diff --git a/cmd/cmd.go b/cmd/cmd.go
index 9f6c928c..bf55061f 100644
--- a/cmd/cmd.go
+++ b/cmd/cmd.go
@@ -105,24 +105,48 @@ func CreateHandler(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 
 				zf := zip.NewWriter(tf)
 
-				files, err := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(path, "model-*.safetensors"))
+				files := []string{}
+
+				tfiles, err := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(path, "pytorch_model-*.bin"))
 				if err != nil {
 					return err
+				} else if len(tfiles) == 0 {
+					tfiles, err = filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(path, "model-*.safetensors"))
+					if err != nil {
+						return err
+					}
 				}
 
+				files = append(files, tfiles...)
+
 				if len(files) == 0 {
-					return fmt.Errorf("no safetensors files were found in '%s'", path)
+					return fmt.Errorf("no models were found in '%s'", path)
 				}
 
-				// add the safetensor config file + tokenizer
+				// add the safetensor/torch config file + tokenizer
 				files = append(files, filepath.Join(path, "config.json"))
+				files = append(files, filepath.Join(path, "params.json"))
 				files = append(files, filepath.Join(path, "added_tokens.json"))
 				files = append(files, filepath.Join(path, "tokenizer.model"))
 
 				for _, fn := range files {
 					f, err := os.Open(fn)
-					if os.IsNotExist(err) && strings.HasSuffix(fn, "added_tokens.json") {
-						continue
+
+					// just skip whatever files aren't there
+					if os.IsNotExist(err) {
+						if strings.HasSuffix(fn, "tokenizer.model") {
+							// try the parent dir before giving up
+							parentDir := filepath.Dir(path)
+							newFn := filepath.Join(parentDir, "tokenizer.model")
+							f, err = os.Open(newFn)
+							if os.IsNotExist(err) {
+								continue
+							} else if err != nil {
+								return err
+							}
+						} else {
+							continue
+						}
 					} else if err != nil {
 						return err
 					}
diff --git a/convert/convert.go b/convert/convert.go
index fc4f3085..bf6f0bf5 100644
--- a/convert/convert.go
+++ b/convert/convert.go
@@ -1,21 +1,16 @@
 package convert
 
 import (
-	"bytes"
 	"cmp"
 	"encoding/binary"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
-	"io"
 	"log/slog"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
-	"regexp"
 	"slices"
+	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/d4l3k/go-bfloat16"
-	"github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure"
-	"github.com/x448/float16"
 	"google.golang.org/protobuf/proto"
 
 	"github.com/ollama/ollama/convert/sentencepiece"
@@ -45,157 +40,45 @@ type ByteOrder interface {
 	binary.AppendByteOrder
 }
 
-type MetaData struct {
-	Type    string `mapstructure:"dtype"`
-	Shape   []int  `mapstructure:"shape"`
-	Offsets []int  `mapstructure:"data_offsets"`
-}
-
 type ModelArch interface {
 	GetTensors() error
 	LoadVocab() error
 	WriteGGUF() (string, error)
 }
 
+type ModelFormat interface {
+	GetLayerName(string) (string, error)
+	GetTensors(string, *Params) ([]llm.Tensor, error)
+	GetParams(string) (*Params, error)
+	GetModelArch(string, string, *Params) (ModelArch, error)
+}
+
 type ModelData struct {
 	Path    string
 	Name    string
 	Params  *Params
 	Vocab   *Vocab
 	Tensors []llm.Tensor
+	Format  ModelFormat
 }
 
-func ReadSafeTensors(fn string, offset uint64, params *Params) ([]llm.Tensor, uint64, error) {
-	f, err := os.Open(fn)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, 0, err
-	}
-	defer f.Close()
-
-	var jsonSize uint64
-	if err := binary.Read(f, binary.LittleEndian, &jsonSize); err != nil {
-		return nil, 0, err
-	}
-
-	buf := make([]byte, jsonSize)
-	_, err = io.ReadFull(f, buf)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, 0, err
-	}
-
-	d := json.NewDecoder(bytes.NewBuffer(buf))
-	d.UseNumber()
-	var parsed map[string]interface{}
-	if err = d.Decode(&parsed); err != nil {
-		return nil, 0, err
-	}
-
-	var keys []string
-	for k := range parsed {
-		keys = append(keys, k)
-	}
-
-	slices.Sort(keys)
-
-	slog.Info("converting layers")
-
-	var tensors []llm.Tensor
-	for _, k := range keys {
-		vals := parsed[k].(map[string]interface{})
-		var data MetaData
-		if err = mapstructure.Decode(vals, &data); err != nil {
-			return nil, 0, err
-		}
-
-		var size uint64
-		var kind uint32
-		switch len(data.Shape) {
-		case 0:
-			// metadata
-			continue
-		case 1:
-			// convert to float32
-			kind = 0
-			size = uint64(data.Shape[0] * 4)
-		case 2:
-			// convert to float16
-			kind = 1
-			size = uint64(data.Shape[0] * data.Shape[1] * 2)
-		}
-
-		ggufName, err := GetTensorName(k)
-		if err != nil {
-			slog.Error("%v", err)
-			return nil, 0, err
-		}
-
-		shape := []uint64{0, 0, 0, 0}
-		for i := range data.Shape {
-			shape[i] = uint64(data.Shape[i])
-		}
-
-		t := llm.Tensor{
-			Name:   ggufName,
-			Kind:   kind,
-			Offset: offset,
-			Shape:  shape[:],
-		}
-
-		t.WriterTo = safetensorWriterTo{
-			t:        &t,
-			params:   params,
-			bo:       params.ByteOrder,
-			filename: fn,
-			start:    uint64(data.Offsets[0]),
-			end:      uint64(data.Offsets[1]),
-			padding:  8 + jsonSize,
-		}
-
-		slog.Debug(fmt.Sprintf("%v", t))
-		tensors = append(tensors, t)
-		offset += size
-	}
-	return tensors, offset, nil
-}
-
-func GetSafeTensors(dirpath string, params *Params) ([]llm.Tensor, error) {
-	var tensors []llm.Tensor
-	files, err := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(dirpath, "/model-*.safetensors"))
+func GetModelFormat(dirname string) (ModelFormat, error) {
+	files, err := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(dirname, "*"))
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	var offset uint64
-	for _, f := range files {
-		var t []llm.Tensor
-		var err error
-		t, offset, err = ReadSafeTensors(f, offset, params)
-		if err != nil {
-			slog.Error("%v", err)
-			return nil, err
+	for _, fn := range files {
+		slog.Debug(fmt.Sprintf("file = %s", fn))
+		if strings.HasSuffix(fn, ".safetensors") {
+			return &SafetensorFormat{}, nil
+		} else if strings.HasSuffix(fn, ".bin") {
+			slog.Debug("model is torch")
+			return &TorchFormat{}, nil
 		}
-		tensors = append(tensors, t...)
-	}
-	return tensors, nil
-}
-
-func GetParams(dirpath string) (*Params, error) {
-	f, err := os.Open(filepath.Join(dirpath, "config.json"))
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	defer f.Close()
-
-	var params Params
-
-	d := json.NewDecoder(f)
-	err = d.Decode(&params)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	params.ByteOrder = binary.LittleEndian
-	return &params, nil
+	return nil, fmt.Errorf("couldn't determine model format")
 }
 
