diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7a68a1d..e131685 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ BINARY_NAME=local-ai
 GOLLAMA_VERSION?=cca84ed55fb920ccdd6158958b2c9b773ce17eea
 GPT4ALL_REPO?=https://github.com/go-skynet/gpt4all
 GPT4ALL_VERSION?=f7498c9
-GOGGMLTRANSFORMERS_VERSION?=6fb862c72bc04568120e711b176defe116d3751e
+GOGGMLTRANSFORMERS_VERSION?=bd765bb6f3b38a63f915f3725e488aad492eedd4
 RWKV_REPO?=https://github.com/donomii/go-rwkv.cpp
 RWKV_VERSION?=1e18b2490e7e32f6b00e16f6a9ec0dd3a3d09266
 WHISPER_CPP_VERSION?=5b9e59bc07dd76320354f2af6be29f16dbcb21e7
diff --git a/api/api_test.go b/api/api_test.go
index 54118b8..6dc697a 100644
--- a/api/api_test.go
+++ b/api/api_test.go
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ var _ = Describe("API test", func() {
 		It("returns errors", func() {
 			_, err := client.CreateCompletion(context.TODO(), openai.CompletionRequest{Model: "foomodel", Prompt: "abcdedfghikl"})
 			Expect(err).To(HaveOccurred())
-			Expect(err.Error()).To(ContainSubstring("error, status code: 500, message: could not load model - all backends returned error: 10 errors occurred:"))
+			Expect(err.Error()).To(ContainSubstring("error, status code: 500, message: could not load model - all backends returned error: 11 errors occurred:"))
 		})
 		It("transcribes audio", func() {
 			if runtime.GOOS != "linux" {
diff --git a/api/prediction.go b/api/prediction.go
index 8aad422..04a5b95 100644
--- a/api/prediction.go
+++ b/api/prediction.go
@@ -368,6 +368,30 @@ func ModelInference(s string, loader *model.ModelLoader, c Config, tokenCallback
 				predictOptions = append(predictOptions, bloomz.SetSeed(c.Seed))
 			}
 
+			return model.Predict(
+				s,
+				predictOptions...,
+			)
+		}
+	case *transformers.Falcon:
+		fn = func() (string, error) {
+			// Generate the prediction using the language model
+			predictOptions := []transformers.PredictOption{
+				transformers.SetTemperature(c.Temperature),
+				transformers.SetTopP(c.TopP),
+				transformers.SetTopK(c.TopK),
+				transformers.SetTokens(c.Maxtokens),
+				transformers.SetThreads(c.Threads),
+			}
+
+			if c.Batch != 0 {
+				predictOptions = append(predictOptions, transformers.SetBatch(c.Batch))
+			}
+
+			if c.Seed != 0 {
+				predictOptions = append(predictOptions, transformers.SetSeed(c.Seed))
+			}
+
 			return model.Predict(
 				s,
 				predictOptions...,
diff --git a/pkg/model/initializers.go b/pkg/model/initializers.go
index b2c23b7..7de487d 100644
--- a/pkg/model/initializers.go
+++ b/pkg/model/initializers.go
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ const (
 	Gpt4AllMptBackend      = "gpt4all-mpt"
 	Gpt4AllJBackend        = "gpt4all-j"
 	Gpt4All                = "gpt4all"
+	FalconBackend          = "falcon"
 	BertEmbeddingsBackend  = "bert-embeddings"
 	RwkvBackend            = "rwkv"
 	WhisperBackend         = "whisper"
@@ -41,7 +42,7 @@ const (
 	LCHuggingFaceBackend   = "langchain-huggingface"
 )
 
-var backends []string = []string{
+var autoLoadBackends []string = []string{
 	LlamaBackend,
 	Gpt4All,
 	RwkvBackend,
@@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ var backends []string = []string{
 	GPTJBackend,
 	Gpt2Backend,
 	DollyBackend,
+	FalconBackend,
 	MPTBackend,
 	ReplitBackend,
 	StarcoderBackend,
@@ -81,6 +83,10 @@ var gptJ = func(modelFile string) (interface{}, error) {
 	return transformers.NewGPTJ(modelFile)
 }
 
+var falcon = func(modelFile string) (interface{}, error) {
+	return transformers.NewFalcon(modelFile)
+}
+
 var bertEmbeddings = func(modelFile string) (interface{}, error) {
 	return bert.New(modelFile)
 }
@@ -144,6 +150,8 @@ func (ml *ModelLoader) BackendLoader(backendString string, modelFile string, lla
 		return ml.LoadModel(modelFile, mpt)
 	case Gpt2Backend:
 		return ml.LoadModel(modelFile, transformersLM)
+	case FalconBackend:
+		return ml.LoadModel(modelFile, falcon)
 	case GPTNeoXBackend:
 		return ml.LoadModel(modelFile, gptNeoX)
 	case ReplitBackend:
@@ -180,7 +188,7 @@ func (ml *ModelLoader) GreedyLoader(modelFile string, llamaOpts []llama.ModelOpt
 	ml.mu.Unlock()
 	var err error
 
-	for _, b := range backends {
+	for _, b := range autoLoadBackends {
 		if b == BloomzBackend || b == WhisperBackend || b == RwkvBackend { // do not autoload bloomz/whisper/rwkv
 			continue
 		}