diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9d8d3e957db..b5d471565c7 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -30,15 +30,9 @@ BERT_VERSION?=6abe312cded14042f6b7c3cd8edf082713334a4d
 # go-piper version
 PIPER_VERSION?=56b8a81b4760a6fbee1a82e62f007ae7e8f010a7
 
-# go-bloomz version
-BLOOMZ_VERSION?=1834e77b83faafe912ad4092ccf7f77937349e2f
-
 # stablediffusion version
 STABLEDIFFUSION_VERSION?=d89260f598afb809279bc72aa0107b4292587632
 
-# Go-ggllm
-GOGGLLM_VERSION?=862477d16eefb0805261c19c9b0d053e3b2b684b
-
 export BUILD_TYPE?=
 export STABLE_BUILD_TYPE?=$(BUILD_TYPE)
 export CMAKE_ARGS?=
@@ -129,7 +123,7 @@ ifeq ($(findstring tts,$(GO_TAGS)),tts)
 	OPTIONAL_GRPC+=backend-assets/grpc/piper
 endif
 
-ALL_GRPC_BACKENDS=backend-assets/grpc/langchain-huggingface backend-assets/grpc/falcon-ggml backend-assets/grpc/bert-embeddings backend-assets/grpc/falcon backend-assets/grpc/bloomz backend-assets/grpc/llama backend-assets/grpc/llama-cpp backend-assets/grpc/llama-stable backend-assets/grpc/gpt4all backend-assets/grpc/dolly backend-assets/grpc/gpt2 backend-assets/grpc/gptj backend-assets/grpc/gptneox backend-assets/grpc/mpt backend-assets/grpc/replit backend-assets/grpc/starcoder backend-assets/grpc/rwkv backend-assets/grpc/whisper $(OPTIONAL_GRPC)
+ALL_GRPC_BACKENDS=backend-assets/grpc/langchain-huggingface backend-assets/grpc/falcon-ggml backend-assets/grpc/bert-embeddings backend-assets/grpc/llama backend-assets/grpc/llama-cpp backend-assets/grpc/llama-stable backend-assets/grpc/gpt4all backend-assets/grpc/dolly backend-assets/grpc/gpt2 backend-assets/grpc/gptj backend-assets/grpc/gptneox backend-assets/grpc/mpt backend-assets/grpc/replit backend-assets/grpc/starcoder backend-assets/grpc/rwkv backend-assets/grpc/whisper $(OPTIONAL_GRPC)
 GRPC_BACKENDS?=$(ALL_GRPC_BACKENDS) $(OPTIONAL_GRPC)
 
 # If empty, then we build all
@@ -146,14 +140,6 @@ gpt4all:
 	git clone --recurse-submodules $(GPT4ALL_REPO) gpt4all
 	cd gpt4all && git checkout -b build $(GPT4ALL_VERSION) && git submodule update --init --recursive --depth 1
 
-## go-ggllm
-go-ggllm:
-	git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/mudler/go-ggllm.cpp go-ggllm
-	cd go-ggllm && git checkout -b build $(GOGGLLM_VERSION) && git submodule update --init --recursive --depth 1
-
-go-ggllm/libggllm.a: go-ggllm
-	$(MAKE) -C go-ggllm BUILD_TYPE=$(BUILD_TYPE) libggllm.a
-
 ## go-piper
 go-piper:
 	git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/mudler/go-piper go-piper
@@ -180,14 +166,6 @@ go-rwkv:
 go-rwkv/librwkv.a: go-rwkv
 	cd go-rwkv && cd rwkv.cpp &&	cmake . -DRWKV_BUILD_SHARED_LIBRARY=OFF &&	cmake --build . && 	cp librwkv.a ..
 
