diff --git a/open_lm/model.py b/open_lm/model.py
index 06f260a1..d0750af0 100644
--- a/open_lm/model.py
+++ b/open_lm/model.py
@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@
 from open_lm.positional_embedding.rotary import RotaryWithCast
 from open_lm.positional_embedding.llama_rotary import LLaMARotaryWithCast
 
+try:  # optional import
+    from mamba_ssm import MambaLMHeadModel
+except ImportError:
+    MambaLMHeadModel = None
+
 # from openclip
 _MODEL_CONFIG_PATHS = [Path(__file__).parent / f"model_configs/"]
 _MODEL_CONFIGS = {}  # directory (model_name: config) of model architecture configs
@@ -305,20 +310,57 @@ def create_params(args):
     # These args are managed separately by the argparser
     # If a parameter is in the model config, regardless of the args, we use the config parameters
     # If a parameter is not in the model config, we use the args parameter
-    return Params(
-        dim=cfg["hidden_dim"],
-        n_layers=cfg["n_layers"],
-        n_heads=cfg["n_heads"],
-        seq_len=cfg["seq_len"],
-        vocab_size=cfg["vocab_size"],
-        post_embed_norm=cfg["post_embed_norm"],
-        weight_tying=cfg["weight_tying"],
-        norm_type=get_norm_class(cfg.get("model_norm", args.model_norm)),
-        apply_qk_norm=cfg.get("qk_norm", args.qk_norm),
-        positional_embedding_type=cfg.get("positional_embedding_type", args.positional_embedding_type),
-        ffn_type=cfg.get("ffn_type", args.ffn_type),
-    )
+
+    if "mamba" in args.model:
+        return {
+            "d_model": cfg["d_model"],
+            "n_layer": cfg["n_layer"],
+            "vocab_size": cfg["vocab_size"],
+            "seq_len": cfg["seq_len"],
+        }
+    else:
+        return Params(
+            dim=cfg["hidden_dim"],
+            n_layers=cfg["n_layers"],
+            n_heads=cfg["n_heads"],
+            seq_len=cfg["seq_len"],
+            vocab_size=cfg["vocab_size"],
+            post_embed_norm=cfg["post_embed_norm"],
+            weight_tying=cfg["weight_tying"],
+            norm_type=get_norm_class(cfg.get("model_norm", args.model_norm)),
+            apply_qk_norm=cfg.get("qk_norm", args.qk_norm),
+            positional_embedding_type=cfg.get("positional_embedding_type", args.positional_embedding_type),
+            ffn_type=cfg.get("ffn_type", args.ffn_type),
+        )
+
+
+class Mamba(nn.Module):
+    # Experimental architecture, please "pip install mamba-ssm"
+    # https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00752
+    def __init__(self, params):
+        if MambaLMHeadModel is None:
+            raise ImportError(
+                "MambaLMHeadModel is not available. Please install the 'mamba_ssm' package by running 'pip install mamba-ssm'."
+            )
+
+        super().__init__()
+        self.seq_len = params.pop("seq_len")
+        self.vocab_size = params["vocab_size"]
+
+        self.model = MambaLMHeadModel(**params)
+
+    def reset_parameters(self):
+        return
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        out = self.model(x).logits
+        return out, None
 
 
 def create_model(args):
-    return Transformer(create_params(args))
+    if "mamba" in args.model:
+        model = Mamba(create_params(args))
+        return model
+    else:
+        model = Transformer(create_params(args))
+        return model
diff --git a/open_lm/model_configs/mamba_130m.json b/open_lm/model_configs/mamba_130m.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..172c7e5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/open_lm/model_configs/mamba_130m.json
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{
+    "d_model": 768,
+    "n_layer": 12,
+    "vocab_size": 50432,
+    "seq_len": 2048
+}
diff --git a/open_lm/model_configs/mamba_1b.json b/open_lm/model_configs/mamba_1b.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6af97f5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/open_lm/model_configs/mamba_1b.json
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{
+    "d_model": 2048,
+    "n_layer": 36,
+    "vocab_size": 50432,
+    "seq_len": 2048
+}