diff --git a/src/transformers/modeling_tf_pytorch_utils.py b/src/transformers/modeling_tf_pytorch_utils.py
index a1663796dec2..163178929f98 100644
--- a/src/transformers/modeling_tf_pytorch_utils.py
+++ b/src/transformers/modeling_tf_pytorch_utils.py
@@ -249,7 +249,10 @@ def load_pytorch_weights_in_tf2_model(
         )
         raise
 
-    pt_state_dict = {k: v.numpy() for k, v in pt_state_dict.items()}
+    # Numpy doesn't understand bfloat16, so upcast to a dtype that doesn't lose precision
+    pt_state_dict = {
+        k: v.numpy() if v.dtype != torch.bfloat16 else v.float().numpy() for k, v in pt_state_dict.items()
+    }
     return load_pytorch_state_dict_in_tf2_model(
         tf_model,
         pt_state_dict,
diff --git a/tests/test_modeling_tf_utils.py b/tests/test_modeling_tf_utils.py
index ff11a8a556bb..8a281761333d 100644
--- a/tests/test_modeling_tf_utils.py
+++ b/tests/test_modeling_tf_utils.py
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
         PreTrainedModel,
         PushToHubCallback,
         RagRetriever,
+        TFAutoModel,
         TFBertForMaskedLM,
         TFBertForSequenceClassification,
         TFBertModel,
@@ -435,6 +436,16 @@ def test_safetensors_checkpoint_sharding_local(self):
                 for p1, p2 in zip(model.weights, new_model.weights):
                     self.assertTrue(np.allclose(p1.numpy(), p2.numpy()))
 
+    @is_pt_tf_cross_test
+    @require_safetensors
+    def test_bfloat16_torch_loading(self):
+        # Assert that neither of these raise an error - both repos contain bfloat16 tensors
+        model1 = TFAutoModel.from_pretrained("Rocketknight1/tiny-random-gpt2-bfloat16-pt", from_pt=True)
+        model2 = TFAutoModel.from_pretrained("Rocketknight1/tiny-random-gpt2-bfloat16")  # PT-format safetensors
+        # Check that PT and safetensors loading paths end up with the same values
+        for weight1, weight2 in zip(model1.weights, model2.weights):
+            self.assertTrue(tf.reduce_all(weight1 == weight2))
+
     @slow
     def test_save_pretrained_signatures(self):
         model = TFBertModel.from_pretrained("hf-internal-testing/tiny-random-bert")