diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/llama/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/llama/main.rs
index c2ed0e25..46f474bb 100644
--- a/candle-examples/examples/llama/main.rs
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/llama/main.rs
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ enum Which {
     V2,
     #[value(name = "solar-10.7b")]
     Solar10_7B,
+    #[value(name = "tiny-llama-1.1b-chat")]
+    TinyLlama1_1BChat,
 }
 
 #[derive(Parser, Debug)]
@@ -124,6 +126,7 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
             Which::V1 => "Narsil/amall-7b".to_string(),
             Which::V2 => "meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf".to_string(),
             Which::Solar10_7B => "upstage/SOLAR-10.7B-v1.0".to_string(),
+            Which::TinyLlama1_1BChat => "TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0".to_string(),
         });
         println!("loading the model weights from {model_id}");
         let revision = args.revision.unwrap_or("main".to_string());
@@ -134,8 +137,12 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
         let config: LlamaConfig = serde_json::from_slice(&std::fs::read(config_filename)?)?;
         let config = config.into_config(args.use_flash_attn);
 
-        let filenames =
-            candle_examples::hub_load_safetensors(&api, "model.safetensors.index.json")?;
+        let filenames = match args.which {
+            Which::V1 | Which::V2 | Which::Solar10_7B => {
+                candle_examples::hub_load_safetensors(&api, "model.safetensors.index.json")?
+            }
+            Which::TinyLlama1_1BChat => vec![api.get("model.safetensors")?],
+        };
         println!("building the model");
         let cache = model::Cache::new(!args.no_kv_cache, dtype, &config, &device)?;