diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1208956c..0fdcedca 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -131,6 +131,8 @@ We also provide a some command line based examples using state of the art models
   dedicated submodels for hand-writing and printed recognition.
 - [Marian-MT](./candle-examples/examples/marian-mt/): neural machine translation
   model, generates the translated text from the input text.
+- [Moondream](./candle-examples/examples/moondream/): tiny computer-vision model 
+  that can answer real-world questions about images.
 
 Run them using commands like:
 ```
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/moondream/README.md b/candle-examples/examples/moondream/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e202de7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/moondream/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# candle-moondream
+
+[Moondream](https://github.com/vikhyat/moondream) is a computer-vision model can answer real-world questions about images. It's tiny by today's models, with only 1.6B parameters. That enables it to run on a variety of devices, including mobile phones and edge devices.
+
+## Running some examples
+First download an example image
+```bash
+$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vikhyat/moondream/main/assets/demo-1.jpg
+```
+
+<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vikhyat/moondream/main/assets/demo-1.jpg" width="200">
+
+Now you can run Moondream from the `candle-examples` crate:
+```bash
+$ cargo run --example moondream --release -- --prompt "What is the girl eating?" --image "./demo-1.jpg"
+
+avavx: false, neon: true, simd128: false, f16c: false
+temp: 0.00 repeat-penalty: 1.00 repeat-last-n: 64
+retrieved the files in 3.395583ms
+Running on CPU, to run on GPU(metal), build this example with `--features metal`
+loaded the model in 5.485493792s
+loaded and encoded the image Tensor[dims 3, 378, 378; f32] in 4.801396417s
+starting the inference loop
+ The girl is eating a hamburger.<
+9 tokens generated (0.68 token/s)
+```
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/moondream/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/moondream/main.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7ea6570f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/moondream/main.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,245 @@
+#[cfg(feature = "mkl")]
+extern crate intel_mkl_src;
+
+#[cfg(feature = "accelerate")]
+extern crate accelerate_src;
+
+use anyhow::{Error as E, Result};
+use clap::Parser;
+
+use candle::{DType, Device, Tensor};
+use candle_nn::VarBuilder;
+use candle_transformers::{generation::LogitsProcessor, models::moondream};
+use tokenizers::Tokenizer;
+
+struct TextGeneration {
+    model: moondream::Model,
+    device: Device,
+    tokenizer: Tokenizer,
+    logits_processor: LogitsProcessor,
+    repeat_penalty: f32,
+    repeat_last_n: usize,
+    verbose_prompt: bool,
+}
+
+impl TextGeneration {
+    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
+    fn new(
+        model: moondream::Model,
+        tokenizer: Tokenizer,
+        seed: u64,
+        temp: Option<f64>,
+        top_p: Option<f64>,
+        repeat_penalty: f32,
+        repeat_last_n: usize,
+        verbose_prompt: bool,
+        device: &Device,
+    ) -> Self {
+        let logits_processor = LogitsProcessor::new(seed, temp, top_p);
+        Self {
+            model,
+            tokenizer,
+            logits_processor,
+            repeat_penalty,
+            repeat_last_n,
+            verbose_prompt,
+            device: device.clone(),
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn run(&mut self, prompt: &str, image_embeds: &Tensor, sample_len: usize) -> Result<()> {
+        use std::io::Write;
+        println!("starting the inference loop");
+        let tokens = self.tokenizer.encode(prompt, true).map_err(E::msg)?;
+        if tokens.is_empty() {
+            anyhow::bail!("Empty prompts are not supported in the Moondream model.")
+        }
+        if self.verbose_prompt {
+            for (token, id) in tokens.get_tokens().iter().zip(tokens.get_ids().iter()) {
+                let token = token.replace('▁', " ").replace("<0x0A>", "\n");
+                println!("{id:7} -> '{token}'");
+            }
+        }
+
+        let mut tokens = tokens.get_ids().to_vec();
+        let mut generated_tokens = 0usize;
+
+        let eos_token = match self.tokenizer.get_vocab(true).get("END") {
+            Some(token) => *token,
+            None => anyhow::bail!("cannot find the EOS token"),
+        };
+
+        let start_gen = std::time::Instant::now();
+        for index in 0..sample_len {
+            let context_size = if index > 0 { 1 } else { tokens.len() };
+            let ctxt = &tokens[tokens.len().saturating_sub(context_size)..];
+            let input = Tensor::new(ctxt, &self.device)?.unsqueeze(0)?;
+            let logits = if index > 0 {
+                self.model.text_model.forward(&input)?
