diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/llava/mod.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/llava/mod.rs
index caa8737af6..1ed3b50c63 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/llava/mod.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/llava/mod.rs
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ impl LLaVA {
                             (),
                         ))?
                     } else {
-                        todo!("not implemented in original python LLaVA yet")
+                        bail!("not implemented in original python LLaVA yet")
                     };
                     let new_image_feature = if mm_patch_merge_type.contains("unpad") {
                         let new_image_feature = new_image_feature
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/pixtral/llava.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/pixtral/llava.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5888fc81b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/pixtral/llava.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+use candle::{Module, Result, Tensor};
+use candle_nn::{linear, Linear, VarBuilder};
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct Config {
+    pub projector_hidden_act: candle_nn::Activation,
+    pub text_config_hidden_size: usize,
+    pub vision_config_hidden_size: usize,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct MultiModalProjector {
+    linear_1: Linear,
+    act: candle_nn::Activation,
+    linear_2: Linear,
+}
+
+impl MultiModalProjector {
+    pub fn new(cfg: &Config, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<Self> {
+        let (hidden_v, hidden_t) = (cfg.vision_config_hidden_size, cfg.text_config_hidden_size);
+        let linear_1 = linear(hidden_v, hidden_t, vb.pp("linear_1"))?;
+        let linear_2 = linear(hidden_t, hidden_t, vb.pp("linear_2"))?;
+        Ok(Self {
+            linear_1,
+            act: cfg.projector_hidden_act,
+            linear_2,
+        })
+    }
+}
+
+impl Module for MultiModalProjector {
+    fn forward(&self, xs: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        xs.apply(&self.linear_1)?
+            .apply(&self.act)?
+            .apply(&self.linear_2)
+    }
+}
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/pixtral/mod.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/pixtral/mod.rs
index 2f3a4ce300..b9ef83ad25 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/pixtral/mod.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/pixtral/mod.rs
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+pub mod llava;
 pub mod vision_model;