diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-extra.yml b/.github/workflows/test-extra.yml
index eacd3ab0..e99ea516 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-extra.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-extra.yml
@@ -35,30 +35,6 @@ jobs:
         run: |
            make --jobs=5 --output-sync=target -C backend/python/transformers
            make --jobs=5 --output-sync=target -C backend/python/transformers test
-
-  tests-sentencetransformers:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          submodules: true
-      - name: Dependencies
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install build-essential ffmpeg
-          # Install UV
-          curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
-          sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates cmake curl patch python3-pip
-          sudo apt-get install -y libopencv-dev
-          pip install --user --no-cache-dir grpcio-tools==1.64.1
-
-      - name: Test sentencetransformers
-        run: |
-           make --jobs=5 --output-sync=target -C backend/python/sentencetransformers
-           make --jobs=5 --output-sync=target -C backend/python/sentencetransformers test
-
-
   tests-rerankers:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index ecef0569..0ee93afa 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -100,8 +100,7 @@ jobs:
           # The python3-grpc-tools package in 22.04 is too old
           pip install --user grpcio-tools
 
-          sudo rm -rfv /usr/bin/conda || true
-          PATH=$PATH:/opt/conda/bin make -C backend/python/sentencetransformers
+          make -C backend/python/transformers
 
           # Pre-build piper before we start tests in order to have shared libraries in place
           make sources/go-piper && \
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 9fb07516..4ddc921d 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ ARG TARGETARCH
 ARG TARGETVARIANT
 
 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
-ENV EXTERNAL_GRPC_BACKENDS="coqui:/build/backend/python/coqui/run.sh,huggingface-embeddings:/build/backend/python/sentencetransformers/run.sh,transformers:/build/backend/python/transformers/run.sh,sentencetransformers:/build/backend/python/sentencetransformers/run.sh,rerankers:/build/backend/python/rerankers/run.sh,autogptq:/build/backend/python/autogptq/run.sh,bark:/build/backend/python/bark/run.sh,diffusers:/build/backend/python/diffusers/run.sh,openvoice:/build/backend/python/openvoice/run.sh,kokoro:/build/backend/python/kokoro/run.sh,vllm:/build/backend/python/vllm/run.sh,mamba:/build/backend/python/mamba/run.sh,exllama2:/build/backend/python/exllama2/run.sh,parler-tts:/build/backend/python/parler-tts/run.sh"
+ENV EXTERNAL_GRPC_BACKENDS="coqui:/build/backend/python/coqui/run.sh,transformers:/build/backend/python/transformers/run.sh,rerankers:/build/backend/python/rerankers/run.sh,autogptq:/build/backend/python/autogptq/run.sh,bark:/build/backend/python/bark/run.sh,diffusers:/build/backend/python/diffusers/run.sh,openvoice:/build/backend/python/openvoice/run.sh,kokoro:/build/backend/python/kokoro/run.sh,vllm:/build/backend/python/vllm/run.sh,mamba:/build/backend/python/mamba/run.sh,exllama2:/build/backend/python/exllama2/run.sh,parler-tts:/build/backend/python/parler-tts/run.sh"
 
 
 RUN apt-get update && \
@@ -456,9 +456,6 @@ RUN if [[ ( "${EXTRA_BACKENDS}" =~ "kokoro" || -z "${EXTRA_BACKENDS}" ) && "$IMA
     if [[ ( "${EXTRA_BACKENDS}" =~ "openvoice" || -z "${EXTRA_BACKENDS}" ) && "$IMAGE_TYPE" == "extras" ]]; then \
         make -C backend/python/openvoice \
     ; fi && \
-    if [[ ( "${EXTRA_BACKENDS}" =~ "sentencetransformers" || -z "${EXTRA_BACKENDS}" ) && "$IMAGE_TYPE" == "extras" ]]; then \
-        make -C backend/python/sentencetransformers \
-    ; fi && \
     if [[ ( "${EXTRA_BACKENDS}" =~ "exllama2" || -z "${EXTRA_BACKENDS}" ) && "$IMAGE_TYPE" == "extras" ]]; then \
         make -C backend/python/exllama2 \
     ; fi && \
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 03468ffb..944cad37 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ DETECT_LIBS?=true
 # llama.cpp versions
 GOLLAMA_REPO?=https://github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp
 GOLLAMA_VERSION?=2b57a8ae43e4699d3dc5d1496a1ccd42922993be
-CPPLLAMA_VERSION?=4dbc8b9cb71876e005724f4e8f73a3544646bcf5
+CPPLLAMA_VERSION?=3edfa7d3753c29e44b964c0ff424d2ea8d5fdee6
 
 # whisper.cpp version
 WHISPER_REPO?=https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
@@ -22,10 +22,6 @@ PIPER_VERSION?=e10ca041a885d4a8f3871d52924b47792d5e5aa0
 STABLEDIFFUSION_REPO?=https://github.com/mudler/go-stable-diffusion
 STABLEDIFFUSION_VERSION?=4a3cd6aeae6f66ee57eae9a0075f8c58c3a6a38f
 
-# tinydream version
-TINYDREAM_REPO?=https://github.com/M0Rf30/go-tiny-dream
-TINYDREAM_VERSION?=c04fa463ace9d9a6464313aa5f9cd0f953b6c057
-
 # bark.cpp
 BARKCPP_REPO?=https://github.com/PABannier/bark.cpp.git
 BARKCPP_VERSION?=v1.0.0
@@ -188,11 +184,6 @@ ifeq ($(findstring stablediffusion,$(GO_TAGS)),stablediffusion)
 	OPTIONAL_GRPC+=backend-assets/grpc/stablediffusion
 endif
 
-ifeq ($(findstring tinydream,$(GO_TAGS)),tinydream)
-#	OPTIONAL_TARGETS+=go-tiny-dream/libtinydream.a
-	OPTIONAL_GRPC+=backend-assets/grpc/tinydream
-endif
-
 ifeq ($(findstring tts,$(GO_TAGS)),tts)
 #	OPTIONAL_TARGETS+=go-piper/libpiper_binding.a
 #	OPTIONAL_TARGETS+=backend-assets/espeak-ng-data
@@ -327,19 +318,6 @@ else
 	mv backend-assets/lib/libonnxruntime.so.$(ONNX_VERSION) backend-assets/lib/libonnxruntime.so.1
 endif
 
-## tiny-dream
-sources/go-tiny-dream:
-	mkdir -p sources/go-tiny-dream
-	cd sources/go-tiny-dream && \
-	git init && \
-	git remote add origin $(TINYDREAM_REPO) && \
-	git fetch origin && \
-	git checkout $(TINYDREAM_VERSION) && \
-	git submodule update --init --recursive --depth 1 --single-branch
-
-sources/go-tiny-dream/libtinydream.a: sources/go-tiny-dream
-	$(MAKE) -C sources/go-tiny-dream libtinydream.a
-
 ## whisper
 sources/whisper.cpp:
 	mkdir -p sources/whisper.cpp
@@ -353,12 +331,11 @@ sources/whisper.cpp:
 sources/whisper.cpp/libwhisper.a: sources/whisper.cpp
 	cd sources/whisper.cpp && $(MAKE) libwhisper.a libggml.a
 