 // Details on gguf's tokenizer can be found at:
@@ -206,7 +89,7 @@ type Vocab struct {
 	Types  []int32
 }
 
-func LoadSentencePieceTokens(dirpath string, vocabSize int) (*Vocab, error) {
+func LoadSentencePieceTokens(dirpath string, params *Params) (*Vocab, error) {
 	slog.Info(fmt.Sprintf("reading vocab from %s", filepath.Join(dirpath, "tokenizer.model")))
 	in, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dirpath, "tokenizer.model"))
 	if err != nil {
@@ -286,8 +169,8 @@ func LoadSentencePieceTokens(dirpath string, vocabSize int) (*Vocab, error) {
 	}
 	slog.Info(fmt.Sprintf("vocab size w/ extra tokens: %d", len(v.Tokens)))
 
-	if vocabSize > len(v.Tokens) {
-		missingTokens := vocabSize - len(v.Tokens)
+	if params.VocabSize > len(v.Tokens) {
+		missingTokens := params.VocabSize - len(v.Tokens)
 		slog.Warn(fmt.Sprintf("vocab is missing %d tokens", missingTokens))
 		for cnt := 0; cnt < missingTokens; cnt++ {
 			v.Tokens = append(v.Tokens, fmt.Sprintf("<dummy%05d>", cnt+1))
@@ -298,136 +181,3 @@ func LoadSentencePieceTokens(dirpath string, vocabSize int) (*Vocab, error) {
 
 	return v, nil
 }
-
-func GetTensorName(n string) (string, error) {
-	tMap := map[string]string{
-		"model.embed_tokens.weight":                           "token_embd.weight",
-		"model.layers.(\\d+).input_layernorm.weight":          "blk.$1.attn_norm.weight",
-		"model.layers.(\\d+).mlp.down_proj.weight":            "blk.$1.ffn_down.weight",
-		"model.layers.(\\d+).mlp.gate_proj.weight":            "blk.$1.ffn_gate.weight",
-		"model.layers.(\\d+).mlp.up_proj.weight":              "blk.$1.ffn_up.weight",
-		"model.layers.(\\d+).post_attention_layernorm.weight": "blk.$1.ffn_norm.weight",
-		"model.layers.(\\d+).self_attn.k_proj.weight":         "blk.$1.attn_k.weight",
-		"model.layers.(\\d+).self_attn.o_proj.weight":         "blk.$1.attn_output.weight",
-		"model.layers.(\\d+).self_attn.q_proj.weight":         "blk.$1.attn_q.weight",
-		"model.layers.(\\d+).self_attn.v_proj.weight":         "blk.$1.attn_v.weight",
-		"lm_head.weight":    "output.weight",
-		"model.norm.weight": "output_norm.weight",
-	}
-
-	v, ok := tMap[n]
-	if ok {
-		return v, nil
-	}
-
-	// quick hack to rename the layers to gguf format
-	for k, v := range tMap {
-		re := regexp.MustCompile(k)
-		newName := re.ReplaceAllString(n, v)
-		if newName != n {
-			return newName, nil
-		}
-	}
-
-	return "", fmt.Errorf("couldn't find a layer name for '%s'", n)
-}
-
-type safetensorWriterTo struct {
-	t *llm.Tensor
-
-	params *Params
-	bo     ByteOrder
-
-	filename string
-
-	start, end, padding uint64
-	handler             func(w io.Writer, r safetensorWriterTo, f *os.File) error
-}
-
-func (r safetensorWriterTo) WriteTo(w io.Writer) (n int64, err error) {
-	f, err := os.Open(r.filename)
-	if err != nil {
-		return 0, err
-	}
-	defer f.Close()
-
-	if _, err = f.Seek(int64(r.padding+r.start), 0); err != nil {
-		return 0, err
-	}
-
-	// use the handler if one is present
-	if r.handler != nil {
-		return 0, r.handler(w, r, f)
-	}
-
-	remaining := r.end - r.start
-
-	bufSize := uint64(10240)
-	var finished bool
-	for {
-		data := make([]byte, min(bufSize, remaining))
-
-		b, err := io.ReadFull(f, data)
-		remaining -= uint64(b)
-
-		if err == io.EOF || remaining <= 0 {
-			finished = true
-		} else if err != nil {
-			return 0, err
-		}
-
-		// convert bfloat16 -> ieee float32
-		tDataF32 := bfloat16.DecodeFloat32(data)
-
-		switch r.t.Kind {
-		case 0:
-			if err := binary.Write(w, r.bo, tDataF32); err != nil {
-				return 0, err
-			}
-		case 1:
-			// convert float32 -> float16
-			tempBuf := make([]uint16, len(data)/2)
-			for cnt, v := range tDataF32 {
-				tDataF16 := float16.Fromfloat32(v)
-				tempBuf[cnt] = uint16(tDataF16)
-			}
-			if err := binary.Write(w, binary.LittleEndian, tempBuf); err != nil {
-				return 0, err
-			}
-		}
-		if finished {
-			break
-		}
-	}
-	return 0, nil
-}
-
-func GetModelArchFromParams(name, dirPath string, params *Params) (ModelArch, error) {
-	switch len(params.Architectures) {
-	case 0:
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("No architecture specified to convert")
-	case 1:
-		switch params.Architectures[0] {
-		case "MistralForCausalLM":
-			return &MistralModel{
-				ModelData{
-					Name:   name,
-					Path:   dirPath,
-					Params: params,
-				},
-			}, nil
-		case "GemmaForCausalLM":
-			return &GemmaModel{
-				ModelData{
-					Name:   name,
-					Path:   dirPath,
-					Params: params,
-				},
-			}, nil
-		default:
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("Models based on '%s' are not yet supported", params.Architectures[0])
-		}
-	}
-
-	return nil, fmt.Errorf("Unknown error")
-}
diff --git a/convert/gemma.go b/convert/gemma.go
index 7ccc065a..648a4ad9 100644
--- a/convert/gemma.go
+++ b/convert/gemma.go
@@ -65,13 +65,14 @@ func addOnes(data []float32, vectorSize int) ([]float32, error) {
 }
 
