diff --git a/main.cpp b/main.cpp
index 2a07bbb40..3e9578d07 100644
--- a/main.cpp
+++ b/main.cpp
@@ -207,8 +207,8 @@ bool llama_model_load(const std::string & fname, llama_model & model, gpt_vocab
         ctx_size += n_layer*(n_ff*n_embd*ggml_type_sizef(wtype)); // w2
         ctx_size += n_layer*(n_ff*n_embd*ggml_type_sizef(wtype)); // w3
 
-        ctx_size += n_ctx*n_layer*n_embd*ggml_type_sizef(GGML_TYPE_F32); // memory_k
-        ctx_size += n_ctx*n_layer*n_embd*ggml_type_sizef(GGML_TYPE_F32); // memory_v
+        ctx_size += n_ctx*n_layer*n_embd*ggml_type_sizef(GGML_TYPE_F16); // memory_k
+        ctx_size += n_ctx*n_layer*n_embd*ggml_type_sizef(GGML_TYPE_F16); // memory_v
 
         ctx_size += (5 + 10*n_layer)*256; // object overhead
 
@@ -293,8 +293,8 @@ bool llama_model_load(const std::string & fname, llama_model & model, gpt_vocab
         const int n_mem      = n_layer*n_ctx;
         const int n_elements = n_embd*n_mem;
 
-        model.memory_k = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32, n_elements);
-        model.memory_v = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32, n_elements);
+        model.memory_k = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_F16, n_elements);
+        model.memory_v = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_F16, n_elements);
 
         const size_t memory_size = ggml_nbytes(model.memory_k) + ggml_nbytes(model.memory_v);