diff --git a/mlx_lm/tokenizer_utils.py b/mlx_lm/tokenizer_utils.py
index 4e11e811d..d33f70e67 100644
--- a/mlx_lm/tokenizer_utils.py
+++ b/mlx_lm/tokenizer_utils.py
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ def load(
     chat_template = None
 
     tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
-        model_path, **(tokenizer_config_extra or {})
+        model_path, fix_mistral_regex=True, **(tokenizer_config_extra or {})
     )
 
     tokenizer_config = tokenizer.init_kwargs