diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7edb6f6a..790c6e6d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ BINARY_NAME=local-ai
 DETECT_LIBS?=true
 
 # llama.cpp versions
-GOLLAMA_REPO?=https://github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp
-GOLLAMA_VERSION?=2b57a8ae43e4699d3dc5d1496a1ccd42922993be
 CPPLLAMA_VERSION?=d774ab3acc4fee41fbed6dbfc192b57d5f79f34b
 
 # whisper.cpp version
@@ -151,7 +149,6 @@ ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),hipblas)
 	LD_LIBRARY_PATH ?= /opt/rocm/lib:/opt/rocm/llvm/lib
 	export CXX=$(ROCM_HOME)/llvm/bin/clang++
 	export CC=$(ROCM_HOME)/llvm/bin/clang
-	# llama-ggml has no hipblas support, so override it here.
 	export STABLE_BUILD_TYPE=
 	export GGML_HIP=1
 	GPU_TARGETS ?= gfx900,gfx906,gfx908,gfx940,gfx941,gfx942,gfx90a,gfx1030,gfx1031,gfx1100,gfx1101
@@ -188,7 +185,6 @@ ALL_GRPC_BACKENDS+=backend-assets/grpc/llama-cpp-avx
 ALL_GRPC_BACKENDS+=backend-assets/grpc/llama-cpp-avx2
 ALL_GRPC_BACKENDS+=backend-assets/grpc/llama-cpp-avx512
 ALL_GRPC_BACKENDS+=backend-assets/grpc/llama-cpp-fallback
-ALL_GRPC_BACKENDS+=backend-assets/grpc/llama-ggml
 ALL_GRPC_BACKENDS+=backend-assets/grpc/llama-cpp-grpc
 ALL_GRPC_BACKENDS+=backend-assets/util/llama-cpp-rpc-server
 ALL_GRPC_BACKENDS+=backend-assets/grpc/whisper
@@ -222,19 +218,6 @@ endif
 
 all: help
 
-## go-llama.cpp
-sources/go-llama.cpp:
-	mkdir -p sources/go-llama.cpp
-	cd sources/go-llama.cpp && \
-	git init && \
-	git remote add origin $(GOLLAMA_REPO) && \
-	git fetch origin && \
-	git checkout $(GOLLAMA_VERSION) && \
-	git submodule update --init --recursive --depth 1 --single-branch
-
-sources/go-llama.cpp/libbinding.a: sources/go-llama.cpp
-	$(MAKE) -C sources/go-llama.cpp BUILD_TYPE=$(STABLE_BUILD_TYPE) libbinding.a
-
 ## bark.cpp
 sources/bark.cpp:
 	git clone --recursive $(BARKCPP_REPO) sources/bark.cpp && \
@@ -310,19 +293,17 @@ sources/whisper.cpp:
 sources/whisper.cpp/libwhisper.a: sources/whisper.cpp
 	cd sources/whisper.cpp && $(MAKE) libwhisper.a libggml.a
 
-get-sources: sources/go-llama.cpp sources/go-piper sources/stablediffusion-ggml.cpp sources/bark.cpp sources/whisper.cpp backend/cpp/llama/llama.cpp
+get-sources: sources/go-piper sources/stablediffusion-ggml.cpp sources/bark.cpp sources/whisper.cpp backend/cpp/llama/llama.cpp
 
 replace:
 	$(GOCMD) mod edit -replace github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp=$(CURDIR)/sources/whisper.cpp
 	$(GOCMD) mod edit -replace github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/bindings/go=$(CURDIR)/sources/whisper.cpp/bindings/go
 	$(GOCMD) mod edit -replace github.com/mudler/go-piper=$(CURDIR)/sources/go-piper
-	$(GOCMD) mod edit -replace github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp=$(CURDIR)/sources/go-llama.cpp
 
