diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 402c89c952..2b65959e20 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -105,3 +105,6 @@
 [submodule "deps/llama.cpp"]
 	path = deps/llama.cpp
 	url = https://github.com/shards-lang/llama.cpp.git
+[submodule "deps/mozjpeg"]
+	path = deps/mozjpeg
+	url = https://github.com/shards-lang/mozjpeg.git
diff --git a/deps/mozjpeg b/deps/mozjpeg
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000..9b8d11f05e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deps/mozjpeg
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 9b8d11f05e3ae4541ce5251f0e5c20c4cb8733b7