 func (m *GemmaModel) GetTensors() error {
-	t, err := GetSafeTensors(m.Path, m.Params)
+	t, err := m.Format.GetTensors(m.Path, m.Params)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	m.Tensors = []llm.Tensor{}
+	slog.Debug(fmt.Sprintf("Total tensors: %d", len(t)))
 
+	m.Tensors = []llm.Tensor{}
 	for _, l := range t {
 		if strings.HasSuffix(l.Name, "norm.weight") {
 			wt := l.WriterTo.(safetensorWriterTo)
@@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ func (m *GemmaModel) GetTensors() error {
 }
 
 func (m *GemmaModel) LoadVocab() error {
-	v, err := LoadSentencePieceTokens(m.Path, m.Params.VocabSize)
+	v, err := LoadSentencePieceTokens(m.Path, m.Params)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
diff --git a/convert/llama.go b/convert/llama.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c7f7b290
--- /dev/null
+++ b/convert/llama.go
@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+package convert
+
+import (
+	"encoding/binary"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"log/slog"
+	"os"
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/nlpodyssey/gopickle/pytorch"
+	"github.com/pdevine/tensor"
+	"github.com/pdevine/tensor/native"
+	"github.com/x448/float16"
+
+	"github.com/ollama/ollama/llm"
+)
+
+type LlamaModel struct {
+	ModelData
+}
+
+func llamaLayerHandler(w io.Writer, r torchWriterTo) error {
+	slog.Debug(fmt.Sprintf("repacking layer '%s'", r.t.Name))
+
+	data := r.storage.(*pytorch.HalfStorage).Data
+	tData := make([]uint16, len(data))
+	for cnt, v := range data {
+		tData[cnt] = uint16(float16.Fromfloat32(v))
+	}
+
+	var err error
+	var heads uint32
+	if strings.Contains(r.t.Name, "attn_q") {
+		heads = uint32(r.params.AttentionHeads)
+	} else if strings.Contains(r.t.Name, "attn_k") {
+		heads = uint32(r.params.KeyValHeads)
+		if heads == 0 {
+			heads = uint32(r.params.AttentionHeads)
+		}
+	} else {
+		return fmt.Errorf("unknown layer type")
+	}
+
+	slog.Debug(fmt.Sprintf("heads = %d", heads))
+
+	tData, err = llamaRepack(tData, int(heads), r.t.Shape)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	if err = binary.Write(w, r.bo, tData); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func llamaRepack(data []uint16, heads int, shape []uint64) ([]uint16, error) {
+	n := tensor.New(tensor.WithShape(int(shape[0]), int(shape[1])), tensor.WithBacking(data))
+	origShape := n.Shape().Clone()
+
+	// reshape the tensor and swap axes 1 and 2 to unpack the layer for gguf
+	if err := n.Reshape(heads, 2, origShape[0]/heads/2, origShape[1]); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	if err := n.T(0, 2, 1, 3); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	if err := n.Reshape(origShape...); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	if err := n.Transpose(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	newN, err := native.SelectU16(n, 1)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	var fullTensor []uint16
+	for _, v := range newN {
+		fullTensor = append(fullTensor, v...)
+	}
+	return fullTensor, nil
+}
+
+func (m *LlamaModel) GetTensors() error {
+	t, err := m.Format.GetTensors(m.Path, m.Params)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	m.Tensors = []llm.Tensor{}
+
+	pattern := `^blk\.[0-9]+\.attn_(?P<layer>q|k)\.weight$`
+	re, err := regexp.Compile(pattern)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	for _, l := range t {
+		matches := re.FindAllStringSubmatch(l.Name, -1)
+		if len(matches) > 0 {
+			slog.Debug(fmt.Sprintf("setting handler for: %s", l.Name))
+			wt := l.WriterTo.(torchWriterTo)
+			wt.handler = llamaLayerHandler
+			l.WriterTo = wt
+		}
+		m.Tensors = append(m.Tensors, l)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (m *LlamaModel) LoadVocab() error {
+	var v *Vocab
+	var err error
+
+	slog.Debug("loading vocab")
+	v, err = LoadSentencePieceTokens(m.Path, m.Params)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	slog.Debug("vocab loaded")
+
+	m.Vocab = v
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (m *LlamaModel) WriteGGUF() (string, error) {
+	kv := llm.KV{
+		"general.architecture":                   "llama",
+		"general.name":                           m.Name,
+		"llama.vocab_size":                       uint32(len(m.Vocab.Tokens)),
+		"llama.context_length":                   uint32(m.Params.ContextSize),
+		"llama.embedding_length":                 uint32(m.Params.HiddenSize),
+		"llama.block_count":                      uint32(m.Params.HiddenLayers),
+		"llama.feed_forward_length":              uint32(m.Params.IntermediateSize),
+		"llama.rope.dimension_count":             uint32(m.Params.HiddenSize / m.Params.AttentionHeads),
+		"llama.attention.head_count":             uint32(m.Params.AttentionHeads),
+		"llama.attention.head_count_kv":          uint32(m.Params.KeyValHeads),
+		"llama.attention.layer_norm_rms_epsilon": float32(m.Params.NormEPS),
+		"general.file_type":                      uint32(1),
+		"tokenizer.ggml.model":                   "llama",
+
+		"tokenizer.ggml.tokens":     m.Vocab.Tokens,
+		"tokenizer.ggml.scores":     m.Vocab.Scores,
+		"tokenizer.ggml.token_type": m.Vocab.Types,
+
+		"tokenizer.ggml.bos_token_id":     uint32(m.Params.BoSTokenID),
+		"tokenizer.ggml.eos_token_id":     uint32(m.Params.EoSTokenID),
+		"tokenizer.ggml.unknown_token_id": uint32(0),
+		"tokenizer.ggml.add_bos_token":    true,
+		"tokenizer.ggml.add_eos_token":    false,
+	}
+
+	f, err := os.CreateTemp("", "ollama-gguf")
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	defer f.Close()
+
+	mod := llm.NewGGUFV3(m.Params.ByteOrder)
+	if err := mod.Encode(f, kv, m.Tensors); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+
+	slog.Debug(fmt.Sprintf("gguf file = %s", f.Name()))
+
+	return f.Name(), nil
+}
diff --git a/convert/mistral.go b/convert/mistral.go
index 51ad6729..70c92edd 100644
--- a/convert/mistral.go
+++ b/convert/mistral.go
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ func repack(data []uint16, heads int, shape []uint64) ([]uint16, error) {
 }
 