 dropreplace:
 	$(GOCMD) mod edit -dropreplace github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
 	$(GOCMD) mod edit -dropreplace github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/bindings/go
 	$(GOCMD) mod edit -dropreplace github.com/mudler/go-piper
-	$(GOCMD) mod edit -dropreplace github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp
 
 prepare-sources: get-sources replace
 	$(GOCMD) mod download
@@ -330,7 +311,6 @@ prepare-sources: get-sources replace
 ## GENERIC
 rebuild: ## Rebuilds the project
 	$(GOCMD) clean -cache
-	$(MAKE) -C sources/go-llama.cpp clean
 	$(MAKE) -C sources/whisper.cpp clean
 	$(MAKE) -C sources/go-piper clean
 	$(MAKE) build
@@ -434,7 +414,7 @@ run: prepare ## run local-ai
 test-models/testmodel.ggml:
 	mkdir test-models
 	mkdir test-dir
-	wget -q https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/orca_mini_3B-GGML/resolve/main/orca-mini-3b.ggmlv3.q4_0.bin -O test-models/testmodel.ggml
+	wget -q https://huggingface.co/RichardErkhov/Qwen_-_Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct-gguf/resolve/main/Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct.Q2_K.gguf -O test-models/testmodel.ggml
 	wget -q https://huggingface.co/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/resolve/main/ggml-base.en.bin -O test-models/whisper-en
 	wget -q https://huggingface.co/mudler/all-MiniLM-L6-v2/resolve/main/ggml-model-q4_0.bin -O test-models/bert
 	wget -q https://cdn.openai.com/whisper/draft-20220913a/micro-machines.wav -O test-dir/audio.wav
@@ -449,8 +429,7 @@ test: prepare test-models/testmodel.ggml grpcs
 	export GO_TAGS="tts debug"
 	$(MAKE) prepare-test
 	HUGGINGFACE_GRPC=$(abspath ./)/backend/python/transformers/run.sh TEST_DIR=$(abspath ./)/test-dir/ FIXTURES=$(abspath ./)/tests/fixtures CONFIG_FILE=$(abspath ./)/test-models/config.yaml MODELS_PATH=$(abspath ./)/test-models \
-	$(GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --label-filter="!llama && !llama-gguf"  --flake-attempts $(TEST_FLAKES) --fail-fast -v -r $(TEST_PATHS)
-	$(MAKE) test-llama
+	$(GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --label-filter="!llama-gguf"  --flake-attempts $(TEST_FLAKES) --fail-fast -v -r $(TEST_PATHS)
 	$(MAKE) test-llama-gguf
 	$(MAKE) test-tts
 	$(MAKE) test-stablediffusion
@@ -479,10 +458,6 @@ teardown-e2e:
 	rm -rf $(TEST_DIR) || true
 	docker stop $$(docker ps -q --filter ancestor=localai-tests)
 
-test-llama: prepare-test
-	TEST_DIR=$(abspath ./)/test-dir/ FIXTURES=$(abspath ./)/tests/fixtures CONFIG_FILE=$(abspath ./)/test-models/config.yaml MODELS_PATH=$(abspath ./)/test-models \
-	$(GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --label-filter="llama" --flake-attempts $(TEST_FLAKES) -v -r $(TEST_PATHS)
-
 test-llama-gguf: prepare-test
 	TEST_DIR=$(abspath ./)/test-dir/ FIXTURES=$(abspath ./)/tests/fixtures CONFIG_FILE=$(abspath ./)/test-models/config.yaml MODELS_PATH=$(abspath ./)/test-models \
 	$(GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --label-filter="llama-gguf" --flake-attempts $(TEST_FLAKES) -v -r $(TEST_PATHS)
@@ -760,13 +735,6 @@ backend-assets/util/llama-cpp-rpc-server: backend-assets/grpc/llama-cpp-grpc
 	mkdir -p backend-assets/util/
 	cp -rf backend/cpp/llama-grpc/llama.cpp/build/bin/rpc-server backend-assets/util/llama-cpp-rpc-server
 
