diff --git a/llama.cpp b/llama.cpp
index 5030c33ee..4c9430402 100644
--- a/llama.cpp
+++ b/llama.cpp
@@ -6131,12 +6131,6 @@ static bool llm_load_tensors(
                         layer.wv = ml.create_tensor(ctx_split, tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_V,   "weight", i), {n_embd, n_embd_gqa});
                         layer.wo = ml.create_tensor(ctx_split, tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_OUT, "weight", i), {n_embd, n_embd});
 
-                        // optional bias tensors
-                        layer.bq = ml.create_tensor(ctx_layer, tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_Q,   "bias", i), {n_embd},     false);
-                        layer.bk = ml.create_tensor(ctx_layer, tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_K,   "bias", i), {n_embd_gqa}, false);
-                        layer.bv = ml.create_tensor(ctx_layer, tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_V,   "bias", i), {n_embd_gqa}, false);
-                        layer.bo = ml.create_tensor(ctx_layer, tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_OUT, "bias", i), {n_embd},     false);
-
                         layer.ffn_norm = ml.create_tensor(ctx_layer, tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_NORM, "weight", i), {n_embd});
 
                         layer.ffn_gate = ml.create_tensor(ctx_split, tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_GATE, "weight", i), {n_embd, n_embd});
@@ -10906,24 +10900,12 @@ struct llm_build_context {
                 // compute Q and K and RoPE them
                 struct ggml_tensor * Qcur = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, model.layers[il].wq, cur);
                 cb(Qcur, "Qcur", il);
-                if (model.layers[il].bq) {
-                    Qcur = ggml_add(ctx0, Qcur, model.layers[il].bq);
-                    cb(Qcur, "Qcur", il);
-                }
 
                 struct ggml_tensor * Kcur = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, model.layers[il].wk, cur);
                 cb(Kcur, "Kcur", il);
-                if (model.layers[il].bk) {
-                    Kcur = ggml_add(ctx0, Kcur, model.layers[il].bk);
-                    cb(Kcur, "Kcur", il);
-                }
 
                 struct ggml_tensor * Vcur = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, model.layers[il].wv, cur);
                 cb(Vcur, "Vcur", il);
-                if (model.layers[il].bv) {
-                    Vcur = ggml_add(ctx0, Vcur, model.layers[il].bv);
-                    cb(Vcur, "Vcur", il);
-                }
 
                 Qcur = ggml_rope_custom(
                     ctx0, ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, Qcur, n_embd_head, n_head, n_tokens), inp_pos,
@@ -10940,7 +10922,7 @@ struct llm_build_context {
                 cb(Kcur, "Kcur", il);
 
                 cur = llm_build_kv(ctx0, model, hparams, cparams, kv_self, gf,
-                        model.layers[il].wo, model.layers[il].bo,
+                        model.layers[il].wo, NULL,
                         Kcur, Vcur, Qcur, KQ_mask, n_tokens, kv_head, n_kv, 1.0f/sqrtf(float(n_embd_head)), cb, il);
             }