-get-sources: sources/go-llama.cpp sources/go-piper sources/stablediffusion-ggml.cpp sources/bark.cpp sources/whisper.cpp sources/go-stable-diffusion sources/go-tiny-dream backend/cpp/llama/llama.cpp
+get-sources: sources/go-llama.cpp sources/go-piper sources/stablediffusion-ggml.cpp sources/bark.cpp sources/whisper.cpp sources/go-stable-diffusion backend/cpp/llama/llama.cpp
 
 replace:
 	$(GOCMD) mod edit -replace github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp=$(CURDIR)/sources/whisper.cpp
 	$(GOCMD) mod edit -replace github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/bindings/go=$(CURDIR)/sources/whisper.cpp/bindings/go
-	$(GOCMD) mod edit -replace github.com/M0Rf30/go-tiny-dream=$(CURDIR)/sources/go-tiny-dream
 	$(GOCMD) mod edit -replace github.com/mudler/go-piper=$(CURDIR)/sources/go-piper
 	$(GOCMD) mod edit -replace github.com/mudler/go-stable-diffusion=$(CURDIR)/sources/go-stable-diffusion
 	$(GOCMD) mod edit -replace github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp=$(CURDIR)/sources/go-llama.cpp
@@ -366,7 +343,6 @@ replace:
 dropreplace:
 	$(GOCMD) mod edit -dropreplace github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
 	$(GOCMD) mod edit -dropreplace github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/bindings/go
-	$(GOCMD) mod edit -dropreplace github.com/M0Rf30/go-tiny-dream
 	$(GOCMD) mod edit -dropreplace github.com/mudler/go-piper
 	$(GOCMD) mod edit -dropreplace github.com/mudler/go-stable-diffusion
 	$(GOCMD) mod edit -dropreplace github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp
@@ -381,7 +357,6 @@ rebuild: ## Rebuilds the project
 	$(MAKE) -C sources/whisper.cpp clean
 	$(MAKE) -C sources/go-stable-diffusion clean
 	$(MAKE) -C sources/go-piper clean
-	$(MAKE) -C sources/go-tiny-dream clean
 	$(MAKE) build
 
 prepare: prepare-sources $(OPTIONAL_TARGETS)
@@ -497,7 +472,7 @@ test: prepare test-models/testmodel.ggml grpcs
 	@echo 'Running tests'
 	export GO_TAGS="tts stablediffusion debug"
 	$(MAKE) prepare-test
-	HUGGINGFACE_GRPC=$(abspath ./)/backend/python/sentencetransformers/run.sh TEST_DIR=$(abspath ./)/test-dir/ FIXTURES=$(abspath ./)/tests/fixtures CONFIG_FILE=$(abspath ./)/test-models/config.yaml MODELS_PATH=$(abspath ./)/test-models \
+	HUGGINGFACE_GRPC=$(abspath ./)/backend/python/transformers/run.sh TEST_DIR=$(abspath ./)/test-dir/ FIXTURES=$(abspath ./)/tests/fixtures CONFIG_FILE=$(abspath ./)/test-models/config.yaml MODELS_PATH=$(abspath ./)/test-models \
 	$(GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --label-filter="!llama && !llama-gguf"  --flake-attempts $(TEST_FLAKES) --fail-fast -v -r $(TEST_PATHS)
 	$(MAKE) test-llama
 	$(MAKE) test-llama-gguf
@@ -583,10 +558,10 @@ protogen-go-clean:
 	$(RM) bin/*
 
 .PHONY: protogen-python
-protogen-python: autogptq-protogen bark-protogen coqui-protogen diffusers-protogen exllama2-protogen mamba-protogen rerankers-protogen sentencetransformers-protogen transformers-protogen parler-tts-protogen kokoro-protogen vllm-protogen openvoice-protogen
+protogen-python: autogptq-protogen bark-protogen coqui-protogen diffusers-protogen exllama2-protogen mamba-protogen rerankers-protogen transformers-protogen parler-tts-protogen kokoro-protogen vllm-protogen openvoice-protogen
 
 .PHONY: protogen-python-clean
-protogen-python-clean: autogptq-protogen-clean bark-protogen-clean coqui-protogen-clean diffusers-protogen-clean  exllama2-protogen-clean mamba-protogen-clean sentencetransformers-protogen-clean rerankers-protogen-clean transformers-protogen-clean parler-tts-protogen-clean kokoro-protogen-clean vllm-protogen-clean openvoice-protogen-clean
+protogen-python-clean: autogptq-protogen-clean bark-protogen-clean coqui-protogen-clean diffusers-protogen-clean  exllama2-protogen-clean mamba-protogen-clean rerankers-protogen-clean transformers-protogen-clean parler-tts-protogen-clean kokoro-protogen-clean vllm-protogen-clean openvoice-protogen-clean
 
 .PHONY: autogptq-protogen
 autogptq-protogen:
@@ -644,14 +619,6 @@ rerankers-protogen:
 rerankers-protogen-clean:
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/rerankers protogen-clean
 
-.PHONY: sentencetransformers-protogen
-sentencetransformers-protogen:
-	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/sentencetransformers protogen
-
-.PHONY: sentencetransformers-protogen-clean
-sentencetransformers-protogen-clean:
-	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/sentencetransformers protogen-clean
-
 .PHONY: transformers-protogen
 transformers-protogen:
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/transformers protogen
@@ -701,7 +668,6 @@ prepare-extra-conda-environments: protogen-python
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/diffusers
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/vllm
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/mamba
-	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/sentencetransformers
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/rerankers
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/transformers
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/parler-tts
@@ -864,13 +830,6 @@ ifneq ($(UPX),)
 	$(UPX) backend-assets/grpc/silero-vad
 endif
 
-backend-assets/grpc/tinydream: sources/go-tiny-dream sources/go-tiny-dream/libtinydream.a backend-assets/grpc
-	CGO_LDFLAGS="$(CGO_LDFLAGS)" LIBRARY_PATH=$(CURDIR)/go-tiny-dream \
-	$(GOCMD) build -ldflags "$(LD_FLAGS)" -tags "$(GO_TAGS)" -o backend-assets/grpc/tinydream ./backend/go/image/tinydream
-ifneq ($(UPX),)
-	$(UPX) backend-assets/grpc/tinydream
-endif
-
 backend-assets/grpc/whisper: sources/whisper.cpp sources/whisper.cpp/libwhisper.a backend-assets/grpc
 	CGO_LDFLAGS="$(CGO_LDFLAGS) $(CGO_LDFLAGS_WHISPER)" C_INCLUDE_PATH="$(CURDIR)/sources/whisper.cpp/include:$(CURDIR)/sources/whisper.cpp/ggml/include" LIBRARY_PATH=$(CURDIR)/sources/whisper.cpp \
 	$(GOCMD) build -ldflags "$(LD_FLAGS)" -tags "$(GO_TAGS)" -o backend-assets/grpc/whisper ./backend/go/transcribe/whisper
diff --git a/backend/cpp/llama/grpc-server.cpp b/backend/cpp/llama/grpc-server.cpp
index 4e75e7b0..9aeb34db 100644
--- a/backend/cpp/llama/grpc-server.cpp
+++ b/backend/cpp/llama/grpc-server.cpp
@@ -134,6 +134,32 @@ static std::string tokens_to_output_formatted_string(const llama_context *ctx, c
     return out;
 }
 