-## bloomz
-bloomz:
-	git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/go-skynet/bloomz.cpp bloomz
-	cd bloomz && git checkout -b build $(BLOOMZ_VERSION) && git submodule update --init --recursive --depth 1
-
-bloomz/libbloomz.a: bloomz
-	cd bloomz && make libbloomz.a
-
 go-bert/libgobert.a: go-bert
 	$(MAKE) -C go-bert libgobert.a
 
@@ -241,7 +219,7 @@ go-llama-stable/libbinding.a: go-llama-stable
 go-piper/libpiper_binding.a: go-piper
 	$(MAKE) -C go-piper libpiper_binding.a example/main
 
-get-sources: go-llama go-llama-stable go-ggllm go-ggml-transformers gpt4all go-piper go-rwkv whisper.cpp go-bert bloomz go-stable-diffusion
+get-sources: go-llama go-llama-stable go-ggml-transformers gpt4all go-piper go-rwkv whisper.cpp go-bert go-stable-diffusion
 	touch $@
 
 replace:
@@ -250,10 +228,8 @@ replace:
 	$(GOCMD) mod edit -replace github.com/donomii/go-rwkv.cpp=$(shell pwd)/go-rwkv
 	$(GOCMD) mod edit -replace github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp=$(shell pwd)/whisper.cpp
 	$(GOCMD) mod edit -replace github.com/go-skynet/go-bert.cpp=$(shell pwd)/go-bert
-	$(GOCMD) mod edit -replace github.com/go-skynet/bloomz.cpp=$(shell pwd)/bloomz
 	$(GOCMD) mod edit -replace github.com/mudler/go-stable-diffusion=$(shell pwd)/go-stable-diffusion
 	$(GOCMD) mod edit -replace github.com/mudler/go-piper=$(shell pwd)/go-piper
-	$(GOCMD) mod edit -replace github.com/mudler/go-ggllm.cpp=$(shell pwd)/go-ggllm
 
 prepare-sources: get-sources replace
 	$(GOCMD) mod download
@@ -269,9 +245,7 @@ rebuild: ## Rebuilds the project
 	$(MAKE) -C whisper.cpp clean
 	$(MAKE) -C go-stable-diffusion clean
 	$(MAKE) -C go-bert clean
-	$(MAKE) -C bloomz clean
 	$(MAKE) -C go-piper clean
-	$(MAKE) -C go-ggllm clean
 	$(MAKE) build
 
 prepare: prepare-sources $(OPTIONAL_TARGETS)
@@ -289,10 +263,8 @@ clean: ## Remove build related file
 	rm -rf ./backend-assets
 	rm -rf ./go-rwkv
 	rm -rf ./go-bert
-	rm -rf ./bloomz
 	rm -rf ./whisper.cpp
 	rm -rf ./go-piper
-	rm -rf ./go-ggllm
 	rm -rf $(BINARY_NAME)
 	rm -rf release/
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/cpp/llama clean
@@ -418,10 +390,6 @@ protogen-python:
 backend-assets/grpc:
 	mkdir -p backend-assets/grpc
 
-backend-assets/grpc/falcon: backend-assets/grpc go-ggllm/libggllm.a
-	CGO_LDFLAGS="$(CGO_LDFLAGS)" C_INCLUDE_PATH=$(shell pwd)/go-ggllm LIBRARY_PATH=$(shell pwd)/go-ggllm \
-	$(GOCMD) build -ldflags "$(LD_FLAGS)" -tags "$(GO_TAGS)" -o backend-assets/grpc/falcon ./cmd/grpc/falcon/
-
 backend-assets/grpc/llama: backend-assets/grpc go-llama/libbinding.a
 	$(GOCMD) mod edit -replace github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp=$(shell pwd)/go-llama
 	CGO_LDFLAGS="$(CGO_LDFLAGS)" C_INCLUDE_PATH=$(shell pwd)/go-llama LIBRARY_PATH=$(shell pwd)/go-llama \
@@ -486,10 +454,6 @@ backend-assets/grpc/rwkv: backend-assets/grpc go-rwkv/librwkv.a
 	CGO_LDFLAGS="$(CGO_LDFLAGS)" C_INCLUDE_PATH=$(shell pwd)/go-rwkv LIBRARY_PATH=$(shell pwd)/go-rwkv \
 	$(GOCMD) build -ldflags "$(LD_FLAGS)" -tags "$(GO_TAGS)" -o backend-assets/grpc/rwkv ./cmd/grpc/rwkv/
 