-backend-assets/grpc/llama-ggml: sources/go-llama.cpp sources/go-llama.cpp/libbinding.a backend-assets/grpc
-	CGO_LDFLAGS="$(CGO_LDFLAGS)" C_INCLUDE_PATH=$(CURDIR)/sources/go-llama.cpp LIBRARY_PATH=$(CURDIR)/sources/go-llama.cpp \
-	$(GOCMD) build -ldflags "$(LD_FLAGS)" -tags "$(GO_TAGS)" -o backend-assets/grpc/llama-ggml ./backend/go/llm/llama-ggml/
-ifneq ($(UPX),)
-	$(UPX) backend-assets/grpc/llama-ggml
-endif
-
 backend-assets/grpc/bark-cpp: backend/go/bark/libbark.a backend-assets/grpc
 	CGO_LDFLAGS="$(CGO_LDFLAGS)" C_INCLUDE_PATH=$(CURDIR)/backend/go/bark/ LIBRARY_PATH=$(CURDIR)/backend/go/bark/ \
 	$(GOCMD) build -ldflags "$(LD_FLAGS)" -tags "$(GO_TAGS)" -o backend-assets/grpc/bark-cpp ./backend/go/bark/
diff --git a/backend/go/llm/llama-ggml/llama.go b/backend/go/llm/llama-ggml/llama.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 1a7add69..00000000
--- a/backend/go/llm/llama-ggml/llama.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,204 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-// This is a wrapper to statisfy the GRPC service interface
-// It is meant to be used by the main executable that is the server for the specific backend type (falcon, gpt3, etc)
-import (
-	"fmt"
-
-	"github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp"
-	"github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc/base"
-	pb "github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc/proto"
-)
-
-type LLM struct {
-	base.SingleThread
-
-	llama *llama.LLama
-}
-
-func (llm *LLM) Load(opts *pb.ModelOptions) error {
-	ropeFreqBase := float32(10000)
-	ropeFreqScale := float32(1)
-
-	if opts.RopeFreqBase != 0 {
-		ropeFreqBase = opts.RopeFreqBase
-	}
-	if opts.RopeFreqScale != 0 {
-		ropeFreqScale = opts.RopeFreqScale
-	}
-
-	llamaOpts := []llama.ModelOption{
-		llama.WithRopeFreqBase(ropeFreqBase),
-		llama.WithRopeFreqScale(ropeFreqScale),
-	}
-
-	if opts.NGQA != 0 {
-		llamaOpts = append(llamaOpts, llama.WithGQA(int(opts.NGQA)))
-	}
-
-	if opts.RMSNormEps != 0 {
-		llamaOpts = append(llamaOpts, llama.WithRMSNormEPS(opts.RMSNormEps))
-	}
-
-	if opts.ContextSize != 0 {
-		llamaOpts = append(llamaOpts, llama.SetContext(int(opts.ContextSize)))
-	}
-	if opts.F16Memory {
-		llamaOpts = append(llamaOpts, llama.EnableF16Memory)
-	}
-	if opts.Embeddings {
-		llamaOpts = append(llamaOpts, llama.EnableEmbeddings)
-	}
-	if opts.NGPULayers != 0 {
-		llamaOpts = append(llamaOpts, llama.SetGPULayers(int(opts.NGPULayers)))
-	}
-
-	llamaOpts = append(llamaOpts, llama.SetMMap(opts.MMap))
-	llamaOpts = append(llamaOpts, llama.SetMainGPU(opts.MainGPU))
-	llamaOpts = append(llamaOpts, llama.SetTensorSplit(opts.TensorSplit))
-	if opts.NBatch != 0 {
-		llamaOpts = append(llamaOpts, llama.SetNBatch(int(opts.NBatch)))
-	} else {
-		llamaOpts = append(llamaOpts, llama.SetNBatch(512))
-	}
-
-	if opts.NUMA {
-		llamaOpts = append(llamaOpts, llama.EnableNUMA)
-	}
-
-	if opts.LowVRAM {
-		llamaOpts = append(llamaOpts, llama.EnabelLowVRAM)
-	}
-
-	model, err := llama.New(opts.ModelFile, llamaOpts...)
-	llm.llama = model
-
-	return err
-}
-
-func buildPredictOptions(opts *pb.PredictOptions) []llama.PredictOption {
-	ropeFreqBase := float32(10000)
-	ropeFreqScale := float32(1)
-
-	if opts.RopeFreqBase != 0 {
-		ropeFreqBase = opts.RopeFreqBase
-	}
-	if opts.RopeFreqScale != 0 {
-		ropeFreqScale = opts.RopeFreqScale
-	}
-	predictOptions := []llama.PredictOption{
-		llama.SetTemperature(opts.Temperature),
-		llama.SetTopP(opts.TopP),
-		llama.SetTopK(int(opts.TopK)),
-		llama.SetTokens(int(opts.Tokens)),
-		llama.SetThreads(int(opts.Threads)),
-		llama.WithGrammar(opts.Grammar),
-		llama.SetRopeFreqBase(ropeFreqBase),
-		llama.SetRopeFreqScale(ropeFreqScale),
-		llama.SetNegativePromptScale(opts.NegativePromptScale),
-		llama.SetNegativePrompt(opts.NegativePrompt),
-	}
-
-	if opts.PromptCacheAll {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.EnablePromptCacheAll)
-	}
-
-	if opts.PromptCacheRO {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.EnablePromptCacheRO)
