diff --git a/src/checkpoint.zig b/src/checkpoint.zig
index 9b4b8f8..897d325 100644
--- a/src/checkpoint.zig
+++ b/src/checkpoint.zig
@@ -30,6 +30,19 @@ weights: struct {
 },
 
 pub fn init(allocator: std.mem.Allocator, model_path: []const u8) !Self {
+    const v1_path = try std.fs.path.join(
+        allocator,
+        &[_][]const u8{ model_path, "checkpoint_v1.bin" },
+    );
+
+    defer allocator.free(v1_path);
+
+    const v1_file = std.fs.cwd().openFile(v1_path, .{}) catch null;
+
+    defer if (v1_file) |file| file.close();
+
+    if (v1_file) |file| return try readV1(allocator, file);
+
     const legacy_path = try std.fs.path.join(
         allocator,
         &[_][]const u8{ model_path, "checkpoint_legacy.bin" },
@@ -46,6 +59,162 @@ pub fn init(allocator: std.mem.Allocator, model_path: []const u8) !Self {
     return error.CheckpointFileNotFound;
 }
 
+// https://github.com/karpathy/llama2.c/blob/d9862069e7ef665fe6309e3c17398ded2f121bf5/export.py#L132
+pub fn readV1(allocator: std.mem.Allocator, file: std.fs.File) !Self {
+    const magic: [*]const u8 = @ptrCast(&try file.reader().readIntLittle(u32));
+
+    if (!std.mem.eql(u8, magic[0..4], "ak42")) {
+        return error.InvalidMagic;
+    }
+
+    const version = try file.reader().readIntLittle(i32);
+
+    if (version != 1) {
+        return error.InvalidVersion;
+    }
+
+    const embedding_size: usize = @intCast(try file.reader().readIntLittle(i32));
+    const ffn_hidden_size: usize = @intCast(try file.reader().readIntLittle(i32));
+    const n_layers: usize = @intCast(try file.reader().readIntLittle(i32));
+    const n_attention_heads: usize = @intCast(try file.reader().readIntLittle(i32));
+    const n_attention_query_groups: usize = @intCast(try file.reader().readIntLittle(i32));
+    const vocab_size: usize = @intCast(try file.reader().readIntLittle(i32));
+    const max_sequence_length: usize = @intCast(try file.reader().readIntLittle(i32));
+    const shared_output_matrix = try file.reader().readIntLittle(u8) == 1;
+
+    try file.seekTo(256);
+
+    const attention_norm_vectors = try Tensor(2).init(
+        allocator,
+        [_]usize{ n_layers, embedding_size },
+    );
+
+    errdefer attention_norm_vectors.deinit();
+    try attention_norm_vectors.read(file);
+
+    const ffn_norm_vectors = try Tensor(2).init(
+        allocator,
+        [_]usize{ n_layers, embedding_size },
+    );
+
+    errdefer ffn_norm_vectors.deinit();
+    try ffn_norm_vectors.read(file);
+
+    const output_norm_vector = try Tensor(1).init(
+        allocator,
+        [_]usize{embedding_size},
+    );
+
+    errdefer output_norm_vector.deinit();
+    try output_norm_vector.read(file);
+
+    const token_embedding_vectors = try Tensor(2).init(
+        allocator,
+        [_]usize{ vocab_size, embedding_size },
+    );
+
+    errdefer token_embedding_vectors.deinit();
+    try token_embedding_vectors.read(file);
+
+    const attention_query_matrices = try Tensor(3).init(
+        allocator,
+        [_]usize{ n_layers, embedding_size, embedding_size },
+    );
+
+    errdefer attention_query_matrices.deinit();
+    try attention_query_matrices.read(file);
+
+    const attention_head_size: usize = embedding_size / n_attention_heads;
+
+    const attention_key_matrices = try Tensor(3).init(
+        allocator,
+        [_]usize{ n_layers, n_attention_query_groups * attention_head_size, embedding_size },
+    );
+
+    errdefer attention_key_matrices.deinit();
+    try attention_key_matrices.read(file);
+
+    const attention_value_matrices = try Tensor(3).init(
+        allocator,
+        [_]usize{ n_layers, n_attention_query_groups * attention_head_size, embedding_size },
+    );
+
+    errdefer attention_value_matrices.deinit();
+    try attention_value_matrices.read(file);
+
+    const attention_output_matrices = try Tensor(3).init(
+        allocator,
+        [_]usize{ n_layers, embedding_size, embedding_size },
+    );
+
+    errdefer attention_output_matrices.deinit();
+    try attention_output_matrices.read(file);
+
+    const ffn_gate_matrices = try Tensor(3).init(
+        allocator,
+        [_]usize{ n_layers, ffn_hidden_size, embedding_size },
+    );
+
+    errdefer ffn_gate_matrices.deinit();
+    try ffn_gate_matrices.read(file);
+
+    const ffn_down_matrices = try Tensor(3).init(
+        allocator,
+        [_]usize{ n_layers, embedding_size, ffn_hidden_size },
+    );
+
+    errdefer ffn_down_matrices.deinit();
+    try ffn_down_matrices.read(file);
+
+    const ffn_up_matrices = try Tensor(3).init(
+        allocator,
+        [_]usize{ n_layers, ffn_hidden_size, embedding_size },
+    );
+
+    errdefer ffn_up_matrices.deinit();
+    try ffn_up_matrices.read(file);
+
+    const output_matrix = if (shared_output_matrix)
+        token_embedding_vectors
+    else
+        try Tensor(2).init(allocator, [_]usize{ vocab_size, embedding_size });
+
+    errdefer if (!shared_output_matrix) {
+        output_matrix.deinit();
+    };
+
+    if (!shared_output_matrix) {
+        try output_matrix.read(file);
+    }
+
+    return Self{
+        .allocator = allocator,
+        .embedding_size = embedding_size,
+        .ffn_hidden_size = ffn_hidden_size,
+        .n_layers = n_layers,
+        .n_attention_heads = n_attention_heads,
+        .n_attention_query_groups = n_attention_query_groups,
+        .vocab_size = vocab_size,
+        .max_sequence_length = max_sequence_length,
+        .shared_output_matrix = shared_output_matrix,
+
+        .weights = .{
+            .token_embedding_vectors = token_embedding_vectors,
+            .attention_norm_vectors = attention_norm_vectors,
+            .attention_query_matrices = attention_query_matrices,
+            .attention_key_matrices = attention_key_matrices,
+            .attention_value_matrices = attention_value_matrices,
+            .attention_output_matrices = attention_output_matrices,
+            .ffn_norm_vectors = ffn_norm_vectors,
+            .ffn_gate_matrices = ffn_gate_matrices,
+            .ffn_down_matrices = ffn_down_matrices,
+            .ffn_up_matrices = ffn_up_matrices,
+            .output_norm_vector = output_norm_vector,
+            .output_matrix = output_matrix,
+        },
+    };
+}
+
 pub fn readLegacy(allocator: std.mem.Allocator, file: std.fs.File) !Self {
     const embedding_size: usize = @intCast(try file.reader().readIntLittle(i32));
     const ffn_hidden_size: usize = @intCast(try file.reader().readIntLittle(i32));