diff --git a/openllm-python/src/openllm/serialisation/transformers/weights.py b/openllm-python/src/openllm/serialisation/transformers/weights.py
index bda9fa7c..d97e8a5d 100644
--- a/openllm-python/src/openllm/serialisation/transformers/weights.py
+++ b/openllm-python/src/openllm/serialisation/transformers/weights.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
-import attr, traceback, pathlib, typing as t
+import attr, traceback, functools, pathlib, typing as t
 from huggingface_hub import HfApi
 from openllm_core.exceptions import Error
 from openllm_core.utils import resolve_filepath, validate_is_path
@@ -27,10 +27,13 @@ def ModelInfo(model_id: str, revision: str | None = None) -> HfModelInfo:
     traceback.print_exc()
     raise Error(f'Failed to fetch {model_id} from huggingface.co') from err
 
-def has_safetensors_weights(model_id: str, revision: str | None = None) -> bool:
+def has_weights(model_id: str, revision: str | None = None, *, extensions: str) -> bool:
   if validate_is_path(model_id):
-    return next((True for _ in pathlib.Path(resolve_filepath(model_id)).glob('*.safetensors')), False)
-  return any(s.rfilename.endswith('.safetensors') for s in ModelInfo(model_id, revision=revision).siblings)
+    return next((True for _ in pathlib.Path(resolve_filepath(model_id)).glob(f'*.{extensions}')), False)
+  return any(s.rfilename.endswith(f'.{extensions}') for s in ModelInfo(model_id, revision=revision).siblings)
+
+has_safetensors_weights = functools.partial(has_weights, extensions='safetensors')
+has_pt_weights = functools.partial(has_weights, extensions='pt')
 
 @attr.define(slots=True)
 class HfIgnore:
@@ -43,8 +46,10 @@ class HfIgnore:
   def ignore_patterns(cls, llm: openllm.LLM[t.Any, t.Any]) -> list[str]:
     if llm.__llm_backend__ in {'vllm', 'pt'}:
       base = [cls.tf, cls.flax, cls.gguf]
-      if has_safetensors_weights(llm.model_id):
-        base.append(cls.pt)
+      if llm.config['architecture'] == 'MixtralForCausalLM': # XXX: Hack for Mixtral as safetensors is yet to be working atm
+        base.append(cls.safetensors)
+      elif has_safetensors_weights(llm.model_id):
+        base.extend([cls.pt, '*.pt'])
       else:
         base.append(cls.safetensors)
     elif llm.__llm_backend__ == 'ggml':