-	}
-
-	// Expected absolute path
-	if opts.PromptCachePath != "" {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.SetPathPromptCache(opts.PromptCachePath))
-	}
-
-	if opts.Mirostat != 0 {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.SetMirostat(int(opts.Mirostat)))
-	}
-
-	if opts.MirostatETA != 0 {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.SetMirostatETA(opts.MirostatETA))
-	}
-
-	if opts.MirostatTAU != 0 {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.SetMirostatTAU(opts.MirostatTAU))
-	}
-
-	if opts.Debug {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.Debug)
-	}
-
-	predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.SetStopWords(opts.StopPrompts...))
-
-	if opts.PresencePenalty != 0 {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.SetPenalty(opts.PresencePenalty))
-	}
-
-	if opts.NKeep != 0 {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.SetNKeep(int(opts.NKeep)))
-	}
-
-	if opts.Batch != 0 {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.SetBatch(int(opts.Batch)))
-	}
-
-	if opts.F16KV {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.EnableF16KV)
-	}
-
-	if opts.IgnoreEOS {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.IgnoreEOS)
-	}
-
-	if opts.Seed != 0 {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.SetSeed(int(opts.Seed)))
-	}
-
-	//predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.SetLogitBias(c.Seed))
-
-	predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.SetFrequencyPenalty(opts.FrequencyPenalty))
-	predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.SetMlock(opts.MLock))
-	predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.SetMemoryMap(opts.MMap))
-	predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.SetPredictionMainGPU(opts.MainGPU))
-	predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.SetPredictionTensorSplit(opts.TensorSplit))
-	predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.SetTailFreeSamplingZ(opts.TailFreeSamplingZ))
-	predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.SetTypicalP(opts.TypicalP))
-	return predictOptions
-}
-
-func (llm *LLM) Predict(opts *pb.PredictOptions) (string, error) {
-	return llm.llama.Predict(opts.Prompt, buildPredictOptions(opts)...)
-}
-
-func (llm *LLM) PredictStream(opts *pb.PredictOptions, results chan string) error {
-	predictOptions := buildPredictOptions(opts)
-
-	predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.SetTokenCallback(func(token string) bool {
-		results <- token
-		return true
-	}))
-
-	go func() {
-		_, err := llm.llama.Predict(opts.Prompt, predictOptions...)
-		if err != nil {
-			fmt.Println("err: ", err)
-		}
-		close(results)
-	}()
-
-	return nil
-}
-
-func (llm *LLM) Embeddings(opts *pb.PredictOptions) ([]float32, error) {
-	predictOptions := buildPredictOptions(opts)
-
-	if len(opts.EmbeddingTokens) > 0 {
-		tokens := []int{}
-		for _, t := range opts.EmbeddingTokens {
-			tokens = append(tokens, int(t))
-		}
-		return llm.llama.TokenEmbeddings(tokens, predictOptions...)
-	}
-
-	return llm.llama.Embeddings(opts.Embeddings, predictOptions...)
-}
diff --git a/backend/go/llm/llama-ggml/main.go b/backend/go/llm/llama-ggml/main.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 544771db..00000000
--- a/backend/go/llm/llama-ggml/main.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"flag"
-
-	grpc "github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc"
-)
-
-var (
-	addr = flag.String("addr", "localhost:50051", "the address to connect to")
-)
-
-func main() {
-	flag.Parse()
-
-	if err := grpc.StartServer(*addr, &LLM{}); err != nil {
-		panic(err)
-	}
-}
diff --git a/core/http/app_test.go b/core/http/app_test.go
index ca7a2eaa..ecaf6da3 100644
--- a/core/http/app_test.go
+++ b/core/http/app_test.go
@@ -526,77 +526,6 @@ var _ = Describe("API test", func() {
 				Expect(content["usage"]).To(ContainSubstring("You can test this model with curl like this"))
 			})
 
