diff --git a/model/models/deepseek2/model.go b/model/models/deepseek2/model.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7b88711ba1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/model/models/deepseek2/model.go
@@ -0,0 +1,324 @@
+package deepseek2
+
+// uses deepseek 2 architecture but written based on deepseek 3 model
+
+import (
+	"math"
+
+	"github.com/ollama/ollama/fs"
+	"github.com/ollama/ollama/kvcache"
+	"github.com/ollama/ollama/ml"
+	"github.com/ollama/ollama/ml/nn"
+	"github.com/ollama/ollama/ml/nn/fast"
+	"github.com/ollama/ollama/ml/nn/rope"
+	"github.com/ollama/ollama/model"
+	"github.com/ollama/ollama/model/input"
+)
+
+type Options struct {
+	numExpertsUsed      int
+	numExperts          int
+	normTopKProb        bool
+	routedScalingFactor float32
+
+	kvLoraRank,
+	qkNopeHeadDim,
+	qkRopeHeadDim,
+	kqNopeHeadDim,
+	qkHeadDim int
+	qLoraRank int
+	vHeadDim  int
+
+	hiddenSize,
+	numHeads,
+	numKVHeads,
+	keyLength,
+	valueLength,
+	originalContextLength int
+
+	eps,
+	ropeBase,
+	ropeScale float32
+	kqScale float64
+}
+
+func (o Options) RoPEOptions() []func(*rope.Options) {
+	attnFactor := float32(1.0 / (1.0 + 0.1*math.Log(float64(o.ropeScale))))
+	return []func(*rope.Options){
+		rope.WithOriginalContextLength(o.originalContextLength),
+		rope.WithExtrapolationFactor(1.),
+		rope.WithAttentionFactor(attnFactor),
+	}
+}
+
+type Attention struct {
+	Q *nn.Linear `gguf:"attn_q"`
+
+	QA     *nn.Linear  `gguf:"attn_q_a"`
+	QANorm *nn.RMSNorm `gguf:"attn_q_a_norm"`
+	QB     *nn.Linear  `gguf:"attn_q_b"`
+
+	KVA     *nn.Linear  `gguf:"attn_kv_a_mqa"`
+	KVANorm *nn.RMSNorm `gguf:"attn_kv_a_norm"`
+	KVB     *nn.Linear  `gguf:"attn_kv_b"`
+
+	Output *nn.Linear `gguf:"attn_out,alt:attn_output"`
+}
+
+func (attn *Attention) Forward(ctx ml.Context, hiddenStates, positions ml.Tensor, cache kvcache.Cache, opts *Options) ml.Tensor {
+	seqLength := hiddenStates.Dim(1)
+
+	var query ml.Tensor
+	if opts.qLoraRank == 0 { // nil {
+		query = attn.Q.Forward(ctx, hiddenStates)
+	} else {
+		query = attn.QA.Forward(ctx, hiddenStates)
+		query = attn.QANorm.Forward(ctx, query, opts.eps)
+		query = attn.QB.Forward(ctx, query)
+	}
+
+	query = query.Reshape(ctx, query.Dim(0)/opts.numHeads, opts.numHeads, seqLength)
+
+	qPass := query.View(ctx, 0,
+		opts.qkNopeHeadDim, query.Stride(1),
+		query.Dim(1), query.Stride(2),
+		query.Dim(2))
+
+	qRot := query.View(ctx, opts.qkNopeHeadDim*query.Stride(0),
+		opts.qkRopeHeadDim, query.Stride(1),
+		query.Dim(1), query.Stride(2),
+		query.Dim(2))
+
+	compressedKV := attn.KVA.Forward(ctx, hiddenStates)
+
+	kPass := compressedKV.View(ctx, 0, opts.kvLoraRank, compressedKV.Stride(1), compressedKV.Dim(1))
+	kRot := compressedKV.View(ctx, opts.kvLoraRank*compressedKV.Stride(0),
+		opts.qkRopeHeadDim, compressedKV.Stride(1),
+		1, compressedKV.Stride(1),
+		compressedKV.Dim(1))
+
+	kPass = attn.KVANorm.Forward(ctx, kPass, opts.eps)
+	kPass = attn.KVB.Forward(ctx, kPass)
+
+	kv := kPass.Reshape(ctx, kPass.Dim(0)/opts.numKVHeads, opts.numKVHeads, seqLength)
+	kPass = kv.View(ctx, 0, opts.kqNopeHeadDim, kv.Stride(1), kv.Dim(1), kv.Stride(2), kv.Dim(2))
+	value := kv.View(ctx, opts.kqNopeHeadDim*kv.Stride(0),
+		opts.vHeadDim, kv.Stride(1),
+		kv.Dim(1), kv.Stride(2),
+		kv.Dim(2)).Contiguous(ctx)
+
+	qRot = fast.RoPE(ctx, qRot, positions, opts.qkRopeHeadDim, opts.ropeBase, 1./opts.ropeScale, opts.RoPEOptions()...)