 func (m *MistralModel) GetTensors() error {
-	t, err := GetSafeTensors(m.Path, m.Params)
+	t, err := m.Format.GetTensors(m.Path, m.Params)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ func (m *MistralModel) GetTensors() error {
 }
 
 func (m *MistralModel) LoadVocab() error {
-	v, err := LoadSentencePieceTokens(m.Path, m.Params.VocabSize)
+	v, err := LoadSentencePieceTokens(m.Path, m.Params)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
diff --git a/convert/safetensors.go b/convert/safetensors.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..468bc707
--- /dev/null
+++ b/convert/safetensors.go
@@ -0,0 +1,304 @@
+package convert
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/binary"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"log/slog"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"regexp"
+	"slices"
+
+	"github.com/d4l3k/go-bfloat16"
+	"github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure"
+	"github.com/x448/float16"
+
+	"github.com/ollama/ollama/llm"
+)
+
+type safetensorWriterTo struct {
+	t *llm.Tensor
+
+	params *Params
+	bo     ByteOrder
+
+	filename string
+
+	start, end, padding uint64
+	handler             func(w io.Writer, r safetensorWriterTo, f *os.File) error
+}
+
+type tensorMetaData struct {
+	Type    string `mapstructure:"dtype"`
+	Shape   []int  `mapstructure:"shape"`
+	Offsets []int  `mapstructure:"data_offsets"`
+}
+
+type SafetensorFormat struct{}
+
+func (m *SafetensorFormat) GetTensors(dirpath string, params *Params) ([]llm.Tensor, error) {
+	slog.Debug("getting tensor data")
+	var tensors []llm.Tensor
+	files, err := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(dirpath, "/model-*.safetensors"))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	var offset uint64
+	for _, f := range files {
+		var t []llm.Tensor
+		var err error
+		t, offset, err = m.readTensors(f, offset, params)
+		if err != nil {
+			slog.Error("%v", err)
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		tensors = append(tensors, t...)
+	}
+	slog.Debug(fmt.Sprintf("all tensors = %d", len(tensors)))
+	return tensors, nil
+}
+
+func (m *SafetensorFormat) readTensors(fn string, offset uint64, params *Params) ([]llm.Tensor, uint64, error) {
+	f, err := os.Open(fn)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, 0, err
+	}
+	defer f.Close()
+
+	var jsonSize uint64
+	if err := binary.Read(f, binary.LittleEndian, &jsonSize); err != nil {
+		return nil, 0, err
+	}
+
+	buf := make([]byte, jsonSize)
+	_, err = io.ReadFull(f, buf)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, 0, err
+	}
+
+	d := json.NewDecoder(bytes.NewBuffer(buf))
+	d.UseNumber()
+	var parsed map[string]interface{}
+	if err = d.Decode(&parsed); err != nil {
+		return nil, 0, err
+	}
+
+	var keys []string
+	for k := range parsed {
+		keys = append(keys, k)
+	}
+
+	slices.Sort(keys)
+
+	slog.Info("converting layers")
+
+	var tensors []llm.Tensor
+	for _, k := range keys {
+		vals := parsed[k].(map[string]interface{})
+		var data tensorMetaData
+		if err = mapstructure.Decode(vals, &data); err != nil {
+			slog.Error("couldn't decode properly")
+			return nil, 0, err
+		}
+
+		slog.Debug(fmt.Sprintf("metadata = %#v", data))
+		var size uint64
+		var kind uint32
+		switch len(data.Shape) {
+		case 0:
+			// metadata
+			continue
+		case 1:
+			// convert to float32
+			kind = 0
+			size = uint64(data.Shape[0] * 4)
+		case 2:
+			// convert to float16
+			kind = 1
+			size = uint64(data.Shape[0] * data.Shape[1] * 2)
+		}
+
+		ggufName, err := m.GetLayerName(k)
+		if err != nil {
+			slog.Error("%v", err)
+			return nil, 0, err
+		}
+
+		shape := []uint64{0, 0, 0, 0}
+		for i := range data.Shape {
+			shape[i] = uint64(data.Shape[i])
+		}
+
+		t := llm.Tensor{
+			Name:   ggufName,
+			Kind:   kind,
+			Offset: offset,
+			Shape:  shape[:],
+		}
+
+		t.WriterTo = safetensorWriterTo{
+			t:        &t,
+			params:   params,
+			bo:       params.ByteOrder,
+			filename: fn,
+			start:    uint64(data.Offsets[0]),
+			end:      uint64(data.Offsets[1]),
+			padding:  8 + jsonSize,
+		}
+
+		tensors = append(tensors, t)
+		offset += size
+	}
+	slog.Debug(fmt.Sprintf("total tensors for file = %d", len(tensors)))
+	slog.Debug(fmt.Sprintf("offset = %d", offset))
+	return tensors, offset, nil
+}
+
+func (m *SafetensorFormat) GetParams(dirpath string) (*Params, error) {
+	f, err := os.Open(filepath.Join(dirpath, "config.json"))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer f.Close()
+
+	var params Params
+
+	d := json.NewDecoder(f)
+	err = d.Decode(&params)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	params.ByteOrder = binary.LittleEndian
+	return &params, nil
+}
+
+func (m *SafetensorFormat) GetLayerName(n string) (string, error) {
+	directMap := map[string]string{
+		"model.embed_tokens.weight": "token_embd.weight",
+		"lm_head.weight":            "output.weight",
+		"model.norm.weight":         "output_norm.weight",
+	}
+
+	tMap := map[string]string{
+		"model.layers.(\\d+).input_layernorm.weight":          "blk.$1.attn_norm.weight",
+		"model.layers.(\\d+).mlp.down_proj.weight":            "blk.$1.ffn_down.weight",
+		"model.layers.(\\d+).mlp.gate_proj.weight":            "blk.$1.ffn_gate.weight",
+		"model.layers.(\\d+).mlp.up_proj.weight":              "blk.$1.ffn_up.weight",
+		"model.layers.(\\d+).post_attention_layernorm.weight": "blk.$1.ffn_norm.weight",
+		"model.layers.(\\d+).self_attn.k_proj.weight":         "blk.$1.attn_k.weight",
+		"model.layers.(\\d+).self_attn.o_proj.weight":         "blk.$1.attn_output.weight",