-			It("runs openllama(llama-ggml backend)", Label("llama"), func() {
-				if runtime.GOOS != "linux" {
-					Skip("test supported only on linux")
-				}
-				response := postModelApplyRequest("http://127.0.0.1:9090/models/apply", modelApplyRequest{
-					URL:       "github:go-skynet/model-gallery/openllama_3b.yaml",
-					Name:      "openllama_3b",
-					Overrides: map[string]interface{}{"backend": "llama-ggml", "mmap": true, "f16": true, "context_size": 128},
-				})
-
-				Expect(response["uuid"]).ToNot(BeEmpty(), fmt.Sprint(response))
-
-				uuid := response["uuid"].(string)
-
-				Eventually(func() bool {
-					response := getModelStatus("http://127.0.0.1:9090/models/jobs/" + uuid)
-					return response["processed"].(bool)
-				}, "360s", "10s").Should(Equal(true))
-
-				By("testing completion")
-				resp, err := client.CreateCompletion(context.TODO(), openai.CompletionRequest{Model: "openllama_3b", Prompt: "Count up to five: one, two, three, four, "})
-				Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
-				Expect(len(resp.Choices)).To(Equal(1))
-				Expect(resp.Choices[0].Text).To(ContainSubstring("five"))
-
-				By("testing functions")
-				resp2, err := client.CreateChatCompletion(
-					context.TODO(),
-					openai.ChatCompletionRequest{
-						Model: "openllama_3b",
-						Messages: []openai.ChatCompletionMessage{
-							{
-								Role:    "user",
-								Content: "What is the weather like in San Francisco (celsius)?",
-							},
-						},
-						Functions: []openai.FunctionDefinition{
-							openai.FunctionDefinition{
-								Name:        "get_current_weather",
-								Description: "Get the current weather",
-								Parameters: jsonschema.Definition{
-									Type: jsonschema.Object,
-									Properties: map[string]jsonschema.Definition{
-										"location": {
-											Type:        jsonschema.String,
-											Description: "The city and state, e.g. San Francisco, CA",
-										},
-										"unit": {
-											Type: jsonschema.String,
-											Enum: []string{"celcius", "fahrenheit"},
-										},
-									},
-									Required: []string{"location"},
-								},
-							},
-						},
-					})
-				Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
-				Expect(len(resp2.Choices)).To(Equal(1))
-				Expect(resp2.Choices[0].Message.FunctionCall).ToNot(BeNil())
-				Expect(resp2.Choices[0].Message.FunctionCall.Name).To(Equal("get_current_weather"), resp2.Choices[0].Message.FunctionCall.Name)
-
-				var res map[string]string
-				err = json.Unmarshal([]byte(resp2.Choices[0].Message.FunctionCall.Arguments), &res)
-				Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
-				Expect(res["location"]).To(ContainSubstring("San Francisco"), fmt.Sprint(res))
-				Expect(res["unit"]).To(Equal("celcius"), fmt.Sprint(res))
-				Expect(string(resp2.Choices[0].FinishReason)).To(Equal("function_call"), fmt.Sprint(resp2.Choices[0].FinishReason))
-
-			})
-
 			It("runs openllama gguf(llama-cpp)", Label("llama-gguf"), func() {
 				if runtime.GOOS != "linux" {
 					Skip("test supported only on linux")
diff --git a/docs/content/docs/features/text-generation.md b/docs/content/docs/features/text-generation.md
index 11ab3999..342b8e76 100644
--- a/docs/content/docs/features/text-generation.md
+++ b/docs/content/docs/features/text-generation.md
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ Note: rwkv models needs to specify the backend `rwkv` in the YAML config files a
 