-backend-assets/grpc/bloomz: backend-assets/grpc bloomz/libbloomz.a
-	CGO_LDFLAGS="$(CGO_LDFLAGS)" C_INCLUDE_PATH=$(shell pwd)/bloomz LIBRARY_PATH=$(shell pwd)/bloomz \
-	$(GOCMD) build -ldflags "$(LD_FLAGS)" -tags "$(GO_TAGS)" -o backend-assets/grpc/bloomz ./cmd/grpc/bloomz/
-
 backend-assets/grpc/bert-embeddings: backend-assets/grpc go-bert/libgobert.a
 	CGO_LDFLAGS="$(CGO_LDFLAGS)" C_INCLUDE_PATH=$(shell pwd)/go-bert LIBRARY_PATH=$(shell pwd)/go-bert \
 	$(GOCMD) build -ldflags "$(LD_FLAGS)" -tags "$(GO_TAGS)" -o backend-assets/grpc/bert-embeddings ./cmd/grpc/bert-embeddings/
diff --git a/cmd/grpc/bloomz/main.go b/cmd/grpc/bloomz/main.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 8d6303ba395..00000000000
--- a/cmd/grpc/bloomz/main.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-// Note: this is started internally by LocalAI and a server is allocated for each model
-
-import (
-	"flag"
-
-	bloomz "github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pkg/backend/llm/bloomz"
-
-	grpc "github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pkg/grpc"
-)
-
-var (
-	addr = flag.String("addr", "localhost:50051", "the address to connect to")
-)
-
-func main() {
-	flag.Parse()
-
-	if err := grpc.StartServer(*addr, &bloomz.LLM{}); err != nil {
-		panic(err)
-	}
-}
diff --git a/cmd/grpc/falcon/main.go b/cmd/grpc/falcon/main.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ddf6236af2..00000000000
--- a/cmd/grpc/falcon/main.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-// GRPC Falcon server
-
-// Note: this is started internally by LocalAI and a server is allocated for each model
-
-import (
-	"flag"
-
-	falcon "github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pkg/backend/llm/falcon"
-
-	grpc "github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pkg/grpc"
-)
-
-var (
-	addr = flag.String("addr", "localhost:50051", "the address to connect to")
-)
-
-func main() {
-	flag.Parse()
-
-	if err := grpc.StartServer(*addr, &falcon.LLM{}); err != nil {
-		panic(err)
-	}
-}
diff --git a/pkg/backend/llm/bloomz/bloomz.go b/pkg/backend/llm/bloomz/bloomz.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 0775c77d153..00000000000
--- a/pkg/backend/llm/bloomz/bloomz.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-package bloomz
-
-// 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/LocalAI/pkg/grpc/base"
-	pb "github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pkg/grpc/proto"
-
-	"github.com/go-skynet/bloomz.cpp"
-)
-
-type LLM struct {
-	base.SingleThread
-
-	bloomz *bloomz.Bloomz
-}
-
-func (llm *LLM) Load(opts *pb.ModelOptions) error {
-	model, err := bloomz.New(opts.ModelFile)
-	llm.bloomz = model
-	return err
-}
-
-func buildPredictOptions(opts *pb.PredictOptions) []bloomz.PredictOption {
-	predictOptions := []bloomz.PredictOption{
-		bloomz.SetTemperature(float64(opts.Temperature)),
-		bloomz.SetTopP(float64(opts.TopP)),
-		bloomz.SetTopK(int(opts.TopK)),
-		bloomz.SetTokens(int(opts.Tokens)),
-		bloomz.SetThreads(int(opts.Threads)),
-	}
-
-	if opts.Seed != 0 {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, bloomz.SetSeed(int(opts.Seed)))
