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@@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ See more details in our [blog post](https://blog.openai.com/better-language-mode
 
 Download the model data (needs [gsutil](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil_install)):
 ```
-mkdir models && gsutil rsync -r gs://gpt-2/models/ models/
+sh download_model.sh 117M
 ```
 
 Install python packages:
 ```
-pip install -r requirements.txt
+pip3 install -r requirements.txt
 ```
 
 ## Sample generation
diff --git a/download_model.sh b/download_model.sh
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@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+model=$1
+
+mkdir models/$model
+
+# TODO: gsutil rsync -r gs://gpt-2/models/ models/
+for filename in checkpoint encoder.json hparams.json model.ckpt.data-00000-of-00001 model.ckpt.index model.ckpt.meta vocab.bpe; do
+  gsutil cp gs://gpt-2/models/$model/$filename models/$model/
+done