 {{% alert note %}}
 
-The `ggml` file format has been deprecated. If you are using `ggml` models and you are configuring your model with a YAML file, specify, use the `llama-ggml` backend instead. If you are relying in automatic detection of the model, you should be fine. For `gguf` models, use the `llama` backend. The go backend is deprecated as well but still available as `go-llama`. The go backend supports still features not available in the mainline: speculative sampling and embeddings.
+The `ggml` file format has been deprecated. If you are using `ggml` models and you are configuring your model with a YAML file, specify, use a LocalAI version older than v2.25.0. For `gguf` models, use the `llama` backend. The go backend is deprecated as well but still available as `go-llama`.
 
 {{% /alert %}}
 
@@ -175,25 +175,12 @@ name: llama
 backend: llama
 parameters:
   # Relative to the models path
-  model: file.gguf.bin
-```
-
-In the example above we specify `llama` as the backend to restrict loading `gguf` models only. 
-
-For instance, to use the `llama-ggml` backend for `ggml` models:
-
-```yaml
-name: llama
-backend: llama-ggml
-parameters:
-  # Relative to the models path
-  model: file.ggml.bin
+  model: file.gguf
 ```
 
 #### Reference
 
 - [llama](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp)
-- [binding](https://github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp)
 
 
 ### exllama/2
diff --git a/pkg/model/initializers.go b/pkg/model/initializers.go
index ace72fa3..5e465cf0 100644
--- a/pkg/model/initializers.go
+++ b/pkg/model/initializers.go
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ var TypeAlias map[string]string = map[string]string{
 var AutoDetect = os.Getenv("DISABLE_AUTODETECT") != "true"
 
 const (
-	LlamaGGML = "llama-ggml"
-
 	LLamaCPP = "llama-cpp"
 
 	LLamaCPPAVX2     = "llama-cpp-avx2"
@@ -143,10 +141,10 @@ func orderBackends(backends map[string][]string) ([]string, error) {
 
 	// sets a priority list - first has more priority
 	priorityList := []string{
-		// First llama.cpp(variants) and llama-ggml to follow.
+		// First llama.cpp(variants)
 		// We keep the fallback to prevent that if the llama.cpp variants
 		// that depends on shared libs if breaks have still a safety net.
-		LLamaCPP, LlamaGGML, LLamaCPPFallback,
+		LLamaCPP, LLamaCPPFallback,
 	}
 
 	toTheEnd := []string{