diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/models.py b/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
index cc83840ba7..8848e95034 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
@@ -442,14 +442,7 @@ def load_model(
     if cfg.ddp and not load_in_8bit:
         model.to(f"cuda:{cfg.local_rank}")
 
-    if (
-        torch.cuda.device_count() > 1
-        and int(os.getenv("WORLD_SIZE", "1")) > 1
-        and (cfg.load_in_4bit)
-    ):
-        # llama is PROBABLY model parallelizable, but the default isn't that it is
-        # so let's only set it for the 4bit, see
-        # https://github.com/johnsmith0031/alpaca_lora_4bit/blob/08b3fca4a4a9e0d3945be1bab4529f100a428636/finetune.py#L130-L133
+    if torch.cuda.device_count() > 1 and int(os.getenv("WORLD_SIZE", "1")) == 1:
         setattr(model, "is_parallelizable", True)
         setattr(model, "model_parallel", True)