diff --git a/.github/workflows/run-model-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/run-model-tests.yml
index ecb17405..e944cc93 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/run-model-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/run-model-tests.yml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         build: [
           {runs-on: n150, name: "run1", test_names: "stable_diffusion, Qwen, MobileNetV2, clip, flan_t5, mlpmixer, resnet, vilt, albert, codegen, glpn_kitti, mnist, resnet50, RMBG, unet_carvana, mgp-str-base, musicgen_small, segformer, torchvision, yolos"},
-          {runs-on: n150, name: "run2", test_names: "t5, whisper, autoencoder_conv, deit, gpt2, mobilenet_ssd, roberta, timm, xglm, autoencoder_linear, detr, beit, distilbert, hand_landmark, openpose, segment_anything, unet, yolov3, bert, dpr, hardnet, opt, speecht5_tts, unet_brain, yolov5, bloom, falcon, llama, perceiver_io, squeeze_bert, gpt_neo"},
+          {runs-on: n150, name: "run2", test_names: "t5, whisper, autoencoder_conv, deit, gpt2, mobilenet_ssd, roberta, timm, xglm, autoencoder_linear, detr, beit, distilbert, hand_landmark, openpose, segment_anything, unet, yolov3, bert, dpr, hardnet, opt, speecht5_tts, unet_brain, yolov5, bloom, falcon, llama, perceiver_io, squeeze_bert, gpt_neo, mamba"},
         ]
     runs-on:
       - ${{ matrix.build.runs-on }}
diff --git a/tests/models/mamba/test_mamba.py b/tests/models/mamba/test_mamba.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..70fa7fc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/models/mamba/test_mamba.py
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: (c) 2024 Tenstorrent AI ULC
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# Reference: https://huggingface.co/state-spaces/mamba-2.8b-hf
+
+from transformers import MambaForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, GenerationConfig
+import pytest
+from tests.utils import ModelTester
+import torch
+
+
+class ThisTester(ModelTester):
+    def _load_model(self):
+        model = MambaForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+            self.model_name, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16
+        )
+        self.tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
+            self.model_name, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16
+        )
+        return model.generate
+
+    def _load_inputs(self):
+        prompt = "Hey how are you doing?"
+        input_ids = self.tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt")["input_ids"]
+        generation_config = GenerationConfig(max_new_tokens=10)
+        arguments = {"input_ids": input_ids, "generation_config": generation_config}
+        return arguments
+
+    def set_model_eval(self, model):
+        return model
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "mode",
+    ["eval"],
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "model_name",
+    [
+        "state-spaces/mamba-790m-hf",
+        "state-spaces/mamba-2.8b-hf",
+        "state-spaces/mamba-1.4b-hf",
+        "state-spaces/mamba-370m-hf",
+    ],
+)
+@pytest.mark.xfail(
+    reason="Fails due to 'Attempt to trace forbidden callable', but we can still generate a graph"
+)
+def test_mamba(record_property, mode, model_name):
+    record_property("model_name", model_name)
+    record_property("mode", mode)
+
+    tester = ThisTester(model_name, mode)
+    results = tester.test_model()
+    if mode == "eval":
+        gen_text = tester.tokenizer.batch_decode(results)
+        print("Generated text: ", gen_text)
+
+    record_property("torch_ttnn", (tester, results))