+		"model.layers.(\\d+).self_attn.q_proj.weight":         "blk.$1.attn_q.weight",
+		"model.layers.(\\d+).self_attn.v_proj.weight":         "blk.$1.attn_v.weight",
+	}
+
+	v, ok := directMap[n]
+	if ok {
+		return v, nil
+	}
+
+	// quick hack to rename the layers to gguf format
+	for k, v := range tMap {
+		re := regexp.MustCompile(k)
+		newName := re.ReplaceAllString(n, v)
+		if newName != n {
+			return newName, nil
+		}
+	}
+
+	return "", fmt.Errorf("couldn't find a layer name for '%s'", n)
+}
+
+func (r safetensorWriterTo) WriteTo(w io.Writer) (n int64, err error) {
+	f, err := os.Open(r.filename)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	defer f.Close()
+
+	if _, err = f.Seek(int64(r.padding+r.start), 0); err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+
+	// use the handler if one is present
+	if r.handler != nil {
+		return 0, r.handler(w, r, f)
+	}
+
+	remaining := r.end - r.start
+
+	bufSize := uint64(10240)
+	var finished bool
+	for {
+		data := make([]byte, min(bufSize, remaining))
+
+		b, err := io.ReadFull(f, data)
+		remaining -= uint64(b)
+
+		if err == io.EOF || remaining <= 0 {
+			finished = true
+		} else if err != nil {
+			return 0, err
+		}
+
+		// convert bfloat16 -> ieee float32
+		tDataF32 := bfloat16.DecodeFloat32(data)
+
+		switch r.t.Kind {
+		case 0:
+			if err := binary.Write(w, r.bo, tDataF32); err != nil {
+				return 0, err
+			}
+		case 1:
+			// convert float32 -> float16
+			tempBuf := make([]uint16, len(data)/2)
+			for cnt, v := range tDataF32 {
+				tDataF16 := float16.Fromfloat32(v)
+				tempBuf[cnt] = uint16(tDataF16)
+			}
+			if err := binary.Write(w, r.bo, tempBuf); err != nil {
+				return 0, err
+			}
+		}
+		if finished {
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	return 0, nil
+}
+
+func (m *SafetensorFormat) GetModelArch(name, dirPath string, params *Params) (ModelArch, error) {
+	switch len(params.Architectures) {
+	case 0:
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("No architecture specified to convert")
+	case 1:
+		switch params.Architectures[0] {
+		case "MistralForCausalLM":
+			return &MistralModel{
+				ModelData{
+					Name:   name,
+					Path:   dirPath,
+					Params: params,
+					Format: m,
+				},
+			}, nil
+		case "GemmaForCausalLM":
+			return &GemmaModel{
+				ModelData{
+					Name:   name,
+					Path:   dirPath,
+					Params: params,
+					Format: m,
+				},
+			}, nil
+		default:
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("Models based on '%s' are not yet supported", params.Architectures[0])
+		}
+	}
+
+	return nil, fmt.Errorf("Unknown error")
+}
diff --git a/convert/torch.go b/convert/torch.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fd237505
--- /dev/null
+++ b/convert/torch.go
@@ -0,0 +1,286 @@
+package convert
+
+import (
+	"encoding/binary"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"log/slog"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/nlpodyssey/gopickle/pytorch"
+	"github.com/nlpodyssey/gopickle/types"
+	"github.com/x448/float16"
+
+	"github.com/ollama/ollama/llm"
+)
+
+type torchWriterTo struct {
+	t *llm.Tensor
+
+	params *Params
+	bo     ByteOrder
+
+	storage pytorch.StorageInterface
+	handler func(w io.Writer, r torchWriterTo) error
+}
+
+type TorchFormat struct{}
+
+func (tf *TorchFormat) GetTensors(dirpath string, params *Params) ([]llm.Tensor, error) {
+	slog.Debug("getting torch tensors")
+
+	files, err := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(dirpath, "pytorch_model-*.bin"))
+	if err != nil {
+		slog.Error("didn't find any torch files")
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	var offset uint64
+
+	var tensors []llm.Tensor
+	for _, fn := range files {
+		m, err := pytorch.Load(fn)
+		if err != nil {
+			slog.Error(fmt.Sprintf("error unpickling: %q", err))
+			return []llm.Tensor{}, err
+		}
+
+		for _, k := range m.(*types.Dict).Keys() {
+			if strings.HasSuffix(k.(string), "self_attn.rotary_emb.inv_freq") {
+				continue
+			}
+
+			t, _ := m.(*types.Dict).Get(k)
+			tshape := t.(*pytorch.Tensor).Size
+
+			var size uint64
+			var kind uint32
+			switch len(tshape) {
+			case 0:
+				continue
+			case 1:
+				// convert to float32
+				kind = 0
+				size = uint64(tshape[0] * 4)
+			case 2:
+				// convert to float16
+				kind = 1
+				size = uint64(tshape[0] * tshape[1] * 2)
+			}
+
+			ggufName, err := tf.GetLayerName(k.(string))
+			if err != nil {
+				slog.Error("%v", err)
+				return nil, err
+			}
+			slog.Debug(fmt.Sprintf("finding name for '%s' -> '%s'", k.(string), ggufName))
+
+			shape := []uint64{0, 0, 0, 0}
+			for i := range tshape {
+				shape[i] = uint64(tshape[i])
+			}
+
+			tensor := llm.Tensor{
+				Name:   ggufName,
+				Kind:   kind,
+				Offset: offset, // calculate the offset
+				Shape:  shape[:],
+			}
+
+			tensor.WriterTo = torchWriterTo{
+				t:       &tensor,
+				params:  params,
+				bo:      params.ByteOrder,
+				storage: t.(*pytorch.Tensor).Source,
+			}
+
+			tensors = append(tensors, tensor)
+			offset += size
+		}
+	}
+
+	return tensors, nil
+
+}
+
+func getAltParams(dirpath string) (*Params, error) {
+	f, err := os.Open(filepath.Join(dirpath, "params.json"))
+	if err != nil {
+		slog.Error("no params.json")
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer f.Close()
+
+	type TorchParams struct {
+		HiddenSize     int     `json:"dim"`
+		AttentionHeads int     `json:"n_heads"`
+		KeyValHeads    int     `json:"n_kv_heads"`
+		HiddenLayers   int     `json:"n_layers"`
