diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b24caf8..5306a11 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Define the default target now so that it is always the first target
-BUILD_TARGETS = main quantize quantize-stats perplexity embedding vdot train-text-from-scratch
+BUILD_TARGETS = main quantize quantize-stats perplexity embedding vdot train-text-from-scratch simple
 
 ifdef LLAMA_BUILD_SERVER
 	BUILD_TARGETS += server
@@ -276,6 +276,12 @@ main: examples/main/main.cpp                                  build-info.h ggml.
 	@echo '====  Run ./main -h for help.  ===='
 	@echo
 
+simple: examples/simple/simple.cpp                            build-info.h ggml.o llama.o common.o $(OBJS)
+	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(filter-out %.h,$^) -o $@ $(LDFLAGS)
+	@echo
+	@echo '====  Run ./simple -h for help.  ===='
+	@echo
+
 quantize: examples/quantize/quantize.cpp                      build-info.h ggml.o llama.o $(OBJS)
 	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(filter-out %.h,$^) -o $@ $(LDFLAGS)
 
diff --git a/examples/simple/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/simple/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1568f73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/simple/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+set(TARGET simple)
+add_executable(${TARGET} simple.cpp)
+target_link_libraries(${TARGET} PRIVATE common llama ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT})
+target_compile_features(${TARGET} PRIVATE cxx_std_11)
+if(TARGET BUILD_INFO)
+  add_dependencies(${TARGET} BUILD_INFO)
+endif()
diff --git a/examples/simple/simple.cpp b/examples/simple/simple.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..76f991c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/simple/simple.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,177 @@
+#ifndef _GNU_SOURCE
+#define _GNU_SOURCE
+#endif
+
+#include "common.h"
+#include "llama.h"
+#include "build-info.h"
+
+#include <cassert>
+#include <cinttypes>
+#include <cmath>
+#include <cstdio>
+#include <cstring>
+#include <ctime>
+#include <fstream>
+#include <iostream>
+#include <string>
+#include <vector>
+
+#if defined (__unix__) || (defined (__APPLE__) && defined (__MACH__))
+#include <signal.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#elif defined (_WIN32)
+#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
+#define NOMINMAX
+#include <windows.h>
+#include <signal.h>
+#endif
+
+
+
+int main(int argc, char ** argv)
+{
+    gpt_params params;
+
+    //---------------------------------
+    // Print help :
+    //---------------------------------
+
+    if ( argc == 1 || argv[1][0] == '-' )
+    {
+        printf( "usage: %s MODEL_PATH [PROMPT]\n" , argv[0] );
+        return 1 ;
+    }
+
+    //---------------------------------
+    // Load parameters :
+    //---------------------------------
+
+    if ( argc >= 2 )
+    {
+        params.model = argv[1];
+    }
+
+    if ( argc >= 3 )
+    {
+        params.prompt = argv[2];
+    }
+
+    if ( params.prompt.empty() )
+    {
+        params.prompt = "Hello my name is";
+    }
+
+    //---------------------------------
+    // Init LLM :
+    //---------------------------------
+
+    llama_init_backend();
+
+    llama_context * ctx ;
+
+    ctx = llama_init_from_gpt_params( params );
+
+    if ( ctx == NULL )
+    {
+        fprintf( stderr , "%s: error: unable to load model\n" , __func__ );
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    //---------------------------------
+    // Tokenize the prompt :
+    //---------------------------------
+
+    std::vector<llama_token> tokens_list;
+    tokens_list = ::llama_tokenize( ctx , params.prompt , true );
+
+    const int max_context_size     = llama_n_ctx( ctx );
+    const int max_tokens_list_size = max_context_size - 4 ;
+
+    if ( (int)tokens_list.size() > max_tokens_list_size )
+    {
+        fprintf( stderr , "%s: error: prompt too long (%d tokens, max %d)\n" ,
+             __func__ , (int)tokens_list.size() , max_tokens_list_size );
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    fprintf( stderr, "\n\n" );
+
+    // Print the tokens from the prompt :
+
+    for( auto id : tokens_list )
+    {
+        printf( "%s" , llama_token_to_str( ctx , id ) );
+    }
+
+    fflush(stdout);
+
+
+    //---------------------------------
+    // Main prediction loop :
+    //---------------------------------
+
+    // The LLM keeps a contextual cache memory of previous token evaluation.
+    // Usually, once this cache is full, it is required to recompute a compressed context based on previous
+    // tokens (see "infinite text generation via context swapping" in the main example), but in this minimalist
+    // example, we will just stop the loop once this cache is full or once an end of stream is detected.
+
+    while ( llama_get_kv_cache_token_count( ctx ) < max_context_size )
+    {
+        //---------------------------------
+        // Evaluate the tokens :
+        //---------------------------------
+
+        if ( llama_eval( ctx , tokens_list.data() , tokens_list.size() , llama_get_kv_cache_token_count( ctx ) , params.n_threads ) )
+        {
+            fprintf( stderr,  "%s : failed to eval\n" , __func__ );
+            return 1;
+        }
+
+        tokens_list.clear();
+
+        //---------------------------------
+        // Select the best prediction :
+        //---------------------------------
+
+        llama_token new_token_id = 0;
+
+        auto logits  = llama_get_logits( ctx );
+        auto n_vocab = llama_n_vocab( ctx ); // the size of the LLM vocabulary (in tokens)
+
+        std::vector<llama_token_data> candidates;
+        candidates.reserve( n_vocab );
+
+        for( llama_token token_id = 0 ; token_id < n_vocab ; token_id++ )
+        {
+            candidates.emplace_back( llama_token_data{ token_id , logits[ token_id ] , 0.0f } );
+        }
+
+        llama_token_data_array candidates_p = { candidates.data(), candidates.size(), false };
+
+        // Select it using the "Greedy sampling" method :
+        new_token_id = llama_sample_token_greedy( ctx , &candidates_p );
+
+
+        // is it an end of stream ?
+        if ( new_token_id == llama_token_eos() )
+        {
+            fprintf(stderr, " [end of text]\n");
+            break;
+        }
+
+        // Print the new token :
+        printf( "%s" , llama_token_to_str( ctx , new_token_id ) );
+        fflush( stdout );
+
+        // Push this new token for next evaluation :
+        tokens_list.push_back( new_token_id );
+
+    } // wend of main loop
+
+    llama_free( ctx );
+
+    return 0;
+}
+
+// EOF