diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e16f949db6..a837d87a1e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -62,10 +62,7 @@ half = { version = "2.5.0", features = [
     "use-intrinsics",
     "rand_distr",
 ] }
-float8 = { git = "https://github.com/zackangelo/float8", branch = "cudarc_0_16", features = [
-    "num-traits",
-    "rand_distr",
-] }
+float8 = { version = "0.3", features = ["num-traits", "rand_distr"] }
 hound = "3.5.1"
 image = { version = "0.25.2", default-features = false, features = [
     "jpeg",
@@ -82,7 +79,7 @@ parquet = { version = "51.0.0" }
 rand = "0.9.0"
 rand_distr = "0.5.1"
 rayon = "1.7.0"
-safetensors = "0.4.1"
+safetensors = "0.6"
 serde = { version = "1.0.171", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_plain = "1.0.2"
 serde_json = "1.0.99"
diff --git a/candle-core/src/safetensors.rs b/candle-core/src/safetensors.rs
index 7cd9d2e973..a238cc62d6 100644
--- a/candle-core/src/safetensors.rs
+++ b/candle-core/src/safetensors.rs
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ impl st::View for &Tensor {
 impl Tensor {
     pub fn save_safetensors<P: AsRef<Path>>(&self, name: &str, filename: P) -> Result<()> {
         let data = [(name, self.clone())];
-        Ok(st::serialize_to_file(data, &None, filename.as_ref())?)
+        Ok(st::serialize_to_file(data, None, filename.as_ref())?)
     }
 }
 
@@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ fn convert(view: &st::TensorView<'_>, device: &Device) -> Result<Tensor> {
         st::Dtype::F16 => convert_::<half::f16>(view, device),
         st::Dtype::F32 => convert_::<f32>(view, device),
         st::Dtype::F64 => convert_::<f64>(view, device),
+        st::Dtype::F8_E4M3 => convert_::<F8E4M3>(view, device),
         dtype => Err(Error::UnsupportedSafeTensorDtype(dtype)),
     }
 }
@@ -268,7 +269,7 @@ pub fn save<K: AsRef<str> + Ord + std::fmt::Display, P: AsRef<Path>>(
     tensors: &HashMap<K, Tensor>,
     filename: P,
 ) -> Result<()> {
-    Ok(st::serialize_to_file(tensors, &None, filename.as_ref())?)
+    Ok(st::serialize_to_file(tensors, None, filename.as_ref())?)
 }
 
 #[derive(yoke::Yokeable)]