+// Adds an RPC server
+// https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/compare/4dbc8b9cb71876e005724f4e8f73a3544646bcf5..3edfa7d3753c29e44b964c0ff424d2ea8d5fdee6
+static void add_rpc_devices(std::string servers) {
+    auto rpc_servers = string_split<std::string>(servers, ',');
+    if (rpc_servers.empty()) {
+        throw std::invalid_argument("no RPC servers specified");
+    }
+    ggml_backend_reg_t rpc_reg = ggml_backend_reg_by_name("RPC");
+    if (!rpc_reg) {
+        throw std::invalid_argument("failed to find RPC backend");
+    }
+    typedef ggml_backend_dev_t (*ggml_backend_rpc_add_device_t)(const char * endpoint);
+    ggml_backend_rpc_add_device_t ggml_backend_rpc_add_device_fn = (ggml_backend_rpc_add_device_t) ggml_backend_reg_get_proc_address(rpc_reg, "ggml_backend_rpc_add_device");
+    if (!ggml_backend_rpc_add_device_fn) {
+        throw std::invalid_argument("failed to find RPC device add function");
+    }
+    for (const auto & server : rpc_servers) {
+        ggml_backend_dev_t dev = ggml_backend_rpc_add_device_fn(server.c_str());
+        if (dev) {
+            ggml_backend_device_register(dev);
+        } else {
+            throw std::invalid_argument("failed to register RPC device");
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 // convert a vector of completion_token_output to json
 static json probs_vector_to_json(const llama_context *ctx, const std::vector<completion_token_output> &probs)
 {
@@ -2282,7 +2308,7 @@ static void params_parse(const backend::ModelOptions* request,
 
     const char *llama_grpc_servers = std::getenv("LLAMACPP_GRPC_SERVERS");
     if (llama_grpc_servers != NULL) {
-        params.rpc_servers = std::string(llama_grpc_servers);
+        add_rpc_devices(std::string(llama_grpc_servers));
     }
     
     // TODO: Add yarn
diff --git a/backend/go/image/tinydream/main.go b/backend/go/image/tinydream/main.go
deleted file mode 100644
index ae259fa7..00000000
--- a/backend/go/image/tinydream/main.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-// Note: this is started internally by LocalAI and a server is allocated for each model
-
-import (
-	"flag"
-
-	grpc "github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc"
-)
-
-var (
-	addr = flag.String("addr", "localhost:50051", "the address to connect to")
-)
-
-func main() {
-	flag.Parse()
-
-	if err := grpc.StartServer(*addr, &Image{}); err != nil {
-		panic(err)
-	}
-}
diff --git a/backend/go/image/tinydream/tinydream.go b/backend/go/image/tinydream/tinydream.go
deleted file mode 100644
index ad364c47..00000000
--- a/backend/go/image/tinydream/tinydream.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-// This is a wrapper to statisfy the GRPC service interface
-// It is meant to be used by the main executable that is the server for the specific backend type (falcon, gpt3, etc)
-import (
-	"github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc/base"
-	pb "github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc/proto"
-	"github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/tinydream"
-)
-
-type Image struct {
-	base.SingleThread
-	tinydream *tinydream.TinyDream
-}
-
-func (image *Image) Load(opts *pb.ModelOptions) error {
-	var err error
-	// Note: the Model here is a path to a directory containing the model files
-	image.tinydream, err = tinydream.New(opts.ModelFile)
-	return err
-}
-
-func (image *Image) GenerateImage(opts *pb.GenerateImageRequest) error {
-	return image.tinydream.GenerateImage(
-		int(opts.Height),
-		int(opts.Width),
-		int(opts.Step),
-		int(opts.Seed),
-		opts.PositivePrompt,
-		opts.NegativePrompt,
-		opts.Dst)
-}
diff --git a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/Makefile b/backend/python/sentencetransformers/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b18e943..00000000
--- a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-.PHONY: sentencetransformers
-sentencetransformers: protogen
-	bash ./install.sh
-
-
-.PHONY: run
-run: protogen
-	@echo "Running sentencetransformers..."
-	bash run.sh
-	@echo "sentencetransformers run."
-
-# It is not working well by using command line. It only6 works with IDE like VSCode.
-.PHONY: test
-test: protogen
-	@echo "Testing sentencetransformers..."
-	bash test.sh
-	@echo "sentencetransformers tested."
-
-.PHONY: protogen
-protogen: backend_pb2_grpc.py backend_pb2.py
-
-.PHONY: protogen-clean
-protogen-clean:
-	$(RM) backend_pb2_grpc.py backend_pb2.py
-
-backend_pb2_grpc.py backend_pb2.py:
-	python3 -m grpc_tools.protoc -I../.. --python_out=. --grpc_python_out=. backend.proto
-
-.PHONY: clean
-clean: protogen-clean
-	rm -rf venv __pycache__
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/README.md b/backend/python/sentencetransformers/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 829cf0d1..00000000
--- a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-# Creating a separate environment for the sentencetransformers project
-
-```
-make sentencetransformers
-```
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/backend.py b/backend/python/sentencetransformers/backend.py
deleted file mode 100755
index 2a20bf60..00000000
--- a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/backend.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,114 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-"""
-Extra gRPC server for HuggingFace SentenceTransformer models.
-"""
-from concurrent import futures
-
-import argparse
-import signal
-import sys
-import os
-
-import time
-import backend_pb2
-import backend_pb2_grpc
-
-import grpc
-
-from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
-
-_ONE_DAY_IN_SECONDS = 60 * 60 * 24
-
-# If MAX_WORKERS are specified in the environment use it, otherwise default to 1
-MAX_WORKERS = int(os.environ.get('PYTHON_GRPC_MAX_WORKERS', '1'))
-
-# Implement the BackendServicer class with the service methods
-class BackendServicer(backend_pb2_grpc.BackendServicer):
-    """
-    A gRPC servicer for the backend service.
-
-    This class implements the gRPC methods for the backend service, including Health, LoadModel, and Embedding.
-    """
-    def Health(self, request, context):
-        """
-        A gRPC method that returns the health status of the backend service.
-
-        Args:
-            request: A HealthRequest object that contains the request parameters.
-            context: A grpc.ServicerContext object that provides information about the RPC.
-
-        Returns:
-            A Reply object that contains the health status of the backend service.
-        """
-        return backend_pb2.Reply(message=bytes("OK", 'utf-8'))
-
-    def LoadModel(self, request, context):
-        """
-        A gRPC method that loads a model into memory.
-
-        Args:
-            request: A LoadModelRequest object that contains the request parameters.
-            context: A grpc.ServicerContext object that provides information about the RPC.
-
-        Returns:
-            A Result object that contains the result of the LoadModel operation.
-        """
-        model_name = request.Model
-        try:
-            self.model = SentenceTransformer(model_name, trust_remote_code=request.TrustRemoteCode)
-        except Exception as err:
-            return backend_pb2.Result(success=False, message=f"Unexpected {err=}, {type(err)=}")
-
-        # Implement your logic here for the LoadModel service
-        # Replace this with your desired response
-        return backend_pb2.Result(message="Model loaded successfully", success=True)
-
-    def Embedding(self, request, context):
-        """
-        A gRPC method that calculates embeddings for a given sentence.
-
-        Args:
-            request: An EmbeddingRequest object that contains the request parameters.
-            context: A grpc.ServicerContext object that provides information about the RPC.
-
-        Returns:
-            An EmbeddingResult object that contains the calculated embeddings.
-        """
-        # Implement your logic here for the Embedding service
-        # Replace this with your desired response
-        print("Calculated embeddings for: " + request.Embeddings, file=sys.stderr)
-        sentence_embeddings = self.model.encode(request.Embeddings)
-        return backend_pb2.EmbeddingResult(embeddings=sentence_embeddings)
-
-
-def serve(address):
-    server = grpc.server(futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=MAX_WORKERS))
-    backend_pb2_grpc.add_BackendServicer_to_server(BackendServicer(), server)
-    server.add_insecure_port(address)
-    server.start()
-    print("Server started. Listening on: " + address, file=sys.stderr)
-
-    # Define the signal handler function
-    def signal_handler(sig, frame):
-        print("Received termination signal. Shutting down...")
-        server.stop(0)
-        sys.exit(0)
-
-    # Set the signal handlers for SIGINT and SIGTERM
-    signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal_handler)
-    signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, signal_handler)
-
-    try:
-        while True:
-            time.sleep(_ONE_DAY_IN_SECONDS)
-    except KeyboardInterrupt:
-        server.stop(0)
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Run the gRPC server.")
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--addr", default="localhost:50051", help="The address to bind the server to."
-    )
-    args = parser.parse_args()
-
-    serve(args.addr)
diff --git a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/install.sh b/backend/python/sentencetransformers/install.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 36443ef1..00000000
--- a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/install.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-set -e
-
-source $(dirname $0)/../common/libbackend.sh
-
-# This is here because the Intel pip index is broken and returns 200 status codes for every package name, it just doesn't return any package links.
-# This makes uv think that the package exists in the Intel pip index, and by default it stops looking at other pip indexes once it finds a match.
-# We need uv to continue falling through to the pypi default index to find optimum[openvino] in the pypi index
-# the --upgrade actually allows us to *downgrade* torch to the version provided in the Intel pip index
-if [ "x${BUILD_PROFILE}" == "xintel" ]; then
-    EXTRA_PIP_INSTALL_FLAGS+=" --upgrade --index-strategy=unsafe-first-match"
-fi
-
-installRequirements
diff --git a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/requirements-cpu.txt b/backend/python/sentencetransformers/requirements-cpu.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 1e23f68c..00000000
--- a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/requirements-cpu.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-torch==2.4.1
-accelerate
-transformers
-bitsandbytes
-sentence-transformers==3.3.1
-transformers
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/requirements-cublas11.txt b/backend/python/sentencetransformers/requirements-cublas11.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 3900aba9..00000000
--- a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/requirements-cublas11.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
---extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118
-torch==2.4.1+cu118
-accelerate
-sentence-transformers==3.3.1
-transformers
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/requirements-cublas12.txt b/backend/python/sentencetransformers/requirements-cublas12.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 2afd0520..00000000
--- a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/requirements-cublas12.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-torch==2.4.1
-accelerate
-sentence-transformers==3.3.1
-transformers
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/requirements-hipblas.txt b/backend/python/sentencetransformers/requirements-hipblas.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index b472d371..00000000
--- a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/requirements-hipblas.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
---extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/rocm6.0
-torch==2.4.1+rocm6.0
-accelerate
-sentence-transformers==3.3.1
-transformers
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/requirements-intel.txt b/backend/python/sentencetransformers/requirements-intel.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index e9b72aab..00000000
--- a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/requirements-intel.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---extra-index-url https://pytorch-extension.intel.com/release-whl/stable/xpu/us/
-intel-extension-for-pytorch==2.3.110+xpu
-torch==2.3.1+cxx11.abi
-oneccl_bind_pt==2.3.100+xpu
-optimum[openvino]
-setuptools
-accelerate
-sentence-transformers==3.3.1
-transformers
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/requirements.txt b/backend/python/sentencetransformers/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e03c63f..00000000
--- a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-grpcio==1.69.0
-protobuf
-certifi
-datasets
-einops
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/run.sh b/backend/python/sentencetransformers/run.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 375c07e5..00000000
--- a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/run.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-source $(dirname $0)/../common/libbackend.sh
-
-startBackend $@
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/test.py b/backend/python/sentencetransformers/test.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 9df52b14..00000000
--- a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/test.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,81 +0,0 @@
-"""
-A test script to test the gRPC service
-"""
-import unittest
-import subprocess
-import time
-import backend_pb2
-import backend_pb2_grpc
-
-import grpc
-
-
-class TestBackendServicer(unittest.TestCase):
-    """
-    TestBackendServicer is the class that tests the gRPC service
-    """
-    def setUp(self):
-        """
-        This method sets up the gRPC service by starting the server
-        """
-        self.service = subprocess.Popen(["python3", "backend.py", "--addr", "localhost:50051"])
-        time.sleep(10)
-
-    def tearDown(self) -> None:
-        """
-        This method tears down the gRPC service by terminating the server
-        """
-        self.service.kill()
-        self.service.wait()
-
-    def test_server_startup(self):
-        """
-        This method tests if the server starts up successfully
-        """
-        try:
-            self.setUp()
-            with grpc.insecure_channel("localhost:50051") as channel:
-                stub = backend_pb2_grpc.BackendStub(channel)
-                response = stub.Health(backend_pb2.HealthMessage())
-                self.assertEqual(response.message, b'OK')
-        except Exception as err:
-            print(err)
-            self.fail("Server failed to start")
-        finally:
-            self.tearDown()
-
-    def test_load_model(self):
-        """
-        This method tests if the model is loaded successfully
-        """
-        try:
-            self.setUp()
-            with grpc.insecure_channel("localhost:50051") as channel:
-                stub = backend_pb2_grpc.BackendStub(channel)
-                response = stub.LoadModel(backend_pb2.ModelOptions(Model="bert-base-nli-mean-tokens"))
-                self.assertTrue(response.success)
-                self.assertEqual(response.message, "Model loaded successfully")
-        except Exception as err:
-            print(err)
-            self.fail("LoadModel service failed")
-        finally:
-            self.tearDown()
-
-    def test_embedding(self):
-        """
-        This method tests if the embeddings are generated successfully
-        """
-        try:
-            self.setUp()
-            with grpc.insecure_channel("localhost:50051") as channel:
-                stub = backend_pb2_grpc.BackendStub(channel)
-                response = stub.LoadModel(backend_pb2.ModelOptions(Model="bert-base-nli-mean-tokens"))
-                self.assertTrue(response.success)
-                embedding_request = backend_pb2.PredictOptions(Embeddings="This is a test sentence.")
-                embedding_response = stub.Embedding(embedding_request)
-                self.assertIsNotNone(embedding_response.embeddings)
-        except Exception as err:
-            print(err)
-            self.fail("Embedding service failed")
-        finally:
-            self.tearDown()
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/test.sh b/backend/python/sentencetransformers/test.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 6940b066..00000000
--- a/backend/python/sentencetransformers/test.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-set -e
-
-source $(dirname $0)/../common/libbackend.sh
-
-runUnittests
diff --git a/backend/python/transformers/backend.py b/backend/python/transformers/backend.py
index 27257934..9b65c6db 100644
--- a/backend/python/transformers/backend.py
+++ b/backend/python/transformers/backend.py
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel, set_seed, TextIteratorStreame
 from transformers import AutoProcessor, MusicgenForConditionalGeneration
 from scipy.io import wavfile
 import outetts
+from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
+
 
 _ONE_DAY_IN_SECONDS = 60 * 60 * 24
 
@@ -88,10 +90,12 @@ class BackendServicer(backend_pb2_grpc.BackendServicer):
         self.CUDA = torch.cuda.is_available()
         self.OV=False
         self.OuteTTS=False
+        self.SentenceTransformer = False
 
         device_map="cpu"
 
         quantization = None
+        autoTokenizer = True
 
         if self.CUDA:
             from transformers import BitsAndBytesConfig, AutoModelForCausalLM
@@ -195,9 +199,11 @@ class BackendServicer(backend_pb2_grpc.BackendServicer):
                                                                 device=device_map)
                 self.OV = True
             elif request.Type == "MusicgenForConditionalGeneration":
+                autoTokenizer = False
                 self.processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_name)
                 self.model = MusicgenForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(model_name)
             elif request.Type == "OuteTTS":
+                autoTokenizer = False
                 options = request.Options
                 MODELNAME = "OuteAI/OuteTTS-0.3-1B"
                 TOKENIZER = "OuteAI/OuteTTS-0.3-1B"
@@ -235,6 +241,10 @@ class BackendServicer(backend_pb2_grpc.BackendServicer):
                     self.speaker = self.interface.create_speaker(audio_path=self.AudioPath)
                 else:
                     self.speaker = self.interface.load_default_speaker(name=SPEAKER)               
+            elif request.Type == "SentenceTransformer":
+                autoTokenizer = False
+                self.model = SentenceTransformer(model_name, trust_remote_code=request.TrustRemoteCode)
+                self.SentenceTransformer = True
             else:
                 print("Automodel", file=sys.stderr)
                 self.model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(model_name, 
@@ -250,7 +260,7 @@ class BackendServicer(backend_pb2_grpc.BackendServicer):
             else:
                 self.max_tokens = 512
  
-            if request.Type != "MusicgenForConditionalGeneration":
+            if autoTokenizer:
                 self.tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name, use_safetensors=True)
                 self.XPU = False
 
@@ -286,18 +296,26 @@ class BackendServicer(backend_pb2_grpc.BackendServicer):
         max_length = 512
         if request.Tokens != 0:
             max_length = request.Tokens
-        encoded_input = self.tokenizer(request.Embeddings, padding=True, truncation=True, max_length=max_length, return_tensors="pt")    
 
-        # Create word embeddings
-        if self.CUDA:
-            encoded_input = encoded_input.to("cuda")
+        embeds = None
 
-        with torch.no_grad():    
-            model_output = self.model(**encoded_input)
+        if self.SentenceTransformer:
+            print("Calculated embeddings for: " + request.Embeddings, file=sys.stderr)
+            embeds = self.model.encode(request.Embeddings)
+        else:
+            encoded_input = self.tokenizer(request.Embeddings, padding=True, truncation=True, max_length=max_length, return_tensors="pt")    
 
-        # Pool to get sentence embeddings; i.e. generate one 1024 vector for the entire sentence
-        sentence_embeddings = mean_pooling(model_output, encoded_input['attention_mask'])
-        return backend_pb2.EmbeddingResult(embeddings=sentence_embeddings[0])
+            # Create word embeddings
+            if self.CUDA:
+                encoded_input = encoded_input.to("cuda")
+
+            with torch.no_grad():    
+                model_output = self.model(**encoded_input)
+
+            # Pool to get sentence embeddings; i.e. generate one 1024 vector for the entire sentence
+            sentence_embeddings = mean_pooling(model_output, encoded_input['attention_mask'])
+            embeds = sentence_embeddings[0]
+        return backend_pb2.EmbeddingResult(embeddings=embeds)
 
     async def _predict(self, request, context, streaming=False): 
         set_seed(request.Seed)
diff --git a/backend/python/transformers/requirements-cpu.txt b/backend/python/transformers/requirements-cpu.txt
index 56b77325..421c4b80 100644
--- a/backend/python/transformers/requirements-cpu.txt
+++ b/backend/python/transformers/requirements-cpu.txt
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ llvmlite==0.43.0
 accelerate
 transformers
 bitsandbytes
-outetts
\ No newline at end of file
+outetts
+sentence-transformers==3.3.1
diff --git a/backend/python/transformers/requirements-cublas11.txt b/backend/python/transformers/requirements-cublas11.txt
index 924b0086..c5d18d09 100644
--- a/backend/python/transformers/requirements-cublas11.txt
+++ b/backend/python/transformers/requirements-cublas11.txt
@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ llvmlite==0.43.0
 accelerate
 transformers
 bitsandbytes
-outetts
\ No newline at end of file
+outetts
+sentence-transformers==3.3.1
diff --git a/backend/python/transformers/requirements-cublas12.txt b/backend/python/transformers/requirements-cublas12.txt
index 0feb3d81..c0bcfc87 100644
--- a/backend/python/transformers/requirements-cublas12.txt
+++ b/backend/python/transformers/requirements-cublas12.txt
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ accelerate
 llvmlite==0.43.0
 transformers
 bitsandbytes
-outetts
\ No newline at end of file
+outetts
+sentence-transformers==3.3.1
diff --git a/backend/python/transformers/requirements-hipblas.txt b/backend/python/transformers/requirements-hipblas.txt
index fa65fb8e..e7f53860 100644
--- a/backend/python/transformers/requirements-hipblas.txt
+++ b/backend/python/transformers/requirements-hipblas.txt
@@ -4,4 +4,6 @@ accelerate
 transformers
 llvmlite==0.43.0
 bitsandbytes
-outetts
\ No newline at end of file
+outetts
+bitsandbytes
+sentence-transformers==3.3.1
diff --git a/backend/python/transformers/requirements-intel.txt b/backend/python/transformers/requirements-intel.txt
index 4a295599..aada6e00 100644
--- a/backend/python/transformers/requirements-intel.txt
+++ b/backend/python/transformers/requirements-intel.txt
@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@ optimum[openvino]
 llvmlite==0.43.0
 intel-extension-for-transformers
 bitsandbytes
-outetts
\ No newline at end of file
+outetts
+sentence-transformers==3.3.1
diff --git a/backend/python/transformers/test.py b/backend/python/transformers/test.py
index 305b0a93..14efa6a7 100644
--- a/backend/python/transformers/test.py
+++ b/backend/python/transformers/test.py
@@ -133,5 +133,41 @@ class TestBackendServicer(unittest.TestCase):
         except Exception as err:
             print(err)
             self.fail("SoundGeneration service failed")
+        finally:
+            self.tearDown()
+
+    def test_embed_load_model(self):
+        """
+        This method tests if the model is loaded successfully
+        """
+        try:
+            self.setUp()
+            with grpc.insecure_channel("localhost:50051") as channel:
+                stub = backend_pb2_grpc.BackendStub(channel)
+                response = stub.LoadModel(backend_pb2.ModelOptions(Model="bert-base-nli-mean-tokens",Type="SentenceTransformer"))
+                self.assertTrue(response.success)
+                self.assertEqual(response.message, "Model loaded successfully")
+        except Exception as err:
+            print(err)
+            self.fail("LoadModel service failed")
+        finally:
+            self.tearDown()
+
+    def test_sentencetransformers_embedding(self):
+        """
+        This method tests if the embeddings are generated successfully
+        """
+        try:
+            self.setUp()
+            with grpc.insecure_channel("localhost:50051") as channel:
+                stub = backend_pb2_grpc.BackendStub(channel)
+                response = stub.LoadModel(backend_pb2.ModelOptions(Model="bert-base-nli-mean-tokens",Type="SentenceTransformer"))
+                self.assertTrue(response.success)
+                embedding_request = backend_pb2.PredictOptions(Embeddings="This is a test sentence.")
+                embedding_response = stub.Embedding(embedding_request)
+                self.assertIsNotNone(embedding_response.embeddings)
+        except Exception as err:
+            print(err)
+            self.fail("Embedding service failed")
         finally:
             self.tearDown()
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/core/config/backend_config.go b/core/config/backend_config.go
index bb2fa643..a488f2a0 100644
--- a/core/config/backend_config.go
+++ b/core/config/backend_config.go
@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ func (c *BackendConfig) GuessUsecases(u BackendConfigUsecases) bool {
 		}
 	}
 	if (u & FLAG_IMAGE) == FLAG_IMAGE {
-		imageBackends := []string{"diffusers", "tinydream", "stablediffusion"}
+		imageBackends := []string{"diffusers", "stablediffusion"}
 		if !slices.Contains(imageBackends, c.Backend) {
 			return false
 		}
diff --git a/core/http/app_test.go b/core/http/app_test.go
index 6bf1806b..a2e2f758 100644
--- a/core/http/app_test.go
+++ b/core/http/app_test.go
@@ -822,7 +822,7 @@ var _ = Describe("API test", func() {
 
 			application, err := application.New(
 				append(commonOpts,
-					config.WithExternalBackend("huggingface", os.Getenv("HUGGINGFACE_GRPC")),
+					config.WithExternalBackend("transformers", os.Getenv("HUGGINGFACE_GRPC")),
 					config.WithContext(c),
 					config.WithModelPath(modelPath),
 				)...)
diff --git a/core/http/endpoints/openai/image.go b/core/http/endpoints/openai/image.go
index 3fdb64d4..baaecd4e 100644
--- a/core/http/endpoints/openai/image.go
+++ b/core/http/endpoints/openai/image.go
@@ -130,8 +130,6 @@ func ImageEndpoint(cl *config.BackendConfigLoader, ml *model.ModelLoader, appCon
 		switch config.Backend {
 		case "stablediffusion":
 			config.Backend = model.StableDiffusionBackend
-		case "tinydream":
-			config.Backend = model.TinyDreamBackend
 		case "":
 			config.Backend = model.StableDiffusionBackend
 		}
diff --git a/docs/content/docs/getting-started/build.md b/docs/content/docs/getting-started/build.md
index f21a5b48..9fff1989 100644
--- a/docs/content/docs/getting-started/build.md
+++ b/docs/content/docs/getting-started/build.md
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Here is the list of the variables available that can be used to customize the bu
 | Variable | Default | Description |
 | ---------------------| ------- | ----------- |
 | `BUILD_TYPE`         |   None      | Build type. Available: `cublas`, `openblas`, `clblas`, `metal`,`hipblas`, `sycl_f16`, `sycl_f32` |
-| `GO_TAGS`            |   `tts stablediffusion`      | Go tags. Available: `stablediffusion`, `tts`, `tinydream` |
+| `GO_TAGS`            |   `tts stablediffusion`      | Go tags. Available: `stablediffusion`, `tts` |
 | `CLBLAST_DIR`        |         | Specify a CLBlast directory |
 | `CUDA_LIBPATH`       |         | Specify a CUDA library path |
 | `BUILD_API_ONLY` | false | Set to true to build only the API (no backends will be built) |
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ make build
 
