diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index bf3851db5..f1fc93b1d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -706,6 +706,8 @@ version = "0.3.3"
 source = "git+https://github.com/huggingface/candle.git#5270224f407502b82fe90bc2622894ce3871b002"
 dependencies = [
  "byteorder",
+ "candle-kernels",
+ "cudarc",
  "gemm",
  "half 2.3.1",
  "memmap2 0.9.3",
@@ -720,6 +722,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "zip",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "candle-kernels"
+version = "0.3.1"
+source = "git+https://github.com/huggingface/candle.git#f4fcf6090045ac44122fd5f0a7e46db6e3e16528"
+dependencies = [
+ "anyhow",
+ "glob",
+ "rayon",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "candle-nn"
 version = "0.3.3"
@@ -1163,6 +1175,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "memchr",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "cudarc"
+version = "0.9.15"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f1871a911a2b9a3f66a285896a719159985683bf9903aa2cf89e0c9f53e14552"
+dependencies = [
+ "half 2.3.1",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "darling"
 version = "0.14.4"
diff --git a/milli/Cargo.toml b/milli/Cargo.toml
index ec27b5f39..047a30e35 100644
--- a/milli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/milli/Cargo.toml
@@ -137,3 +137,6 @@ greek = ["charabia/greek"]
 
 # allow khmer specialized tokenization
 khmer = ["charabia/khmer"]
+
+# allow CUDA support
+cuda = ["candle-core/cuda"]
diff --git a/milli/src/vector/hf.rs b/milli/src/vector/hf.rs
index 0a6bcbe93..3a3949e77 100644
--- a/milli/src/vector/hf.rs
+++ b/milli/src/vector/hf.rs
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ impl std::fmt::Debug for Embedder {
 
 impl Embedder {
     pub fn new(options: EmbedderOptions) -> std::result::Result<Self, NewEmbedderError> {
-        let device = candle_core::Device::Cpu;
+        let device = candle_core::Device::cuda_if_available(0).unwrap();
         let repo = match options.revision.clone() {
             Some(revision) => Repo::with_revision(options.model.clone(), RepoType::Model, revision),
             None => Repo::model(options.model.clone()),