diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/moondream/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/moondream/main.rs
index 3e0f6d574..008346f04 100644
--- a/candle-examples/examples/moondream/main.rs
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/moondream/main.rs
@@ -9,11 +9,19 @@ use clap::Parser;
 
 use candle::{DType, Device, Tensor};
 use candle_nn::VarBuilder;
-use candle_transformers::{generation::LogitsProcessor, models::moondream};
+use candle_transformers::{
+    generation::LogitsProcessor,
+    models::{moondream, quantized_moondream},
+};
 use tokenizers::Tokenizer;
 
+enum Model {
+    Moondream(moondream::Model),
+    Quantized(quantized_moondream::Model),
+}
+
 struct TextGeneration {
-    model: moondream::Model,
+    model: Model,
     device: Device,
     tokenizer: Tokenizer,
     logits_processor: LogitsProcessor,
@@ -25,7 +33,7 @@ struct TextGeneration {
 impl TextGeneration {
     #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
     fn new(
-        model: moondream::Model,
+        model: Model,
         tokenizer: Tokenizer,
         seed: u64,
         temp: Option<f64>,
@@ -64,6 +72,14 @@ impl TextGeneration {
         let mut tokens = tokens.get_ids().to_vec();
         let mut generated_tokens = 0usize;
 
+        // Moondream tokenizer bos_token is "<|endoftext|>"
+        // https://huggingface.co/vikhyatk/moondream2/blob/main/special_tokens_map.json
+        let bos_token = match self.tokenizer.get_vocab(true).get("<|endoftext|>") {
+            Some(token) => *token,
+            None => anyhow::bail!("cannot find the BOS token"),
+        };
+        // eos_token is "END"
+        // https://github.com/vikhyat/moondream/blob/a9d788a20d1543fb1479edc54106e88cff7759d3/moondream/moondream.py#L100
         let eos_token = match self.tokenizer.get_vocab(true).get("END") {
             Some(token) => *token,
             None => anyhow::bail!("cannot find the EOS token"),
@@ -75,11 +91,24 @@ impl TextGeneration {
             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)?
+                match self.model {
+                    Model::Moondream(ref mut model) => model.text_model.forward(&input)?,
+                    Model::Quantized(ref mut model) => model.text_model.forward(&input)?,
+                }
             } else {
-                self.model
-                    .text_model
-                    .forward_with_img(&input, image_embeds)?
+                let bos_token = Tensor::new(&[bos_token], &self.device)?.unsqueeze(0)?;
+                match self.model {
+                    Model::Moondream(ref mut model) => {
+                        model
+                            .text_model
+                            .forward_with_img(&bos_token, &input, image_embeds)?
+                    }
+                    Model::Quantized(ref mut model) => {
+                        model
+                            .text_model
+                            .forward_with_img(&bos_token, &input, image_embeds)?
+                    }
+                }
             };
             let logits = logits.squeeze(0)?.to_dtype(DType::F32)?;
             let logits = if self.repeat_penalty == 1. {
@@ -142,7 +171,7 @@ struct Args {
     top_p: Option<f64>,
 
     /// The seed to use when generating random samples.
-    #[arg(long, default_value_t = 299792458)]
+    #[arg(long, default_value_t = 0)]
     seed: u64,
 
     #[arg(long, default_value_t = 5000)]
@@ -156,12 +185,15 @@ struct Args {
     #[arg(long, default_value_t = 64)]
     repeat_last_n: usize,
 
-    #[arg(long, default_value = "vikhyatk/moondream2")]
-    model_id: String,
+    #[arg(long)]
+    model_id: Option<String>,
 
     #[arg(long, default_value = "main")]
     revision: String,
 
+    #[arg(long)]
+    quantized: bool,
+
     #[arg(long)]
     model_file: Option<String>,
 
@@ -216,14 +248,30 @@ async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
 
     let start = std::time::Instant::now();
     let api = hf_hub::api::tokio::Api::new()?;
+    let model_id = match args.model_id {
+        Some(model_id) => model_id.to_string(),
+        None => {
+            if args.quantized {
+                "santiagomed/candle-moondream".to_string()
+            } else {
+                "vikhyatk/moondream2".to_string()
+            }
+        }
+    };
     let repo = api.repo(hf_hub::Repo::with_revision(
-        args.model_id,
+        model_id,
         hf_hub::RepoType::Model,
         args.revision,
     ));
     let model_file = match args.model_file {
         Some(m) => m.into(),
-        None => repo.get("model.safetensors").await?,
+        None => {
+            if args.quantized {
+                repo.get("model-q4_0.gguf").await?
+            } else {
+                repo.get("model.safetensors").await?
+            }
+        }
     };
     let tokenizer = match args.tokenizer_file {
         Some(m) => m.into(),
@@ -234,22 +282,35 @@ async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
 
     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)?;
+    let model = if args.quantized {
+        let vb = candle_transformers::quantized_var_builder::VarBuilder::from_gguf(
+            &model_file,
+            &device,
+        )?;
+        let model = quantized_moondream::Model::new(&config, vb)?;
+        Model::Quantized(model)
+    } else {
+        let vb =
+            unsafe { VarBuilder::from_mmaped_safetensors(&[model_file], DType::F32, &device)? };
+        let model = moondream::Model::new(&config, vb)?;
+        Model::Moondream(model)
+    };
     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())?;
+    let image_embeds = match model {
+        Model::Moondream(ref m) => image_embeds.apply(m.vision_encoder())?,
+        Model::Quantized(ref m) => image_embeds.apply(m.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,
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/mixformer.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/mixformer.rs
index edca8b9d7..65a1665a6 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/mixformer.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/mixformer.rs
@@ -438,16 +438,20 @@ 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> {
+    pub fn forward_with_img(
+        &mut self,
+        bos_token: &Tensor,
+        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 bos_token = bos_token.apply(&self.embedding)?;
+        // Python implementation sequence order is <bos token embedding><img embedding><rest of text embedding>
+        // https://github.com/vikhyat/moondream/blob/a9d788a20d1543fb1479edc54106e88cff7759d3/moondream/moondream.py#L43-L56
+        let mut xs = Tensor::cat(&[bos_token, 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())?)
-        };
+        let mask = Some(get_mask(seq_len, xs.device())?);
         for block in self.blocks.iter_mut() {
             xs = block.forward(&xs, mask.as_ref())?
         }
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs
index ed0e0de71..3514e648c 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ pub mod quantized_llama2_c;
 pub mod quantized_metavoice;
 pub mod quantized_mistral;
 pub mod quantized_mixformer;
+pub mod quantized_moondream;
 pub mod quantized_mpt;
 pub mod quantized_rwkv_v5;
 pub mod quantized_rwkv_v6;
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/moondream.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/moondream.rs
index c36052c67..42b24fb82 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/moondream.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/moondream.rs
@@ -25,15 +25,15 @@ fn scaled_dot_product_attention(q: &Tensor, k: &Tensor, v: &Tensor) -> Result<Te
 
 #[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,
+    pub(crate) image_embedding_dim: usize,
+    pub(crate) model_dim: usize,
+    pub(crate) hidden_dim: usize,
+    pub(crate) hidden_features: usize,
+    pub(crate) embed_len: usize,
+    pub(crate) embed_dim: usize,
+    pub(crate) num_blocks: usize,
+    pub(crate) num_heads: usize,
+    pub(crate) act: candle_nn::Activation,
 }
 
 impl VisionConfig {
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/quantized_mixformer.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/quantized_mixformer.rs
index 882f4cf8f..fa72672a9 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/quantized_mixformer.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/quantized_mixformer.rs
@@ -337,6 +337,30 @@ impl MixFormerSequentialForCausalLM {
         xs.narrow(1, seq_len - 1, 1)?.apply(&self.head)?.squeeze(1)
     }
 
+    pub fn forward_with_img(
+        &mut self,
+        bos_token: &Tensor,
+        xs: &Tensor,
+        img_embeds: &Tensor,
+    ) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let _enter = self.span.enter();
+        let xs = xs.apply(&self.embedding)?;
+        let bos_token = bos_token.apply(&self.embedding)?;
+        // Python implementation sequence order is <bos token embedding><img embedding><rest of text embedding>
+        // https://github.com/vikhyat/moondream/blob/a9d788a20d1543fb1479edc54106e88cff7759d3/moondream/moondream.py#L43-L56
+        let mut xs = Tensor::cat(&[bos_token, img_embeds.clone(), xs], 1)?;
+        let (_b_size, seq_len, _embds) = xs.dims3()?;
+        let mask = 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/quantized_moondream.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/quantized_moondream.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1b125d930
--- /dev/null
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/quantized_moondream.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,271 @@
+use crate::models::moondream::{Config, VisionConfig};
+use crate::models::quantized_mixformer::MixFormerSequentialForCausalLM as PhiModel;
+use crate::quantized_nn::{layer_norm, linear_b, Linear};
+use crate::quantized_var_builder::VarBuilder;
+use candle::{IndexOp, Module, Result, Tensor, D};
+
+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 attn_weights = (q.matmul(&k.t()?)? * scale_factor)?;
+    candle_nn::ops::softmax_last_dim(&attn_weights)?.matmul(v)
+}
+
+#[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)?.contiguous()?,
+            qkv.i(1)?.contiguous()?,
+            qkv.i(2)?.contiguous()?,
+        );
+        scaled_dot_product_attention(&q, &k, &v)?
+            .transpose(1, 2)?
+            .reshape((b, n, c))?
+            .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")?
+            .dequantize(vb.device())?;
+        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;
+        xs.reshape((b, c, h, p1, h, p2))?
+            .permute((0, 2, 4, 1, 3, 5))?
+            .reshape((b, h * w, c * p1 * p2))?
+            .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
+    }
+}