-	}
-
-	return predictOptions
-}
-
-func (llm *LLM) Predict(opts *pb.PredictOptions) (string, error) {
-	return llm.bloomz.Predict(opts.Prompt, buildPredictOptions(opts)...)
-}
-
-// fallback to Predict
-func (llm *LLM) PredictStream(opts *pb.PredictOptions, results chan string) error {
-	go func() {
-		res, err := llm.bloomz.Predict(opts.Prompt, buildPredictOptions(opts)...)
-
-		if err != nil {
-			fmt.Println("err: ", err)
-		}
-		results <- res
-		close(results)
-	}()
-
-	return nil
-}
diff --git a/pkg/backend/llm/falcon/falcon.go b/pkg/backend/llm/falcon/falcon.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 4b96b71f333..00000000000
--- a/pkg/backend/llm/falcon/falcon.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,145 +0,0 @@
-package falcon
-
-// 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/LocalAI/pkg/grpc/base"
-	pb "github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pkg/grpc/proto"
-
-	ggllm "github.com/mudler/go-ggllm.cpp"
-)
-
-type LLM struct {
-	base.SingleThread
-
-	falcon *ggllm.Falcon
-}
-
-func (llm *LLM) Load(opts *pb.ModelOptions) error {
-	ggllmOpts := []ggllm.ModelOption{}
-	if opts.ContextSize != 0 {
-		ggllmOpts = append(ggllmOpts, ggllm.SetContext(int(opts.ContextSize)))
-	}
-	// F16 doesn't seem to produce good output at all!
-	//if c.F16 {
-	//	llamaOpts = append(llamaOpts, llama.EnableF16Memory)
-	//}
-
-	if opts.NGPULayers != 0 {
-		ggllmOpts = append(ggllmOpts, ggllm.SetGPULayers(int(opts.NGPULayers)))
-	}
-
-	ggllmOpts = append(ggllmOpts, ggllm.SetMMap(opts.MMap))
-	ggllmOpts = append(ggllmOpts, ggllm.SetMainGPU(opts.MainGPU))
-	ggllmOpts = append(ggllmOpts, ggllm.SetTensorSplit(opts.TensorSplit))
-	if opts.NBatch != 0 {
-		ggllmOpts = append(ggllmOpts, ggllm.SetNBatch(int(opts.NBatch)))
-	} else {
-		ggllmOpts = append(ggllmOpts, ggllm.SetNBatch(512))
-	}
-
-	model, err := ggllm.New(opts.ModelFile, ggllmOpts...)
-	llm.falcon = model
-	return err
-}
-
-func buildPredictOptions(opts *pb.PredictOptions) []ggllm.PredictOption {
-	predictOptions := []ggllm.PredictOption{
-		ggllm.SetTemperature(float64(opts.Temperature)),
-		ggllm.SetTopP(float64(opts.TopP)),
-		ggllm.SetTopK(int(opts.TopK)),
-		ggllm.SetTokens(int(opts.Tokens)),
-		ggllm.SetThreads(int(opts.Threads)),
-	}
-
-	if opts.PromptCacheAll {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, ggllm.EnablePromptCacheAll)
-	}
-
-	if opts.PromptCacheRO {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, ggllm.EnablePromptCacheRO)
-	}
-
-	// Expected absolute path
-	if opts.PromptCachePath != "" {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, ggllm.SetPathPromptCache(opts.PromptCachePath))
-	}
-
-	if opts.Mirostat != 0 {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, ggllm.SetMirostat(int(opts.Mirostat)))
-	}
-
-	if opts.MirostatETA != 0 {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, ggllm.SetMirostatETA(float64(opts.MirostatETA)))
-	}
-
-	if opts.MirostatTAU != 0 {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, ggllm.SetMirostatTAU(float64(opts.MirostatTAU)))
-	}
-
-	if opts.Debug {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, ggllm.Debug)