+            } else {
+                self.model
+                    .text_model
+                    .forward_with_img(&input, &image_embeds)?
+            };
+            let logits = logits.squeeze(0)?.to_dtype(DType::F32)?;
+            let logits = if self.repeat_penalty == 1. {
+                logits
+            } else {
+                let start_at = tokens.len().saturating_sub(self.repeat_last_n);
+                candle_transformers::utils::apply_repeat_penalty(
+                    &logits,
+                    self.repeat_penalty,
+                    &tokens[start_at..],
+                )?
+            };
+            let next_token = self.logits_processor.sample(&logits)?;
+            tokens.push(next_token);
+            generated_tokens += 1;
+            if next_token == eos_token {
+                break;
+            }
+            let token = self.tokenizer.decode(&[next_token], true).map_err(E::msg)?;
+            print!("{token}");
+            std::io::stdout().flush()?;
+        }
+
+        let dt = start_gen.elapsed();
+        println!(
+            "\n{generated_tokens} tokens generated ({:.2} token/s)",
+            generated_tokens as f64 / dt.as_secs_f64()
+        );
+
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Parser)]
+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,
+
+    /// Display the token for the specified prompt.
+    #[arg(long)]
+    verbose_prompt: bool,
+
+    #[arg(long)]
+    prompt: String,
+
+    #[arg(long)]
+    image: String,
+
+    /// The temperature used to generate samples.
+    #[arg(long)]
+    temperature: Option<f64>,
+
+    /// Nucleus sampling probability cutoff.
+    #[arg(long)]
+    top_p: Option<f64>,
+
+    /// The seed to use when generating random samples.
+    #[arg(long, default_value_t = 299792458)]
+    seed: u64,
+
+    #[arg(long, default_value_t = 5000)]
+    sample_len: usize,
+
+    /// Penalty to be applied for repeating tokens, 1. means no penalty.
+    #[arg(long, default_value_t = 1.0)]
+    repeat_penalty: f32,
+
+    /// The context size to consider for the repeat penalty.
+    #[arg(long, default_value_t = 64)]
+    repeat_last_n: usize,
+}
+
+/// Loads an image from disk using the image crate, this returns a tensor with shape
+/// (3, 378, 378).
+pub fn load_image<P: AsRef<std::path::Path>>(p: P) -> candle::Result<Tensor> {
+    let img = image::io::Reader::open(p)?
+        .decode()
+        .map_err(candle::Error::wrap)?
+        .resize_to_fill(378, 378, image::imageops::FilterType::Triangle); // Adjusted to 378x378
+    let img = img.to_rgb8();
+    let data = img.into_raw();
+    let data = Tensor::from_vec(data, (378, 378, 3), &Device::Cpu)?.permute((2, 0, 1))?;
+    let mean = Tensor::new(&[0.5f32, 0.5, 0.5], &Device::Cpu)?.reshape((3, 1, 1))?;
+    let std = Tensor::new(&[0.5f32, 0.5, 0.5], &Device::Cpu)?.reshape((3, 1, 1))?;
+    (data.to_dtype(candle::DType::F32)? / 255.)?
+        .broadcast_sub(&mean)?
