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<candle_nn::La
     Ok(candle_nn::LayerNorm::new(weight, bias, eps))
 }
 
+pub fn layer_norm_no_bias(size: usize, eps: f64, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<candle_nn::LayerNorm> {
+    let weight = vb.get(size, "weight")?.dequantize(vb.device())?;
+    Ok(candle_nn::LayerNorm::new_no_bias(weight, eps))
+}
+
 pub fn linear_no_bias(in_dim: usize, out_dim: usize, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<Linear> {
     let weight = QMatMul::new(in_dim, out_dim, vb)?;
     Ok(Linear { weight, bias: None })