diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 4029f9918d62..51206308d5a8 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 [submodule "models/demos/t3000/llama2_70b/reference/llama"]
 	path = models/demos/t3000/llama2_70b/reference/llama
 	url = https://github.com/tenstorrent-metal/llama.git
+	branch = yieldthought/fix-rope-scaling-factor
 [submodule "tt_metal/third_party/tt_llk_blackhole"]
 	path = tt_metal/third_party/tt_llk_blackhole
 	url = https://github.com/tenstorrent/tt-llk-bh.git