diff --git a/projects/github.com/antimatter15/alpaca.cpp/package.yml b/projects/github.com/antimatter15/alpaca.cpp/package.yml
index 10e99247..664f096d 100644
--- a/projects/github.com/antimatter15/alpaca.cpp/package.yml
+++ b/projects/github.com/antimatter15/alpaca.cpp/package.yml
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+warnings:
+  - deprecated
+
 distributable:
   url: https://github.com/antimatter15/alpaca.cpp/archive/refs/tags/81bd894.tar.gz
   strip-components: 1
diff --git a/projects/github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/README.md b/projects/github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a63d42fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# getting started
+
+```sh
+$ llama.cpp
+# ^^ default chat prompt with the OpenLLaMA model
+```
+
+If you want to run `llama.cpp` with your own args specify them and chat mode
+will be skipped.
+
+If you want to use a different model specify `--model`.
+
+# converting your own models
+
+We provide a working `convert.py` from the llama.cpp project. To use it you
+need to launch it via a tea pkgenv:
+
+```sh
+tea +github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp convert.py path/to/your/model
+```
diff --git a/projects/github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/llama-fetch b/projects/github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/llama-fetch
index 8c3cba99..6e3fe8e7 100755
--- a/projects/github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/llama-fetch
+++ b/projects/github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/llama-fetch
@@ -7,50 +7,23 @@ if test -f "$1"/VERSION && test $(cat "$1"/VERSION) = $2; then
   exit
 fi
 
-if command -v git >/dev/null; then
-  GIT="tea git"
-else
-  GIT=git
-fi
-
 mkdir -p "$1"
 cd "$1"
 
-tea gum format "# preparing for model fetch"
-echo  # spacer
-
-
-if test -d trackers; then
-  $GIT -C trackers fetch origin
-  $GIT -C trackers reset --hard origin/master
-else
-  $GIT clone "https://github.com/ngosang/trackerslist" trackers
-fi
-
-TRACKERS=$(grep -v '^#' "trackers/trackers_all.txt" | tr '\n' ',')
-
 tea gum format <<EoMD
-# downloading 4b quantized LLaMA (7B) model
+# downloading OpenLLaMA 3Bv2
 models will be placed: \`$PWD\`
 > this may take a a few minutes…
 EoMD
 
-# --dir is .. coz the torrent is prefixed with a LLaMA directory
-tea aria2c \
-  --dir=.. \
-  --seed-time=0 \
-  --bt-tracker="$TRACKERS" \
-  --summary-interval=0 \
-  --check-integrity \
-  'magnet:?xt=urn:btih:FLWZABA5EDZXVC45YHEMX6W55O6S4HXK'
+tea wget \
+  --continue \
+  --output-document OpenLLaMA-3Bv2.ggml.f16.bin \
+  'https://huggingface.co/SlyEcho/open_llama_3b_v2_ggml'
 
-tea gum format "# finalizing model"
-echo  #spacer
-
-tea +google.com/sentencepiece upgrade-model.py 7B tokenizer.model
-
-rm 7B/ggml-model-q4_0.bin
-mv 7B/ggml-model-q4_0.bin.tmp 7B/ggml-model-q4_0.bin
+tea wget \
+  --continue \
+  'https://huggingface.co/openlm-research/open_llama_3b_v2/resolve/main/tokenizer.model'
 
 echo $2 > VERSION
 
diff --git a/projects/github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/llama.cpp b/projects/github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/llama.cpp
index 57889c37..8e822b29 100755
--- a/projects/github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/llama.cpp
+++ b/projects/github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/llama.cpp
@@ -5,25 +5,33 @@ test -n "$VERBOSE" && set -x
 
 D="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")"/.. && pwd)"
 VERSION="$(basename "$D")"
-MODEL_DIR="${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/models/LLaMA"
+MODEL_DIR="${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/models/OpenLLaMA"
 
-export PATH="$D/tbin:$PATH"
+"$D"/libexec/llama-fetch "$MODEL_DIR" "$VERSION"
 