+		RopeTheta      int     `json:"rope_theta"`
+		NormEPS        float64 `json:"norm_eps"`
+	}
+
+	var tparams TorchParams
+
+	d := json.NewDecoder(f)
+	err = d.Decode(&tparams)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	params := &Params{
+		HiddenSize:     tparams.HiddenSize,
+		AttentionHeads: tparams.AttentionHeads,
+		KeyValHeads:    tparams.KeyValHeads,
+		HiddenLayers:   tparams.HiddenLayers,
+		NormEPS:        tparams.NormEPS,
+	}
+
+	switch {
+	case tparams.RopeTheta == 1000000:
+		// Codellama
+		params.ContextSize = 16384
+	case tparams.NormEPS == 1e-06:
+		// llama2
+		slog.Debug("Found llama2 - setting context size to 4096")
+		params.ContextSize = 4096
+	default:
+		params.ContextSize = 2048
+	}
+
+	params.ByteOrder = binary.LittleEndian
+	return params, nil
+}
+
+func (m *TorchFormat) GetParams(dirpath string) (*Params, error) {
+	f, err := os.Open(filepath.Join(dirpath, "config.json"))
+	if err != nil {
+		if os.IsNotExist(err) {
+			// try params.json instead
+			return getAltParams(dirpath)
+		} else {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
+
+	var params Params
+	d := json.NewDecoder(f)
+	err = d.Decode(&params)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	params.ByteOrder = binary.LittleEndian
+	return &params, nil
+}
+
+func (m *TorchFormat) GetLayerName(n string) (string, error) {
+	directMap := map[string]string{
+		"tok_embeddings.weight":     "token_embd.weight",
+		"output.weight":             "output.weight",
+		"norm.weight":               "output_norm.weight",
+		"rope.freqs":                "rope_freqs.weight",
+		"model.embed_tokens.weight": "token_embd.weight",
+		"lm_head.weight":            "output.weight",
+		"model.norm.weight":         "output_norm.weight",
+	}
+
+	lMap := map[string]string{
+		"layers.(\\d+).attention_norm.weight":                 "blk.$1.attn_norm.weight",
+		"layers.(\\d+).attention_output_norm.weight":          "blk.$1.attn_norm.weight",
+		"layers.(\\d+).feed_forward.w2.weight":                "blk.$1.ffn_down.weight",
+		"layers.(\\d+).feed_forward.w1.weight":                "blk.$1.ffn_gate.weight",
+		"layers.(\\d+).feed_forward.w3.weight":                "blk.$1.ffn_up.weight",
+		"layers.(\\d+).ffn_norm.weight":                       "blk.$1.ffn_norm.weight",
+		"layers.(\\d+).attention.wk.weight":                   "blk.$1.attn_k.weight",
+		"layers.(\\d+).attention.wo.weight":                   "blk.$1.attn_output.weight",
+		"layers.(\\d+).attention.wq.weight":                   "blk.$1.attn_q.weight",
+		"layers.(\\d+).attention.wv.weight":                   "blk.$1.attn_v.weight",
+		"model.layers.(\\d+).input_layernorm.weight":          "blk.$1.attn_norm.weight",
+		"model.layers.(\\d+).mlp.down_proj.weight":            "blk.$1.ffn_down.weight",
+		"model.layers.(\\d+).mlp.gate_proj.weight":            "blk.$1.ffn_gate.weight",
+		"model.layers.(\\d+).mlp.up_proj.weight":              "blk.$1.ffn_up.weight",
+		"model.layers.(\\d+).post_attention_layernorm.weight": "blk.$1.ffn_norm.weight",
+		"model.layers.(\\d+).self_attn.k_proj.weight":         "blk.$1.attn_k.weight",
+		"model.layers.(\\d+).self_attn.o_proj.weight":         "blk.$1.attn_output.weight",
+		"model.layers.(\\d+).self_attn.q_proj.weight":         "blk.$1.attn_q.weight",
+		"model.layers.(\\d+).self_attn.v_proj.weight":         "blk.$1.attn_v.weight",
+	}
+
+	v, ok := directMap[n]
+	if ok {
+		return v, nil
+	}
+
+	// quick hack to rename the layers to gguf format
+	for k, v := range lMap {
+		re := regexp.MustCompile(k)
+		newName := re.ReplaceAllString(n, v)
+		if newName != n {
+			return newName, nil
+		}
+	}
+
+	return "", fmt.Errorf("couldn't find a layer name for '%s'", n)
+}
+
+func (r torchWriterTo) WriteTo(w io.Writer) (n int64, err error) {
+	// use the handler if one is present
+	if r.handler != nil {
+		return 0, r.handler(w, r)
+	}
+
+	switch r.storage.(type) {
+	case *pytorch.FloatStorage:
+		slog.Warn(fmt.Sprintf("unexpected storage found for layer '%s'; skipping", r.t.Name))
+		return 0, nil
+	case *pytorch.HalfStorage:
+		switch r.t.Kind {
+		case 0:
+			data := r.storage.(*pytorch.HalfStorage).Data
+			slog.Debug(fmt.Sprintf("%35s F32 (%d)", r.t.Name, len(data)))
+			if err := binary.Write(w, r.bo, data); err != nil {
+				return 0, err
+			}
+		case 1:
+			data := r.storage.(*pytorch.HalfStorage).Data
+			tData := make([]uint16, len(data))
+			for cnt, v := range data {
+				tData[cnt] = uint16(float16.Fromfloat32(v))
+			}
+			slog.Debug(fmt.Sprintf("%35s F16 (%d)", r.t.Name, len(tData)))
+			if err := binary.Write(w, r.bo, tData); err != nil {
+				return 0, err
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	return 0, nil
+}
+
+func (m *TorchFormat) GetModelArch(name, dirPath string, params *Params) (ModelArch, error) {
+	switch len(params.Architectures) {
+	case 0:
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("No architecture specified to convert")
+	case 1:
+		switch params.Architectures[0] {
+		case "LlamaForCausalLM":
+			return &LlamaModel{
+				ModelData{
+					Name:   name,
+					Path:   dirPath,
+					Params: params,
+					Format: m,
+				},
+			}, nil
+		default:
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("Models based on '%s' are not yet supported", params.Architectures[0])
+		}
+	}
+
+	return nil, fmt.Errorf("Unknown error")
+}
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 4047c2d7..4325d58d 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@ require (
 	golang.org/x/sync v0.3.0
 )
 
