diff --git a/examples/vit.py b/examples/vit.py
index 3ef0438992..b1ae3c1c99 100644
--- a/examples/vit.py
+++ b/examples/vit.py
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ dat = np.load(io.BytesIO(fetch("https://storage.googleapis.com/vit_models/augreg
 #for x in dat.keys():
 #  print(x, dat[x].shape, dat[x].dtype)
 
-m.conv_weight.assign(np.transpose(dat['embedding/kernel'], (3,2,0,1)))
-m.conv_bias.assign(dat['embedding/bias'])
+m.conv[0].assign(np.transpose(dat['embedding/kernel'], (3,2,0,1)))
+m.conv[1].assign(dat['embedding/bias'])
 
 m.norm[0].assign(dat['Transformer/encoder_norm/scale'])
 m.norm[1].assign(dat['Transformer/encoder_norm/bias'])
diff --git a/models/transformer.py b/models/transformer.py
index 289f49e9b8..1adf9bd979 100644
--- a/models/transformer.py
+++ b/models/transformer.py
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ class TransformerBlock:
     return x
 
 class Transformer:
-  # L = layers, H = embed_dim, A = num_heads
   def __init__(self, syms, maxlen, layers, embed_dim, num_heads, ff_dim):
     self.maxlen, self.syms = maxlen, syms
     self.embed = Tensor.uniform(maxlen+syms, embed_dim, requires_grad=False)
@@ -75,18 +74,16 @@ class Transformer:
     return x.reshape(shape=(bs, -1, x.shape[-1]))
 
 class ViT:
-  def __init__(self, embed_dim=192):
-    self.conv_weight = Tensor.uniform(embed_dim, 3, 16, 16)
-    self.conv_bias = Tensor.zeros(embed_dim)
+  def __init__(self, layers=12, embed_dim=192, num_heads=3):
+    self.conv = (Tensor.uniform(embed_dim, 3, 16, 16), Tensor.zeros(embed_dim))
     self.cls_token = Tensor.ones(1, 1, embed_dim)
-    self.tbs = [TransformerBlock(embed_dim=embed_dim, num_heads=3, ff_dim=768, prenorm=True) for i in range(12)]
     self.pos_embed = Tensor.ones(1, 197, embed_dim)
-    self.head = (Tensor.uniform(embed_dim, 1000), Tensor.zeros(1000))
+    self.tbs = [TransformerBlock(embed_dim=embed_dim, num_heads=num_heads, ff_dim=embed_dim*4, prenorm=True) for i in range(layers)]
     self.norm = (Tensor.uniform(embed_dim), Tensor.zeros(embed_dim))
+    self.head = (Tensor.uniform(embed_dim, 1000), Tensor.zeros(1000))
 
   def patch_embed(self, x):
-    x = x.conv2d(self.conv_weight, stride=16)
-    x = x.add(self.conv_bias.reshape(shape=(1,-1,1,1)))
+    x = x.conv2d(*self.conv, stride=16)
     x = x.reshape(shape=(x.shape[0], x.shape[1], -1)).transpose(order=(0,2,1))
     return x