+        .broadcast_div(&std)
+}
+
+#[tokio::main]
+async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    use tracing_chrome::ChromeLayerBuilder;
+    use tracing_subscriber::prelude::*;
+
+    let args = Args::parse();
+
+    let _guard = if args.tracing {
+        let (chrome_layer, guard) = ChromeLayerBuilder::new().build();
+        tracing_subscriber::registry().with(chrome_layer).init();
+        Some(guard)
+    } else {
+        None
+    };
+    println!(
+        "avx: {}, neon: {}, simd128: {}, f16c: {}",
+        candle::utils::with_avx(),
+        candle::utils::with_neon(),
+        candle::utils::with_simd128(),
+        candle::utils::with_f16c()
+    );
+    println!(
+        "temp: {:.2} repeat-penalty: {:.2} repeat-last-n: {}",
+        args.temperature.unwrap_or(0.),
+        args.repeat_penalty,
+        args.repeat_last_n
+    );
+
+    let start = std::time::Instant::now();
+    let api = hf_hub::api::tokio::Api::new()?;
+    let repo = api.model("vikhyatk/moondream2".to_string());
+    let model_file = repo.get("model.safetensors").await?;
+    let tokenizer = repo.get("tokenizer.json").await?;
+    println!("retrieved the files in {:?}", start.elapsed());
+    let tokenizer = Tokenizer::from_file(tokenizer).map_err(E::msg)?;
+
+    let start = std::time::Instant::now();
+    let device = candle_examples::device(args.cpu)?;
+    let vb = unsafe { VarBuilder::from_mmaped_safetensors(&[model_file], DType::F32, &device)? };
+    let config = moondream::Config::v2();
+    let model = moondream::Model::new(&config, vb)?;
+    println!("loaded the model in {:?}", start.elapsed());
+
+    let start = std::time::Instant::now();
+    let image = load_image(args.image)?.to_device(&device)?;
+    let image_embeds = image.unsqueeze(0)?;
+    let image_embeds = image_embeds.apply(model.vision_encoder())?;
+    println!(
+        "loaded and encoded the image {image:?} in {:?}",
+        start.elapsed()
+    );
+
+    let prompt = format!("\n\nQuestion: {0}\n\nAnswer:", args.prompt);
+
+    let mut pipeline = TextGeneration::new(
+        model,
+        tokenizer,
+        args.seed,
+        args.temperature,
+        args.top_p,
+        args.repeat_penalty,
+        args.repeat_last_n,
+        args.verbose_prompt,
+        &device,
+    );
+    pipeline.run(&prompt, &image_embeds, args.sample_len)?;
+
+    Ok(())
+}
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/mixformer.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/mixformer.rs
index f7eb0abe..edca8b9d 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/mixformer.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/mixformer.rs
@@ -438,6 +438,26 @@ impl MixFormerSequentialForCausalLM {
         xs.narrow(1, seq_len - 1, 1)?.apply(&self.head)?.squeeze(1)
     }
 
+    pub fn forward_with_img(&mut self, xs: &Tensor, img_embeds: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let _enter = self.span.enter();
+        let xs = xs.apply(&self.embedding)?;
+        let mut xs = Tensor::cat(&[img_embeds.clone(), xs], 1)?;
+        let (_b_size, seq_len, _embds) = xs.dims3()?;
+        let mask = if seq_len <= 1 {
+            None
+        } else {
+            Some(get_mask(seq_len, xs.device())?)
+        };
+        for block in self.blocks.iter_mut() {
+            xs = block.forward(&xs, mask.as_ref())?
+        }
+        let xs = xs
+            .narrow(1, seq_len - 1, 1)?
+            .apply(&self.head)?
+            .squeeze(1)?;
+        Ok(xs)
+    }
+
     pub fn clear_kv_cache(&mut self) {
         self.blocks.iter_mut().for_each(|b| b.clear_kv_cache())
     }
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs
index 980ba535..ed0e0de7 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ pub mod mistral;
 pub mod mixformer;
 pub mod mixtral;
 pub mod mobileone;
+pub mod moondream;
 pub mod mpt;
 pub mod persimmon;
 pub mod phi;
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/moondream.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/moondream.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1172bf71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/moondream.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,308 @@
+use crate::models::mixformer::{Config as PhiConfig, MixFormerSequentialForCausalLM as PhiModel};
+use candle::{IndexOp, Result, Tensor, D};
+use candle_nn::{layer_norm, linear_b, Linear, Module, VarBuilder};