-llama-fetch "$MODEL_DIR" "$VERSION"
+if [ "$1" = '--fetch' ]; then
+  exit
+fi
 
-if test $1 = chat; then
-  exec "$D"/tbin/llama.cpp \
-    --model "$MODEL_DIR"/7B/ggml-model-q4_0.bin \
-    -n 256 \
+if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
+  exec "$D"/libexec/llama.cpp \
+    --model "$MODEL_DIR/OpenLLaMA-3Bv2.ggml.f16.bin" \
+    --ctx-size 512 \
+    --batch-size 1024 \
+    --n-predict 256 \
+    --keep 48 \
     --repeat_penalty 1.0 \
     --color \
-    -i \
-    -r \
-    "User:" \
-    -f "$D"/share/prompts/chat-with-bob.txt
-else
-  exec "$D"/tbin/llama.cpp \
-    --color \
-    --model "$MODEL_DIR"/7B/ggml-model-q4_0.bin \
-    "$@"
+    --interactive \
+    --reverse-prompt "User:" \
+    --file "$D"/share/prompts/chat-with-bob.txt
 fi
+
+# detect --model arg or not
+for arg in "$@"; do
+  if [ "$arg" = "--model" -o  "$arg" = "-m" ]; then
+    exec "$D"/libexec/llama.cpp "$@"
+  fi
+done
+
+exec "$D"/libexec/llama.cpp "$@" --model "$MODEL_DIR/OpenLLaMA-3Bv2.ggml.f16.bin"
diff --git a/projects/github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/package.yml b/projects/github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/package.yml
index ee4c8017..4a058e2a 100644
--- a/projects/github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/package.yml
+++ b/projects/github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/package.yml
@@ -1,39 +1,54 @@
 distributable:
-  url: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/archive/refs/tags/master-8b67998.tar.gz
+  url: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/archive/refs/tags/master-fff0e0e.tar.gz
   strip-components: 1
 
 versions:
-  - 2023.04.11
+  - 2023.07.20
 
 provides:
   - bin/llama.cpp
+  # NOTE! we do not “provide” convert.py. ∵ it’s too generic
+  # do `tea +github.com∕ggerganov∕llama.cpp convert.py`
+
+platforms:
+  - linux
+  - darwin/aarch64
+  # Illegal instruction: 4 on darwin/x86-64
+
+dependencies:
+  python.org: ^3.11
+  tea.xyz: ^0  # the scripts use tea/cli
 
 build:
   dependencies:
     tea.xyz/gx/cc: c99
     tea.xyz/gx/make: '*'
-    freedesktop.org/pkg-config: ~0.29
-    gnu.org/wget: '*'
-  script: |
-    mkdir -p {{prefix}}/bin {{prefix}}/tbin {{prefix}}/share
+    gnu.org/coreutils: '*'
+  env:
+    VIRTUAL_ENV: ${{prefix}}/venv
+  script:
+    - |
+      make --jobs {{hw.concurrency}}
+      install -D main {{prefix}}/libexec/llama.cpp
+      install -D props/llama.cpp {{prefix}}/bin/llama.cpp
 
-    make
-    mv main {{prefix}}/tbin/llama.cpp
+    - |
+      mkdir -p {{prefix}}/share
+      mv prompts {{prefix}}/share
+      mv props/llama-fetch {{prefix}}/libexec
 
-    mv props/llama.cpp {{prefix}}/bin
+    - |
+      install -D convert.py $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/convert.py
+      python-venv-stubber.sh convert.py
 
-    mv props/llama-fetch {{prefix}}/tbin
-    mv $SRCROOT/prompts {{prefix}}/share
-
-    mv $SRCROOT/*.py  {{prefix}}/tbin
-    mv quantize {{prefix}}/tbin/quantize
-
-    wget \
-      --no-check-certificate \
-      'https://gist.githubusercontent.com/eiz/828bddec6162a023114ce19146cb2b82/raw/6b1d2b192815e6d61386a9a8853f2c3293b3f568/gistfile1.txt' \
-       -O {{prefix}}/tbin/upgrade-model.py
-    chmod +x {{prefix}}/tbin/upgrade-model.py
+    - python -m venv $VIRTUAL_ENV
+    - |
+      source $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/activate
+      pip install -r requirements.txt
+      deactivate
 
 test: |
-  {{prefix}}/tbin/llama.cpp --help
-# testing more than this requires downloading the models 😬
+  {{prefix}}/libexec/llama.cpp --help
+  # testing more than this requires downloading the models 😬
+
+entrypoint: llama.cpp
diff --git a/projects/github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pyproject.toml b/projects/github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pyproject.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index 664d0be0..00000000
--- a/projects/github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pyproject.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-[project]
-requires-python = ">=3.7"
-name = "llama.cpp"
-version = '0.0.0'
-
-dependencies = [
-  "sentencepiece>=0.1.96"
-]