+	kRot = fast.RoPE(ctx, kRot, positions, opts.qkRopeHeadDim, opts.ropeBase, 1./opts.ropeScale, opts.RoPEOptions()...)
+
+	kRot = kRot.Repeat(ctx, 1, qPass.Dim(1))
+
+	query = qRot.Concat(ctx, qPass, 0)
+	key := kRot.Concat(ctx, kPass, 0)
+
+	attention := nn.Attention(ctx, query, key, value, opts.kqScale, cache)
+	attention = attention.Reshape(ctx, attention.Dim(0)*attention.Dim(1), seqLength)
+	return attn.Output.Forward(ctx, attention)
+}
+
+type MLP interface {
+	Forward(ml.Context, ml.Tensor, *Options) ml.Tensor
+}
+
+type sparse struct {
+	Router       *nn.Linear `gguf:"ffn_gate_inp"`
+	Gate         *nn.Linear `gguf:"ffn_gate_exps"`
+	Up           *nn.Linear `gguf:"ffn_up_exps"`
+	Down         *nn.Linear `gguf:"ffn_down_exps"`
+	SharedExpert *dense     `gguf:",suf:_shexp"`
+	ExpProbsBias ml.Tensor  `gguf:"exp_probs_b.bias,alt:exp_probs_b"`
+}
+
+func (moe *sparse) Moe(ctx ml.Context, hiddenStates, topKIndices, topKWeights ml.Tensor, opts *Options) ml.Tensor {
+	hiddenStates = hiddenStates.Reshape(ctx, hiddenStates.Dim(0), 1, hiddenStates.Dim(1))
+
+	upStates := moe.Up.Weight.MulmatID(ctx, hiddenStates, topKIndices)
+	hiddenStates = moe.Gate.Weight.MulmatID(ctx, hiddenStates, topKIndices)
+	hiddenStates = hiddenStates.SILU(ctx, upStates)
+
+	experts := moe.Down.Weight.MulmatID(ctx, hiddenStates, topKIndices)
+	experts = experts.Mul(ctx, topKWeights)
+	nextStates := experts.View(ctx, 0, experts.Dim(0), experts.Stride(2), experts.Dim(2))
+	for i := 1; i < opts.numExpertsUsed; i++ {
+		nextStates = nextStates.Add(ctx, experts.View(ctx, i*experts.Stride(1), experts.Dim(0), experts.Stride(2), experts.Dim(2)))
+	}
+	return nextStates
+}
+
+func (moe *sparse) topKIndices(ctx ml.Context, scores ml.Tensor, opts *Options) ml.Tensor {
+	scores = scores.Add(ctx, moe.ExpProbsBias)
+	topKIndices := scores.TopK(ctx, opts.numExpertsUsed)
+	return topKIndices
+}
+
+func (moe *sparse) Forward(ctx ml.Context, hiddenStates ml.Tensor, opts *Options) ml.Tensor {
+	residuals := hiddenStates
+
+	routerLogits := moe.Router.Forward(ctx, hiddenStates)
+	scores := routerLogits.Sigmoid(ctx)
+	topKIndices := moe.topKIndices(ctx, scores, opts)
+	topKWeights := scores.Reshape(ctx, 1, opts.numExperts, hiddenStates.Dim(1)).Rows(ctx, topKIndices)
+
+	if opts.normTopKProb {
+		topKWeights = topKWeights.Reshape(ctx, opts.numExpertsUsed, hiddenStates.Dim(1))
+		topKWeights = topKWeights.Div(ctx, topKWeights.SumRows(ctx))
+		topKWeights = topKWeights.Reshape(ctx, 1, opts.numExpertsUsed, hiddenStates.Dim(1))
+	}
+
+	topKWeights = topKWeights.Scale(ctx, float64(opts.routedScalingFactor))
+	hiddenStates = moe.Moe(ctx, hiddenStates, topKIndices, topKWeights, opts)
+	sharedExpertResult := moe.SharedExpert.Forward(ctx, residuals, opts)
+
+	hiddenStates = hiddenStates.Add(ctx, sharedExpertResult)