+
+pub struct Config {
+    pub phi_config: PhiConfig,
+    pub vision_config: VisionConfig,
+}
+
+impl Config {
+    pub fn v2() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            phi_config: PhiConfig::v1_5(),
+            vision_config: VisionConfig::v2(),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+fn scaled_dot_product_attention(q: &Tensor, k: &Tensor, v: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+    let dim = q.dim(D::Minus1)?;
+    let scale_factor = 1.0 / (dim as f64).sqrt();
+    let k = k.transpose(D::Minus2, D::Minus1)?.contiguous()?;
+    let mut attn_weights = (q.contiguous()?.matmul(&k)? * scale_factor)?;
+    attn_weights = candle_nn::ops::softmax_last_dim(&attn_weights)?.contiguous()?;
+    let attn_weights = attn_weights.matmul(&v.contiguous()?)?;
+    Ok(attn_weights)
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, serde::Deserialize)]
+pub struct VisionConfig {
+    image_embedding_dim: usize,
+    model_dim: usize,
+    hidden_dim: usize,
+    hidden_features: usize,
+    embed_len: usize,
+    embed_dim: usize,
+    num_blocks: usize,
+    num_heads: usize,
+    act: candle_nn::Activation,
+}
+
+impl VisionConfig {
+    pub fn v2() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            image_embedding_dim: 1152,
+            model_dim: 2048,
+            hidden_dim: 2048 * 4,
+            hidden_features: 4304,
+            embed_len: 729,
+            embed_dim: 1152,
+            num_blocks: 27,
+            num_heads: 16,
+            act: candle_nn::Activation::Gelu,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+struct LinearPatchEmbedding {
+    linear: Linear,
+}
+
+impl LinearPatchEmbedding {
+    fn new(vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<Self> {
+        let linear = linear_b(588, 1152, true, vb.pp("linear"))?;
+        Ok(Self { linear })
+    }
+}
+
+impl Module for LinearPatchEmbedding {
+    fn forward(&self, xs: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        xs.apply(&self.linear)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+struct Attention {
+    num_heads: usize,
+    head_dim: usize,
+    qkv: Linear,
+    proj: Linear,
+}
+
+impl Attention {
+    pub fn new(vb: VarBuilder, dim: usize, num_heads: usize) -> Result<Self> {
+        let qkv = linear_b(dim, dim * 3, true, vb.pp("qkv"))?;
+        let proj = linear_b(dim, dim, true, vb.pp("proj"))?;
+        Ok(Self {
+            num_heads,
+            head_dim: dim / num_heads,
+            qkv,
+            proj,
+        })
+    }
+}
+
+impl Module for Attention {
+    fn forward(&self, xs: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let (b, n, c) = xs.dims3()?;
+        let qkv = xs
+            .apply(&self.qkv)?
+            .reshape((b, n, 3, self.num_heads, self.head_dim))?
+            .permute((2, 0, 3, 1, 4))?;
+        let (q, k, v) = (qkv.i(0)?, qkv.i(1)?, qkv.i(2)?);
+        let attn_weights = scaled_dot_product_attention(&q, &k, &v)?;
+        let attn_weights = attn_weights.transpose(1, 2)?.reshape((b, n, c))?;
+        attn_weights.apply(&self.proj)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+struct VitBlock {
+    attn: Attention,
+    mlp: Mlp,
+    norm1: candle_nn::LayerNorm,
+    norm2: candle_nn::LayerNorm,
+}
+
+impl VitBlock {
+    fn new(vb: VarBuilder, dim: usize, num_heads: usize, cfg: &VisionConfig) -> Result<Self> {
+        let attn = Attention::new(vb.pp("attn"), dim, num_heads)?;
+        let mlp = Mlp::new(vb.pp("mlp"), dim, cfg.hidden_features, dim, cfg.act)?;
+        let norm1 = layer_norm(dim, 1e-5, vb.pp("norm1"))?;
+        let norm2 = layer_norm(dim, 1e-5, vb.pp("norm2"))?;
+        Ok(Self {
+            attn,
+            mlp,
+            norm1,
+            norm2,
+        })
+    }
+}
+
+impl Module for VitBlock {
+    fn forward(&self, xs: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let ys = xs.apply(&self.norm1)?.apply(&self.attn)?;
+        let xs = (xs + &ys)?;
+        let ys = xs.apply(&self.norm2)?.apply(&self.mlp)?;
+        let xs = (&xs + &ys)?;
+        Ok(xs)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+struct VisionTransformer {
+    patch_embed: LinearPatchEmbedding,
+    pos_embed: Tensor,
+    blocks: Vec<VitBlock>,
+    norm: candle_nn::LayerNorm,
+}
+
+impl VisionTransformer {
+    fn new(cfg: &VisionConfig, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<Self> {
+        let patch_embed = LinearPatchEmbedding::new(vb.pp("patch_embed"))?;
+        let pos_embed = vb.get((1, cfg.embed_len, cfg.embed_dim), "pos_embed")?;
+        let blocks = (0..cfg.num_blocks)
+            .map(|i| {
+                VitBlock::new(
+                    vb.pp(&format!("blocks.{}", i)),
+                    cfg.embed_dim,
+                    cfg.num_heads,
+                    cfg,
+                )
+            })
+            .collect::<Result<_>>()?;
+        let norm = layer_norm(cfg.embed_dim, 1e-5, vb.pp("norm"))?;
+        Ok(Self {
+            patch_embed,
+            pos_embed,
+            blocks,
+            norm,
+        })
+    }
+}
+
+impl Module for VisionTransformer {
+    fn forward(&self, xs: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let mut xs = (&xs.apply(&self.patch_embed)? + &self.pos_embed)?;
+        for block in self.blocks.iter() {
+            xs = xs.apply(block)?;
+        }
+        xs.apply(&self.norm)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct Encoder {
+    model: VisionTransformer,
+}
+
+impl Encoder {
+    fn new(cfg: &VisionConfig, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<Self> {
+        let model = VisionTransformer::new(cfg, vb.pp("model.visual"))?;
+        Ok(Self { model })
+    }
+}
+
+impl Module for Encoder {
+    fn forward(&self, xs: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        xs.apply(&self.model)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+struct Mlp {
+    fc1: Linear,
+    act: candle_nn::Activation,
+    fc2: Linear,
+}
+
+impl Mlp {
+    fn new(
+        vb: VarBuilder,
+        in_features: usize,
+        hidden_features: usize,
+        out_features: usize,
+        act: candle_nn::Activation,
+    ) -> Result<Self> {
+        let fc1 = linear_b(in_features, hidden_features, true, vb.pp("fc1"))?;
+        let fc2 = linear_b(hidden_features, out_features, true, vb.pp("fc2"))?;
+        Ok(Self { fc1, act, fc2 })
+    }
+}
+
+impl Module for Mlp {
+    fn forward(&self, xs: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        xs.apply(&self.fc1)?.apply(&self.act)?.apply(&self.fc2)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+struct VisionProjection {
+    mlp: Mlp,
+}
+
+impl VisionProjection {
+    fn new(cfg: &VisionConfig, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<Self> {
+        let mlp = Mlp::new(
+            vb.pp("mlp"),
+            cfg.image_embedding_dim,
+            cfg.hidden_dim,
+            cfg.model_dim,
+            cfg.act,
+        )?;
+        Ok(Self { mlp })
+    }
+}
+
+impl Module for VisionProjection {
+    fn forward(&self, xs: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        xs.apply(&self.mlp)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct VisionEncoder {
+    encoder: Encoder,
+    projection: VisionProjection,
+}
+
+impl VisionEncoder {
+    pub fn new(cfg: &VisionConfig, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<Self> {
+        let encoder = Encoder::new(cfg, vb.pp("encoder"))?;
+        let projection = VisionProjection::new(cfg, vb.pp("projection"))?;
+        Ok(Self {
+            encoder,
+            projection,
+        })
+    }
+}
+
+impl Module for VisionEncoder {
+    fn forward(&self, xs: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let (b, c, hp1, wp2) = xs.dims4()?;
+        let (p1, p2) = (14, 14);
+        let h = hp1 / p1;
+        let w = wp2 / p2;
+        let xs = xs
+            .reshape((b, c, h, p1, h, p2))?
+            .permute((0, 2, 4, 1, 3, 5))?
+            .reshape((b, h * w, c * p1 * p2))?;
+        xs.apply(&self.encoder)?.apply(&self.projection)
+    }
+}
+
+pub struct Model {
+    pub text_model: PhiModel,
+    pub vision_encoder: VisionEncoder,
+}
+
+impl Model {
+    pub fn new(config: &Config, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<Self> {
+        let text_model = PhiModel::new_v2(&config.phi_config, vb.pp("text_model"))?;
+        let vision_encoder = VisionEncoder::new(&config.vision_config, vb.pp("vision_encoder"))?;
+        Ok(Self {
+            text_model,
+            vision_encoder,
+        })
+    }
+
+    pub fn vision_encoder(&self) -> &VisionEncoder {
+        &self.vision_encoder
+    }
+
+    pub fn text_model(&mut self) -> &mut PhiModel {
+        &mut self.text_model
+    }
+}