diff --git a/tooling/pipeline/runpod/.dockerignore b/tooling/pipeline/runpod/.dockerignore
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+# Ignore model files!
+*.gguf
+*.bin
+models/
+weights/
+
+# Ignore local build folders
+build/
+.git/