diff --git a/moshi_mlx/moshi_mlx/run_helium.py b/moshi_mlx/moshi_mlx/run_helium.py
index c0a560f..684cc48 100644
--- a/moshi_mlx/moshi_mlx/run_helium.py
+++ b/moshi_mlx/moshi_mlx/run_helium.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 import sentencepiece
 import huggingface_hub
 import mlx.core as mx
+import mlx.nn as nn
 from moshi_mlx import models, utils
 
 
@@ -17,6 +18,9 @@ def main():
     parser.add_argument("--hf-repo", type=str, default="kyutai/helium-1-preview-2b-mlx")
     parser.add_argument("--prompt", type=str, default="Aujourd'hui, il est temps")
     parser.add_argument("--verbose", action="store_true")
+    parser.add_argument("--quantize-bits", type=int)
+    parser.add_argument("--save-quantized", type=str)
+    parser.add_argument("--quantize-group-size", type=int, default=64)
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
     weights = args.weights
@@ -35,6 +39,11 @@ def main():
     model = models.Lm(lm_config)
     model.set_dtype(mx.bfloat16)
     model.load_weights(weights, strict=True)
+    if args.quantize_bits is not None:
+        nn.quantize(model, bits=args.quantize_bits, group_size=args.quantize_group_size)
+        if args.save_quantized is not None:
+            print(f"saving quantized weights in {args.save_quantized}")
+            model.save_weights(args.save_quantized)
     sampler = utils.Sampler()
     tokenizer = sentencepiece.SentencePieceProcessor(tokenizer)  # type: ignore
     if args.verbose: