diff --git a/examples/llava/clip.cpp b/examples/llava/clip.cpp
index 98d512f67..1a02fde32 100644
--- a/examples/llava/clip.cpp
+++ b/examples/llava/clip.cpp
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ static ggml_cgraph * clip_image_build_graph(clip_ctx * ctx, const clip_image_f32
             KQV = ggml_reshape_4d(ctx0, KQV, d_head, num_positions, n_head, batch_size);
             KQV = ggml_cont(ctx0, ggml_permute(ctx0, KQV, 0, 2, 1, 3));
 
-            cur = ggml_cpy(ctx0, KQV, ggml_new_tensor_3d(ctx0, GGML_TYPE_F32, hidden_size, num_positions, batch_size));
+            cur = ggml_cont_3d(ctx0, KQV, hidden_size, num_positions, batch_size);
         }
 
         // attention output