diff --git a/script/app-mlperf-inference-mlcommons-python/_cm.yaml b/script/app-mlperf-inference-mlcommons-python/_cm.yaml
index 0576f6eca0..cdab0f7cd3 100644
--- a/script/app-mlperf-inference-mlcommons-python/_cm.yaml
+++ b/script/app-mlperf-inference-mlcommons-python/_cm.yaml
@@ -1018,6 +1018,7 @@ variations:
     group: models
     env:
       CM_MODEL: mixtral-8x7b
+      CM_ML_MODEL_STARTING_WEIGHTS_FILENAME: "https://github.com/anandhu-eng/cm4mlops/blob/5f156eb891b86a4ea7f1864075ddf1f1ade66598/script/get-ml-model-mixtral/_cm.json#L66"
     deps:
       - tags: get,rust-compiler
         names: