diff --git a/scripts/download_models.py b/cutie/utils/download_models.py
similarity index 76%
rename from scripts/download_models.py
rename to cutie/utils/download_models.py
index a11ab12..fadb578 100644
--- a/scripts/download_models.py
+++ b/cutie/utils/download_models.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import requests
 import hashlib
 from tqdm import tqdm
+import torch
 
 
 _links = [
@@ -10,17 +11,18 @@
 ]
 
 def download_models_if_needed():
-    os.makedirs('weights', exist_ok=True)
+    weight_dir = os.path.join(torch.hub.get_dir(), 'weights')
+    os.makedirs(weight_dir, exist_ok=True)
     for link, md5 in _links:
         # download file if not exists with a progressbar
         filename = link.split('/')[-1]
-        if not os.path.exists(os.path.join('weights', filename)) or hashlib.md5(open(os.path.join('weights', filename), 'rb').read()).hexdigest() != md5:
+        if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(weight_dir, filename)) or hashlib.md5(open(os.path.join(weight_dir, filename), 'rb').read()).hexdigest() != md5:
             print(f'Downloading {filename}...')
             r = requests.get(link, stream=True)
             total_size = int(r.headers.get('content-length', 0))
             block_size = 1024
             t = tqdm(total=total_size, unit='iB', unit_scale=True)
-            with open(os.path.join('weights', filename), 'wb') as f:
+            with open(os.path.join(weight_dir, filename), 'wb') as f:
                 for data in r.iter_content(block_size):
                     t.update(len(data))
                     f.write(data)
diff --git a/cutie/utils/get_default_model.py b/cutie/utils/get_default_model.py
index bf61e3f..a3cba5d 100644
--- a/cutie/utils/get_default_model.py
+++ b/cutie/utils/get_default_model.py
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 """
 A helper function to get a default model for quick testing
 """
+import os
 from omegaconf import open_dict
 from hydra import compose, initialize
 
 import torch
 from cutie.model.cutie import CUTIE
 from cutie.inference.utils.args_utils import get_dataset_cfg
-from scripts.download_models import download_models_if_needed
+from cutie.utils.download_models import download_models_if_needed
 
 
 def get_default_model() -> CUTIE:
@@ -16,7 +17,7 @@ def get_default_model() -> CUTIE:
 
     download_models_if_needed()
     with open_dict(cfg):
-        cfg['weights'] = './weights/cutie-base-mega.pth'
+        cfg['weights'] = os.path.join(torch.hub.get_dir(), 'weights', 'cutie-base-mega.pth')
     get_dataset_cfg(cfg)
 
     # Load the network weights
diff --git a/gui/main_controller.py b/gui/main_controller.py
index 3be3e66..be06426 100644
--- a/gui/main_controller.py
+++ b/gui/main_controller.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 from gui.click_controller import ClickController
 from gui.reader import PropagationReader, get_data_loader
 from gui.exporter import convert_frames_to_video, convert_mask_to_binary
-from scripts.download_models import download_models_if_needed
+from cutie.utils.download_models import download_models_if_needed
 
 log = logging.getLogger()