 **Requirements**: OpenCV, Gomp
 
-Image generation requires `GO_TAGS=stablediffusion` or `GO_TAGS=tinydream` to be set during build:
+Image generation requires `GO_TAGS=stablediffusion` to be set during build:
 
 ```
 make GO_TAGS=stablediffusion build
diff --git a/docs/content/docs/getting-started/container-images.md b/docs/content/docs/getting-started/container-images.md
index 25385f23..64f6dbc9 100644
--- a/docs/content/docs/getting-started/container-images.md
+++ b/docs/content/docs/getting-started/container-images.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ For GPU Acceleration support for Nvidia video graphic cards, use the Nvidia/CUDA
 
 **Available Images Types**:
 
-- Images ending with `-core` are smaller images without predownload python dependencies. Use these images if you plan to use `llama.cpp`, `stablediffusion-ncn`, `tinydream` or `rwkv` backends - if you are not sure which one to use, do **not** use these images.
+- Images ending with `-core` are smaller images without predownload python dependencies. Use these images if you plan to use `llama.cpp`, `stablediffusion-ncn` or `rwkv` backends - if you are not sure which one to use, do **not** use these images.
 - Images containing the `aio` tag are all-in-one images with all the features enabled, and come with an opinionated set of configuration.
 - FFMpeg is **not** included in the default images due to [its licensing](https://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html). If you need FFMpeg, use the images ending with `-ffmpeg`. Note that `ffmpeg` is needed in case of using `audio-to-text` LocalAI's features.
 - If using old and outdated CPUs and no GPUs you might need to set `REBUILD` to `true` as environment variable along with options to disable the flags which your CPU does not support, however note that inference will perform poorly and slow. See also [flagset compatibility]({{%relref "docs/getting-started/build#cpu-flagset-compatibility" %}}).
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ Images with `core` in the tag are smaller and do not contain any python dependen
 | --- | --- |-------------------------------------------------------------|
 | Latest images from the branch (development) | `quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai:master-sycl-f16` | `localai/localai:master-sycl-f16`                      |
 | Latest tag | `quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai:latest-gpu-intel-f16` | `localai/localai:latest-gpu-intel-f16`                      |
-| Versioned image | `quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai:{{< version >}}-sycl-f16` | `localai/localai:{{< version >}}-sycl-f16`             |
+| Versioned image | `quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai:{{< version >}}-sycl-f16-core` | `localai/localai:{{< version >}}-sycl-f16-core`             |
 | Versioned image including FFMpeg| `quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai:{{< version >}}-sycl-f16-ffmpeg` | `localai/localai:{{< version >}}-sycl-f16-ffmpeg`      |
 | Versioned image including FFMpeg, no python | `quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai:{{< version >}}-sycl-f16-ffmpeg-core` | `localai/localai:{{< version >}}-sycl-f16-ffmpeg-core` |
 
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ Images with `core` in the tag are smaller and do not contain any python dependen
 | --- | --- |-------------------------------------------------------------|
 | Latest images from the branch (development) | `quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai:master-sycl-f32` | `localai/localai:master-sycl-f32`                      |
 | Latest tag | `quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai:latest-gpu-intel-f32` | `localai/localai:latest-gpu-intel-f32`                      |
-| Versioned image | `quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai:{{< version >}}-sycl-f32` | `localai/localai:{{< version >}}-sycl-f32`             |
+| Versioned image | `quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai:{{< version >}}-sycl-f32-core` | `localai/localai:{{< version >}}-sycl-f32-core`             |
 | Versioned image including FFMpeg| `quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai:{{< version >}}-sycl-f32-ffmpeg` | `localai/localai:{{< version >}}-sycl-f32-ffmpeg`      |
 | Versioned image including FFMpeg, no python | `quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai:{{< version >}}-sycl-f32-ffmpeg-core` | `localai/localai:{{< version >}}-sycl-f32-ffmpeg-core` |
 
diff --git a/docs/content/docs/reference/compatibility-table.md b/docs/content/docs/reference/compatibility-table.md
index 7056f4a5..d2f4d8ac 100644
--- a/docs/content/docs/reference/compatibility-table.md
+++ b/docs/content/docs/reference/compatibility-table.md
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ LocalAI will attempt to automatically load models which are not explicitly confi
 | `mamba` | Mamba models architecture | yes                      | GPT             | no | no                  | CPU/CUDA |
 | `exllama2`  | GPTQ                   | yes                       | GPT only                  | no                               | no                   | N/A |
 | `transformers-musicgen`  |                    | no                       | Audio generation                | no                               | no                   | N/A |
-| [tinydream](https://github.com/symisc/tiny-dream#tiny-dreaman-embedded-header-only-stable-diffusion-inference-c-librarypixlabiotiny-dream)         | stablediffusion               | no                       | Image                 | no                                | no                   | N/A |
+| stablediffusion               | no                       | Image                 | no                                | no                   | N/A |
 | `coqui` | Coqui    | no                       | Audio generation and Voice cloning    | no                               | no                   | CPU/CUDA |
 | `openvoice` | Open voice    | no                       | Audio generation and Voice cloning    | no                               | no                   | CPU/CUDA |
 | `parler-tts` | Open voice    | no                       | Audio generation and Voice cloning    | no                               | no                   | CPU/CUDA |
diff --git a/gallery/index.yaml b/gallery/index.yaml
index 349cd419..edd52725 100644
--- a/gallery/index.yaml
+++ b/gallery/index.yaml
@@ -9187,6 +9187,7 @@
       uri: huggingface://xtuner/llava-llama-3-8b-v1_1-gguf/llava-llama-3-8b-v1_1-mmproj-f16.gguf
 - !!merge <<: *llama3
   name: "minicpm-llama3-v-2_5"
+  icon: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM/main/assets/minicpm_logo.png
   urls:
     - https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM-Llama3-V-2_5-gguf
     - https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM-Llama3-V-2_5
@@ -9210,6 +9211,33 @@
     - filename: minicpm-llama3-mmproj-f16.gguf
       sha256: 391d11736c3cd24a90417c47b0c88975e86918fcddb1b00494c4d715b08af13e
       uri: huggingface://openbmb/MiniCPM-Llama3-V-2_5-gguf/mmproj-model-f16.gguf
+- !!merge <<: *llama3
+  name: "minicpm-v-2_6"
+  license: apache-2.0
+  icon: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM/main/assets/minicpm_logo.png
+  urls:
+    - https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM-V-2_6-gguf
+    - https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM-V-2_6
+  description: |
+    MiniCPM-V 2.6 is the latest and most capable model in the MiniCPM-V series. The model is built on SigLip-400M and Qwen2-7B with a total of 8B parameters
+  tags:
+    - llm
+    - multimodal
+    - gguf
+    - gpu
+    - llama3
+    - cpu
+  overrides:
+    mmproj: minicpm-v-2_6-mmproj-f16.gguf
+    parameters:
+      model: minicpm-v-2_6-Q4_K_M.gguf
+  files:
+    - filename: minicpm-v-2_6-Q4_K_M.gguf
+      sha256: 3a4078d53b46f22989adbf998ce5a3fd090b6541f112d7e936eb4204a04100b1
+      uri: huggingface://openbmb/MiniCPM-V-2_6-gguf/ggml-model-Q4_K_M.gguf
+    - filename: minicpm-v-2_6-mmproj-f16.gguf
+      sha256: f8a805e9e62085805c69c427287acefc284932eb4abfe6e1b1ce431d27e2f4e0
+      uri: huggingface://openbmb/MiniCPM-V-2_6-gguf/mmproj-model-f16.gguf
 - !!merge <<: *llama3
   name: "llama-3-cursedstock-v1.8-8b-iq-imatrix"
   urls:
@@ -11187,15 +11215,6 @@
   description: |
     Stable Diffusion in NCNN with c++, supported txt2img and img2img
   name: stablediffusion-cpp
-## Tiny Dream
-- url: github:mudler/LocalAI/gallery/tinydream.yaml@master
-  name: tinydream
-  license: "BSD-3"
-  urls:
-    - https://github.com/symisc/tiny-dream
-    - https://github.com/symisc/tiny-dream/blob/main/LICENSE
