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 ## Safetensors
 
-[Safetensors](https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors) is a fast and safe persistence format for deep learning models. TGI supports `safetensors` model loading under the hood. By default, given a repository with `safetensors` and `pytorch` weights, TGI will always load `safetensors`. If there's no `pytorch` weights, TGI will convert the weights to `safetensors` format.
+[Safetensors](https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors) is a fast and safe persistence format for deep learning models, and is required for tensor parallelism. TGI supports `safetensors` model loading under the hood. By default, given a repository with `safetensors` and `pytorch` weights, TGI will always load `safetensors`. If there's no `pytorch` weights, TGI will convert the weights to `safetensors` format.