-	}
-
-	predictOptions = append(predictOptions, ggllm.SetStopWords(opts.StopPrompts...))
-
-	if opts.PresencePenalty != 0 {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, ggllm.SetPenalty(float64(opts.PresencePenalty)))
-	}
-
-	if opts.NKeep != 0 {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, ggllm.SetNKeep(int(opts.NKeep)))
-	}
-
-	if opts.Batch != 0 {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, ggllm.SetBatch(int(opts.Batch)))
-	}
-
-	if opts.IgnoreEOS {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, ggllm.IgnoreEOS)
-	}
-
-	if opts.Seed != 0 {
-		predictOptions = append(predictOptions, ggllm.SetSeed(int(opts.Seed)))
-	}
-
-	//predictOptions = append(predictOptions, llama.SetLogitBias(c.Seed))
-
-	predictOptions = append(predictOptions, ggllm.SetFrequencyPenalty(float64(opts.FrequencyPenalty)))
-	predictOptions = append(predictOptions, ggllm.SetMlock(opts.MLock))
-	predictOptions = append(predictOptions, ggllm.SetMemoryMap(opts.MMap))
-	predictOptions = append(predictOptions, ggllm.SetPredictionMainGPU(opts.MainGPU))
-	predictOptions = append(predictOptions, ggllm.SetPredictionTensorSplit(opts.TensorSplit))
-	predictOptions = append(predictOptions, ggllm.SetTailFreeSamplingZ(float64(opts.TailFreeSamplingZ)))
-	predictOptions = append(predictOptions, ggllm.SetTypicalP(float64(opts.TypicalP)))
-	return predictOptions
-}
-
-func (llm *LLM) Predict(opts *pb.PredictOptions) (string, error) {
-	return llm.falcon.Predict(opts.Prompt, buildPredictOptions(opts)...)
-}
-
-func (llm *LLM) PredictStream(opts *pb.PredictOptions, results chan string) error {
-
-	predictOptions := buildPredictOptions(opts)
-
-	predictOptions = append(predictOptions, ggllm.SetTokenCallback(func(token string) bool {
-		if token == "<|endoftext|>" {
-			return true
-		}
-		results <- token
-		return true
-	}))
-
-	go func() {
-		_, err := llm.falcon.Predict(opts.Prompt, predictOptions...)
-		if err != nil {
-			fmt.Println("err: ", err)
-		}
-		close(results)
-	}()
-
-	return nil
-}
diff --git a/pkg/model/initializers.go b/pkg/model/initializers.go
index 5ad9500ba14..fbc4746b6de 100644
--- a/pkg/model/initializers.go
+++ b/pkg/model/initializers.go
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ const (
 	LlamaBackend        = "llama"
 	LlamaStableBackend  = "llama-stable"
 	LLamaCPP            = "llama-cpp"
-	BloomzBackend       = "bloomz"
 	StarcoderBackend    = "starcoder"
 	GPTJBackend         = "gptj"
 	DollyBackend        = "dolly"
@@ -30,7 +29,6 @@ const (
 	Gpt4AllMptBackend   = "gpt4all-mpt"
 	Gpt4AllJBackend     = "gpt4all-j"
 	Gpt4All             = "gpt4all"
-	FalconBackend       = "falcon"
 	FalconGGMLBackend   = "falcon-ggml"
 
 	BertEmbeddingsBackend  = "bert-embeddings"
@@ -46,7 +44,6 @@ var AutoLoadBackends []string = []string{
 	LlamaStableBackend,
 	LlamaBackend,
 	Gpt4All,
-	FalconBackend,
 	GPTNeoXBackend,
 	BertEmbeddingsBackend,
 	FalconGGMLBackend,
@@ -56,7 +53,6 @@ var AutoLoadBackends []string = []string{
 	MPTBackend,
 	ReplitBackend,
 	StarcoderBackend,
-	BloomzBackend,
 	RwkvBackend,
 	WhisperBackend,
 	StableDiffusionBackend,