diff --git a/api/api_test.go b/api/api_test.go
index ca840b53..06e978ba 100644
--- a/api/api_test.go
+++ b/api/api_test.go
@@ -555,9 +555,10 @@ var _ = Describe("API test", func() {
 		})
 
 		It("returns errors", func() {
+			backends := len(model.AutoLoadBackends)
 			_, err := client.CreateCompletion(context.TODO(), openai.CompletionRequest{Model: "foomodel", Prompt: "abcdedfghikl"})
 			Expect(err).To(HaveOccurred())
-			Expect(err.Error()).To(ContainSubstring("error, status code: 500, message: could not load model - all backends returned error: 12 errors occurred:"))
+			Expect(err.Error()).To(ContainSubstring(fmt.Sprintf("error, status code: 500, message: could not load model - all backends returned error: %d errors occurred:", backends)))
 		})
 		It("transcribes audio", func() {
 			if runtime.GOOS != "linux" {
diff --git a/pkg/model/initializers.go b/pkg/model/initializers.go
index 8ca3769d..a4d21fa5 100644
--- a/pkg/model/initializers.go
+++ b/pkg/model/initializers.go
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ const (
 	//GGLLMFalconBackend     = "falcon"
 )
 
-var autoLoadBackends []string = []string{
+var AutoLoadBackends []string = []string{
 	LlamaBackend,
 	Gpt4All,
 	RwkvBackend,
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ var autoLoadBackends []string = []string{
 	WhisperBackend,
 	GPTNeoXBackend,
 	BertEmbeddingsBackend,
+	LlamaMasterBackend,
 	FalconGGMLBackend,
 	GPTJBackend,
 	Gpt2Backend,
@@ -218,7 +219,7 @@ func (ml *ModelLoader) GreedyLoader(opts ...Option) (*grpc.Client, error) {
 	ml.mu.Unlock()
 	var err error
 
-	for _, b := range autoLoadBackends {
+	for _, b := range AutoLoadBackends {
 		if b == BloomzBackend || b == WhisperBackend || b == RwkvBackend { // do not autoload bloomz/whisper/rwkv
 			continue
 		}