-require github.com/pdevine/tensor v0.0.0-20240228013915-64ccaa8d9ca9
+require (
+	github.com/nlpodyssey/gopickle v0.3.0
+	github.com/pdevine/tensor v0.0.0-20240228013915-64ccaa8d9ca9
+)
 
 require (
 	github.com/apache/arrow/go/arrow v0.0.0-20201229220542-30ce2eb5d4dc // indirect
@@ -68,7 +71,7 @@ require (
 	golang.org/x/net v0.17.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.13.0
 	golang.org/x/term v0.13.0
-	golang.org/x/text v0.13.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/text v0.14.0 // indirect
 	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.30.0
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 // indirect
 )
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index d1a75b56..16de9170 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ github.com/modern-go/concurrent v0.0.0-20180306012644-bacd9c7ef1dd h1:TRLaZ9cD/w
 github.com/modern-go/concurrent v0.0.0-20180306012644-bacd9c7ef1dd/go.mod h1:6dJC0mAP4ikYIbvyc7fijjWJddQyLn8Ig3JB5CqoB9Q=
 github.com/modern-go/reflect2 v1.0.2 h1:xBagoLtFs94CBntxluKeaWgTMpvLxC4ur3nMaC9Gz0M=
 github.com/modern-go/reflect2 v1.0.2/go.mod h1:yWuevngMOJpCy52FWWMvUC8ws7m/LJsjYzDa0/r8luk=
+github.com/nlpodyssey/gopickle v0.3.0 h1:BLUE5gxFLyyNOPzlXxt6GoHEMMxD0qhsE4p0CIQyoLw=
+github.com/nlpodyssey/gopickle v0.3.0/go.mod h1:f070HJ/yR+eLi5WmM1OXJEGaTpuJEUiib19olXgYha0=
 github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter v0.0.5 h1:P2Ga83D34wi1o9J6Wh1mRuqd4mF/x/lgBS7N7AbDhec=
 github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter v0.0.5/go.mod h1:hPp6KlRPjbx+hW8ykQs1w3UBbZlj6HuIJcUGPhkA7kY=
 github.com/pdevine/tensor v0.0.0-20240228013915-64ccaa8d9ca9 h1:DV4iXjNn6fGeDl1AkZ1I0QB/0DBjrc7kPpxHrmuDzW4=
@@ -236,8 +238,8 @@ golang.org/x/term v0.13.0/go.mod h1:LTmsnFJwVN6bCy1rVCoS+qHT1HhALEFxKncY3WNNh4U=
 golang.org/x/text v0.3.0/go.mod h1:NqM8EUOU14njkJ3fqMW+pc6Ldnwhi/IjpwHt7yyuwOQ=
 golang.org/x/text v0.3.3/go.mod h1:5Zoc/QRtKVWzQhOtBMvqHzDpF6irO9z98xDceosuGiQ=
 golang.org/x/text v0.3.6/go.mod h1:5Zoc/QRtKVWzQhOtBMvqHzDpF6irO9z98xDceosuGiQ=
-golang.org/x/text v0.13.0 h1:ablQoSUd0tRdKxZewP80B+BaqeKJuVhuRxj/dkrun3k=
-golang.org/x/text v0.13.0/go.mod h1:TvPlkZtksWOMsz7fbANvkp4WM8x/WCo/om8BMLbz+aE=
+golang.org/x/text v0.14.0 h1:ScX5w1eTa3QqT8oi6+ziP7dTV1S2+ALU0bI+0zXKWiQ=
+golang.org/x/text v0.14.0/go.mod h1:18ZOQIKpY8NJVqYksKHtTdi31H5itFRjB5/qKTNYzSU=
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diff --git a/llm/gguf.go b/llm/gguf.go
index 796642e3..d49847e3 100644
--- a/llm/gguf.go
+++ b/llm/gguf.go
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"strings"
+
+	"log/slog"
 )
 