+	return hiddenStates
+}
+
+type dense struct {
+	Gate *nn.Linear `gguf:"ffn_gate"`
+	Up   *nn.Linear `gguf:"ffn_up"`
+	Down *nn.Linear `gguf:"ffn_down"`
+}
+
+func (mlp *dense) Forward(ctx ml.Context, hiddenStates ml.Tensor, opts *Options) ml.Tensor {
+	hiddenStates = mlp.Gate.Forward(ctx, hiddenStates).SILU(ctx, mlp.Up.Forward(ctx, hiddenStates))
+	return mlp.Down.Forward(ctx, hiddenStates)
+}
+
+type Layer struct {
+	AttentionNorm *nn.RMSNorm `gguf:"attn_norm"`
+	Attention     *Attention
+
+	MLPNorm *nn.RMSNorm `gguf:"ffn_norm"`
+	MLP     MLP
+}
+
+func (t *Layer) Forward(ctx ml.Context, hiddenStates, positions, outputs ml.Tensor, cache kvcache.Cache, opts *Options) ml.Tensor {
+	residual := hiddenStates
+	hiddenStates = t.AttentionNorm.Forward(ctx, hiddenStates, opts.eps)
+	hiddenStates = t.Attention.Forward(ctx, hiddenStates, positions, cache, opts)
+
+	if outputs != nil {
+		hiddenStates = hiddenStates.Rows(ctx, outputs)
+		residual = residual.Rows(ctx, outputs)
+	}
+
+	hiddenStates = hiddenStates.Add(ctx, residual)
+	residual = hiddenStates
+
+	hiddenStates = t.MLPNorm.Forward(ctx, hiddenStates, opts.eps)
+	hiddenStates = t.MLP.Forward(ctx, hiddenStates, opts)
+	hiddenStates = hiddenStates.Add(ctx, residual)
+	return hiddenStates
+}
+
+type Model struct {
+	model.Base
+	model.BytePairEncoding
+
+	TokenEmbedding *nn.Embedding `gguf:"token_embd"`
+	Layers         []Layer       `gguf:"blk"`
+
+	OutputNorm *nn.RMSNorm `gguf:"output_norm"`
+	Output     *nn.Linear  `gguf:"output,alt:token_embd"`
+
+	*Options
+}
+
+func New(c fs.Config) (model.Model, error) {
+	layers := make([]Layer, c.Uint("block_count"))
+
+	firstDenseLayerIndex := int(c.Uint("leading_dense_block_count"))
+	for i := range layers {
+		if i < firstDenseLayerIndex {
+			layers[i].MLP = &dense{}
+		} else {
+			layers[i].MLP = &sparse{}
+		}
+	}
+
+	mScale := float32(1.0 + float64(c.Float("rope.scaling.yarn_log_multiplier"))*math.Log(float64(c.Float("rope.scaling.factor"))))
+	kqScale := float64(mScale) * float64(mScale) / math.Sqrt(float64(c.Uint("attention.key_length")))
+
+	m := Model{
+		BytePairEncoding: model.NewBytePairEncoding(
+			&model.Vocabulary{
+				Values: c.Strings("tokenizer.ggml.tokens"),
+				Types:  c.Ints("tokenizer.ggml.token_type"),
+				Merges: c.Strings("tokenizer.ggml.merges"),
+				AddBOS: c.Bool("tokenizer.ggml.add_bos_token", true),
+				BOS:    []int32{int32(c.Uint("tokenizer.ggml.bos_token_id"))},
+				AddEOS: c.Bool("tokenizer.ggml.add_eos_token", false),
+				EOS: append(
+					[]int32{int32(c.Uint("tokenizer.ggml.eos_token_id"))},
+					c.Ints("tokenizer.ggml.eos_token_ids")...,
+				),
+			},
+			// Split regex into multiple parts (according to DeepSeek3's regex)
+			"\\p{N}{1,3}",
+			`[一-龥぀-ゟ゠-ヿ]+`,
+			"[!\"#$%&'()*+,\\-./:;<=>?@\\[\\\\\\]^_`{|}~][A-Za-z]+|[^\r\n\\p{L}\\p{P}\\p{S}]?[\\p{L}\\p{M}]+| ?[\\p{P}\\p{S}]+[\r\n]*|\\s*[\r\n]+|\\s+(?!\\S)|\\s+",
+		),
+		Layers: layers,
+		Options: &Options{
+			hiddenSize:     int(c.Uint("embedding_length")),
+			numHeads:       int(c.Uint("attention.head_count")),
+			numKVHeads:     int(c.Uint("attention.head_count_kv")),
+			keyLength:      int(c.Uint("attention.key_length")),
+			valueLength:    int(c.Uint("attention.value_length")),
+			eps:            c.Float("attention.layer_norm_rms_epsilon"),
+			ropeBase:       c.Float("rope.freq_base"),
+			ropeScale:      c.Float("rope.scaling.factor", 1),
+			numExperts:     int(c.Uint("expert_count")),
+			numExpertsUsed: int(c.Uint("expert_used_count")),
+			normTopKProb:   c.Bool("expert_weights_norm", true),
+
+			qLoraRank:     int(c.Uint("attention.q_lora_rank")), //&qLoraRankVal,
+			kvLoraRank:    int(c.Uint("attention.kv_lora_rank")),
+			qkHeadDim:     int(c.Uint("attention.key_length")),
+			vHeadDim:      int(c.Uint("attention.value_length")),
+			qkRopeHeadDim: int(c.Uint("rope.dimension_count")),
+			qkNopeHeadDim: int(c.Uint("attention.key_length")) - int(c.Uint("rope.dimension_count")),
+			kqNopeHeadDim: int(c.Uint("attention.key_length")) - int(c.Uint("rope.dimension_count")),
+
+			routedScalingFactor:   c.Float("expert_weights_scale"),
+			originalContextLength: int(c.Uint("rope.scaling.original_context_length")),
+
+			kqScale: kqScale,
+		},
+	}
+
+	m.Cache = kvcache.NewCausalCache(m.Shift)
+	return &m, nil
+}
+
+func (m Model) Shift(ctx ml.Context, layer int, key, shift ml.Tensor) (ml.Tensor, error) {
+	return fast.RoPE(ctx, key, shift, m.qkRopeHeadDim, m.ropeBase, 1./m.ropeScale, m.RoPEOptions()...), nil
+}
+
+func (m *Model) Forward(ctx ml.Context, batch input.Batch) (ml.Tensor, error) {
+	positions := ctx.Input().FromIntSlice(batch.Positions, len(batch.Positions))
+
+	hiddenStates := m.TokenEmbedding.Forward(ctx, batch.Inputs)
+
+	for i, layer := range m.Layers {
+		m.Cache.SetLayer(i)
+
+		var outputs ml.Tensor
+		if i == len(m.Layers)-1 {
+			outputs = batch.Outputs
+		}
+
+		hiddenStates = layer.Forward(ctx, hiddenStates, positions, outputs, m.Cache, m.Options)
+	}
+
+	hiddenStates = m.OutputNorm.Forward(ctx, hiddenStates, m.eps)
+	return m.Output.Forward(ctx, hiddenStates), nil
+}
+
+func init() {
+	model.Register("deepseek2", New)
+}
diff --git a/model/models/models.go b/model/models/models.go
index cc99807891..0cda615af6 100644
--- a/model/models/models.go
+++ b/model/models/models.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package models
 
 import (
 	_ "github.com/ollama/ollama/model/models/bert"
+	_ "github.com/ollama/ollama/model/models/deepseek2"
 	_ "github.com/ollama/ollama/model/models/gemma2"
 	_ "github.com/ollama/ollama/model/models/gemma3"
 	_ "github.com/ollama/ollama/model/models/gemma3n"