diff --git a/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp b/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp
index 3f11c301..0adf0316 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp
+++ b/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp
@@ -879,9 +879,15 @@ struct clip_graph {
         // add CLS token
         inp = ggml_concat(ctx0, inp, model.class_embedding, 1);
 
+        // The larger models use a different ViT, which uses RMS norm instead of layer norm
+        // ref: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/13443#issuecomment-2869786188
+        norm_type norm_t = (hparams.n_embd == 3200 && hparams.n_layer == 45)
+            ? NORM_TYPE_RMS // 6B ViT (Used by InternVL 2.5/3 - 26B, 38B, 78B)
+            : NORM_TYPE_NORMAL; // 300M ViT (Used by all smaller InternVL models)
+
         ggml_tensor * cur = build_vit(
                                 inp, n_pos,
-                                NORM_TYPE_NORMAL,
+                                norm_t,
                                 hparams.ffn_op,
                                 model.position_embeddings,
                                 nullptr);