-  description: |
-    An embedded, Header Only, Stable Diffusion C++ implementation
 - &piper
   ## Piper TTS
   url: github:mudler/LocalAI/gallery/piper.yaml@master
diff --git a/gallery/tinydream.yaml b/gallery/tinydream.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index e4a79ad7..00000000
--- a/gallery/tinydream.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
----
-name: "tinydream"
-
-config_file: |
-  name: tinydream
-  backend: tinydream
-  parameters:
-    model: tinydream_assets
-
-files:
-  - filename: "tinydream_assets/AutoencoderKL-fp16.bin"
-    sha256: "f02e71f80e70252734724bbfaed5c4ddd3a8ed7e61bb2175ff5f53099f0e35dd"
-    uri: "https://github.com/M0Rf30/tiny-dream-bins/releases/download/1.0/AutoencoderKL-fp16.bin"
-  - filename: "tinydream_assets/AutoencoderKL-fp16.param"
-    sha256: "0254a056dce61b0c27dc9ec1b78b53bcf55315c540f55f051eb841aa992701ba"
-    uri: "https://github.com/M0Rf30/tiny-dream-bins/releases/download/1.0/AutoencoderKL-fp16.param"
-  - filename: "tinydream_assets/FrozenCLIPEmbedder-fp16.bin"
-    sha256: "1c9a12f4e1dd1b295a388045f7f28a2352a4d70c3dc96a542189a3dd7051fdd6"
-    uri: "https://github.com/M0Rf30/tiny-dream-bins/releases/download/1.0/FrozenCLIPEmbedder-fp16.bin"
-  - filename: "tinydream_assets/FrozenCLIPEmbedder-fp16.param"
-    sha256: "471afbe678dd1fd3fe764ef9c6eccaccb0a7d7e601f27b462aa926b20eb368c9"
-    uri: "https://github.com/M0Rf30/tiny-dream-bins/releases/download/1.0/FrozenCLIPEmbedder-fp16.param"
-  - filename: "tinydream_assets/RealESRGAN_x4plus_anime.bin"
-    sha256: "fe01c269cfd10cdef8e018ab66ebe750cf79c7af4d1f9c16c737e1295229bacc"
-    uri: "https://github.com/M0Rf30/tiny-dream-bins/releases/download/1.0/RealESRGAN_x4plus_anime.bin"
-  - filename: "tinydream_assets/RealESRGAN_x4plus_anime.param"
-    sha256: "2b8fb6e0ae4d2d85704ca08c119a2f5ea40add4f2ecd512eb7f4cd44b6127ed4"
-    uri: "https://github.com/M0Rf30/tiny-dream-bins/releases/download/1.0/RealESRGAN_x4plus_anime.param"
-  - filename: "tinydream_assets/UNetModel-fp16.bin"
-    sha256: "d618918d011bfc1f644c0f2a33bf84931bd53b28a98492b0a8ed6f3a818852c3"
-    uri: "https://github.com/M0Rf30/tiny-dream-bins/releases/download/1.0/UNetModel-fp16.bin"
-  - filename: "tinydream_assets/UNetModel-fp16.param"
-    sha256: "696f6975de49f4325b53ce32aff81861a6d6c07cd9ce3f0aae2cc405350af38d"
-    uri: "https://github.com/M0Rf30/tiny-dream-bins/releases/download/1.0/UNetModel-fp16.param"
-  - filename: "tinydream_assets/vocab.txt"
-    sha256: "e30e57b6f1e47616982ef898d8922be24e535b4fa3d0110477b3a6f02ebbae7d"
-    uri: "https://github.com/M0Rf30/tiny-dream-bins/releases/download/1.0/vocab.txt"
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 8aecf14d..adfa7357 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ toolchain go1.23.1
 
 require (
 	dario.cat/mergo v1.0.1
-	github.com/M0Rf30/go-tiny-dream v0.0.0-20240425104733-c04fa463ace9
 	github.com/Masterminds/sprig/v3 v3.3.0
 	github.com/alecthomas/kong v0.9.0
 	github.com/census-instrumentation/opencensus-proto v0.4.1
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index a1a487b2..4a744ed8 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@ github.com/BurntSushi/toml v0.3.1/go.mod h1:xHWCNGjB5oqiDr8zfno3MHue2Ht5sIBksp03
 github.com/BurntSushi/toml v1.2.1/go.mod h1:CxXYINrC8qIiEnFrOxCa7Jy5BFHlXnUU2pbicEuybxQ=
 github.com/KyleBanks/depth v1.2.1 h1:5h8fQADFrWtarTdtDudMmGsC7GPbOAu6RVB3ffsVFHc=
 github.com/KyleBanks/depth v1.2.1/go.mod h1:jzSb9d0L43HxTQfT+oSA1EEp2q+ne2uh6XgeJcm8brE=
-github.com/M0Rf30/go-tiny-dream v0.0.0-20240425104733-c04fa463ace9 h1:ASsbvw7wQPldWpwKdmYRszJ2A8Cj3oJDr4zO0DiXvN4=
-github.com/M0Rf30/go-tiny-dream v0.0.0-20240425104733-c04fa463ace9/go.mod h1:UOf2Mb/deUri5agct5OJ4SLWjhI+kZKbsUVUeRb24I0=
 github.com/Masterminds/goutils v1.1.1 h1:5nUrii3FMTL5diU80unEVvNevw1nH4+ZV4DSLVJLSYI=
 github.com/Masterminds/goutils v1.1.1/go.mod h1:8cTjp+g8YejhMuvIA5y2vz3BpJxksy863GQaJW2MFNU=
 github.com/Masterminds/semver/v3 v3.3.0 h1:B8LGeaivUe71a5qox1ICM/JLl0NqZSW5CHyL+hmvYS0=
diff --git a/pkg/model/initializers.go b/pkg/model/initializers.go
index f4675050..756deea7 100644
--- a/pkg/model/initializers.go
+++ b/pkg/model/initializers.go
@@ -22,11 +22,19 @@ import (
 )
 
 var Aliases map[string]string = map[string]string{
-	"go-llama":              LLamaCPP,
-	"llama":                 LLamaCPP,
-	"embedded-store":        LocalStoreBackend,
-	"langchain-huggingface": LCHuggingFaceBackend,
-	"transformers-musicgen": TransformersBackend,
+	"go-llama":               LLamaCPP,
+	"llama":                  LLamaCPP,
+	"embedded-store":         LocalStoreBackend,
+	"huggingface-embeddings": TransformersBackend,
+	"langchain-huggingface":  LCHuggingFaceBackend,
+	"transformers-musicgen":  TransformersBackend,
+	"sentencetransformers":   TransformersBackend,
+}
+
+var TypeAlias map[string]string = map[string]string{
+	"sentencetransformers":   "SentenceTransformer",
+	"huggingface-embeddings": "SentenceTransformer",
+	"transformers-musicgen":  "MusicgenForConditionalGeneration",
 }
 
 var AutoDetect = os.Getenv("DISABLE_AUTODETECT") != "true"
@@ -48,7 +56,6 @@ const (
 
 	WhisperBackend         = "whisper"
 	StableDiffusionBackend = "stablediffusion"
-	TinyDreamBackend       = "tinydream"
 	PiperBackend           = "piper"
 	LCHuggingFaceBackend   = "huggingface"
 
@@ -396,6 +403,7 @@ func (ml *ModelLoader) grpcModel(backend string, autodetect bool, o *Options) fu
 		}
 
 		log.Debug().Msgf("Wait for the service to start up")
+		log.Debug().Msgf("Options: %+v", o.gRPCOptions)
 
 		// Wait for the service to start up
 		ready := false
@@ -460,8 +468,15 @@ func (ml *ModelLoader) backendLoader(opts ...Option) (client grpc.Backend, err e
 
 	backend := strings.ToLower(o.backendString)
 	if realBackend, exists := Aliases[backend]; exists {
+		typeAlias, exists := TypeAlias[backend]
+		if exists {
+			log.Debug().Msgf("'%s' is a type alias of '%s' (%s)", backend, realBackend, typeAlias)
+			o.gRPCOptions.Type = typeAlias
+		} else {
+			log.Debug().Msgf("'%s' is an alias of '%s'", backend, realBackend)
+		}
+
 		backend = realBackend
-		log.Debug().Msgf("%s is an alias of %s", backend, realBackend)
 	}
 
 	ml.stopActiveBackends(o.modelID, o.singleActiveBackend)
diff --git a/pkg/tinydream/generate.go b/pkg/tinydream/generate.go
deleted file mode 100644
index cfcd23cc..00000000
--- a/pkg/tinydream/generate.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-//go:build tinydream
-// +build tinydream
-
-package tinydream
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"path/filepath"
-
-	tinyDream "github.com/M0Rf30/go-tiny-dream"
-)
-
-func GenerateImage(height, width, step, seed int, positive_prompt, negative_prompt, dst, asset_dir string) error {
-	fmt.Println(dst)
-	if height > 512 || width > 512 {
-		return tinyDream.GenerateImage(
-			1,
-			step,
-			seed,
-			positive_prompt,
-			negative_prompt,
-			filepath.Dir(dst),
-			asset_dir,
-		)
-	}
-
-	return tinyDream.GenerateImage(
-		0,
-		step,
-		seed,
-		positive_prompt,
-		negative_prompt,
-		filepath.Dir(dst),
-		asset_dir,
-	)
-}
diff --git a/pkg/tinydream/generate_unsupported.go b/pkg/tinydream/generate_unsupported.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 4ffd421a..00000000
--- a/pkg/tinydream/generate_unsupported.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-//go:build !tinydream
-// +build !tinydream
-
-package tinydream
-
-import "fmt"
-
-func GenerateImage(height, width, step, seed int, positive_prompt, negative_prompt, dst, asset_dir string) error {
-	return fmt.Errorf("This version of LocalAI was built without the tinytts tag")
-}
diff --git a/pkg/tinydream/tinydream.go b/pkg/tinydream/tinydream.go
deleted file mode 100644
index a316e641..00000000
--- a/pkg/tinydream/tinydream.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-package tinydream
-
-import "os"
-
-type TinyDream struct {
-	assetDir string
-}
-
-func New(assetDir string) (*TinyDream, error) {
-	if _, err := os.Stat(assetDir); err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	return &TinyDream{
-		assetDir: assetDir,
-	}, nil
-}
-
-func (td *TinyDream) GenerateImage(height, width, step, seed int, positive_prompt, negative_prompt, dst string) error {
-	return GenerateImage(height, width, step, seed, positive_prompt, negative_prompt, dst, td.assetDir)
-}
diff --git a/tests/models_fixtures/grpc.yaml b/tests/models_fixtures/grpc.yaml
index 31c406ab..8c519920 100644
--- a/tests/models_fixtures/grpc.yaml
+++ b/tests/models_fixtures/grpc.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: code-search-ada-code-001
-backend: huggingface
+backend: sentencetransformers
 embeddings: true
 parameters:
   model: all-MiniLM-L6-v2
\ No newline at end of file