 type containerGGUF struct {
@@ -52,6 +54,7 @@ func (c *containerGGUF) Decode(rs io.ReadSeeker) (model, error) {
 	}
 
 	model := newGGUF(c)
+	slog.Debug(fmt.Sprintf("model = %#v", model))
 	if err := model.Decode(rs); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -187,6 +190,8 @@ func (llm *gguf) Decode(rs io.ReadSeeker) error {
 		llm.kv[k] = v
 	}
 
+	slog.Debug(fmt.Sprintf("general.architecture = %s", llm.kv["general.architecture"]))
+
 	// decode tensors
 	for i := 0; uint64(i) < llm.numTensor(); i++ {
 		name, err := readGGUFString(llm, rs)
@@ -451,6 +456,7 @@ var ggufKVOrder = map[string][]string{
 	"llama": {
 		"general.architecture",
 		"general.name",
+		"llama.vocab_size",
 		"llama.context_length",
 		"llama.embedding_length",
 		"llama.block_count",
@@ -509,11 +515,17 @@ func (llm *gguf) Encode(ws io.WriteSeeker, kv KV, tensors []Tensor) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
+	kvCheck := make(map[string]bool)
+	for k := range kv {
+		kvCheck[k] = false
+	}
+
 	for _, k := range ggufKVOrder["llama"] {
 		v, ok := kv[k]
 		if !ok {
 			continue
 		}
+		kvCheck[k] = true
 
 		if err := binary.Write(ws, llm.ByteOrder, uint64(len(k))); err != nil {
 			return err
@@ -567,6 +579,12 @@ func (llm *gguf) Encode(ws io.WriteSeeker, kv KV, tensors []Tensor) error {
 		}
 	}
 
+	for k, v := range kvCheck {
+		if !v {
+			return fmt.Errorf("Didn't know how to write kv %s", k)
+		}
+	}
+
 	for _, tensor := range tensors {
 		if err := binary.Write(ws, llm.ByteOrder, uint64(len(tensor.Name))); err != nil {
 			return err
diff --git a/server/images.go b/server/images.go
index 0da51b85..74fa1a5e 100644
--- a/server/images.go
+++ b/server/images.go
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ func CreateModel(ctx context.Context, name, modelFileDir, quantization string, c
 
 			pathName := realpath(modelFileDir, c.Args)
 
-			ggufName, err := convertSafetensors(name, pathName, fn)
+			ggufName, err := convertModel(name, pathName, fn)
 			if err != nil {
 				var pathErr *fs.PathError
 				switch {
@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ func CreateModel(ctx context.Context, name, modelFileDir, quantization string, c
 	return nil
 }
 
-func convertSafetensors(name, path string, fn func(resp api.ProgressResponse)) (string, error) {
+func convertModel(name, path string, fn func(resp api.ProgressResponse)) (string, error) {
 	r, err := zip.OpenReader(path)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
@@ -668,17 +668,22 @@ func convertSafetensors(name, path string, fn func(resp api.ProgressResponse)) (
 		rc.Close()
 	}
 
-	params, err := convert.GetParams(tempDir)
+	mf, err := convert.GetModelFormat(tempDir)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
 
-	mArch, err := convert.GetModelArchFromParams(name, tempDir, params)
+	params, err := mf.GetParams(tempDir)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
 
-	fn(api.ProgressResponse{Status: "processing safetensors"})
+	mArch, err := mf.GetModelArch(name, tempDir, params)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+
+	fn(api.ProgressResponse{Status: "processing tensors"})
 	if err := mArch.GetTensors(); err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}