diff --git a/src/axolotl/models/mixtral/modeling_moe_mistral.py b/src/axolotl/models/mixtral/modeling_moe_mistral.py
index 6f1fb7a4a..6e1dc5b24 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/models/mixtral/modeling_moe_mistral.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/models/mixtral/modeling_moe_mistral.py
@@ -47,9 +47,11 @@ from transformers.utils import (
     replace_return_docstrings,
 )
 
-from ...monkeypatch.utils import get_cu_seqlens_from_pos_ids
+from ...monkeypatch.utils import get_cu_seqlens_from_pos_ids, set_module_name
 from .configuration_moe_mistral import MixtralConfig
 
+from xformers.ops import SwiGLU
+
 if is_flash_attn_2_available():
     from flash_attn import (
         flash_attn_func,
@@ -68,6 +70,61 @@ logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)
 _CONFIG_FOR_DOC = "MixtralConfig"
 
 
+def replace_mixtral_mlp_with_swiglu(model):
+    for name, module in model.named_modules():
+        if isinstance(module, FeedForward):
+            mlp = FusedMLP(
+                module.config,
+                module.gate_proj,
+                module.up_proj,
+                module.down_proj,
+            )
+            set_module_name(model, name, mlp)
+
+
+class FusedMLP(torch.nn.Module):
+    """
+    Fused MLP layer for incrementally improved training efficiency
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        config,
+        gate_proj: torch.nn.Linear,
+        up_proj: torch.nn.Linear,
+        down_proj: torch.nn.Linear,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.config = config
+        self.swiglu = SwiGLU(
+            in_features=config.hidden_size,
+            hidden_features=config.intermediate_size,
+            bias=False,
+            _pack_weights=True,
+        )
+        # overwrite initialized weights with pretrained weights
+        self.swiglu.w12.weight.data = torch.cat(
+            (gate_proj.weight.data, up_proj.weight.data), dim=0
+        )
+        self.swiglu.w3.weight.data = down_proj.weight.data
+
+    def _post_training(self, model, name):
+        w1, w2 = torch.split(  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
+            self.swiglu.w12.weight.data, self.config.intermediate_size, dim=0
+        )
+
+        # Assign the split weights back to the original layers
+        new_mlp = FeedForward(self.config)
+        new_mlp.w1.weight.data = w1
+        new_mlp.w2.weight.data = w2
+        new_mlp.w3.weight.data = self.swiglu.w3.weight.data
+
+        set_module_name(model, name, new_mlp)
+
+    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
+        return self.swiglu(x)
+
+
 # Copied from transformers.models.llama.modeling_llama._get_unpad_data
 def _get_unpad_data(attention_mask):
     seqlens_in_batch = attention_mask.sum(dim=-1, dtype=torch.int32)
diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/models.py b/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
index 8531cb251..84a4f6cf1 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
@@ -373,7 +373,10 @@ def load_model(
                 **model_kwargs,
             )
         elif model_type == "MixtralForCausalLM":
-            from axolotl.models.mixtral import MixtralForCausalLM
+            from axolotl.models.mixtral import (
+                MixtralForCausalLM,
+                replace_mixtral_mlp_with_swiglu
+            )
 
             model = MixtralForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
                 base_model,
@@ -381,6 +384,10 @@ def load_model(
                 load_in_4bit=cfg.load_in_4bit and cfg.adapter is not None,
                 **model_kwargs,
             )
+
+            LOG.info("Mixtral MoE: Replacing experts with SwiGLU")
+            replace_mixtral_mlp_with_swiglu(model)
+            
         elif model_type == "MambaLMHeadModel":
             # FIXME this is janky at best and hacked together to make it work
             MambaLMHeadModel = fix_mamba_attn_for_loss()  # pylint: disable=invalid-name