diff --git a/src/modules/llms/server/openai/models/models.data.ts b/src/modules/llms/server/openai/models/models.data.ts
index 4006e2eaa..3d1760c71 100644
--- a/src/modules/llms/server/openai/models/models.data.ts
+++ b/src/modules/llms/server/openai/models/models.data.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-import { LLM_IF_OAI_Chat } from '~/common/stores/llms/llms.types';
+import { LLM_IF_OAI_Chat, LLM_IF_OAI_Fn, LLM_IF_OAI_Reasoning, LLM_IF_OAI_Vision } from '~/common/stores/llms/llms.types';
+import { capitalizeFirstLetter } from '~/common/util/textUtils';
 
 import type { ModelDescriptionSchema } from '../../llm.server.types';
 
@@ -27,34 +28,61 @@ export function lmStudioModelToModelDescription(modelId: string): ModelDescripti
 
 
 // [LocalAI]
-const _knownLocalAIChatModels: ManualMappings = [
-  {
-    idPrefix: 'ggml-gpt4all-j',
-    label: 'GPT4All-J',
-    description: 'GPT4All-J on LocalAI',
-    contextWindow: 2048,
-    interfaces: [LLM_IF_OAI_Chat],
-  },
-  {
-    idPrefix: 'luna-ai-llama2',
-    label: 'Luna AI Llama2 Uncensored',
-    description: 'Luna AI Llama2 on LocalAI',
-    contextWindow: 4096,
-    interfaces: [LLM_IF_OAI_Chat],
-  },
+const _knownLocalAIChatModels: ManualMappings = [];
+const _knownLocalAIPrice = { input: 'free', output: 'free' } as const;
+const _hideLocalAIModels = [
+  'jina-reranker-v1-base-en', // vector search
+  'stablediffusion', // text-to-image
+  'text-embedding-ada-002', // embedding generator
+  'tts-1', // text-to-speech
+  'whisper-1', // speech-to-text
 ];
 
+export function localAIModelSortFn(a: ModelDescriptionSchema, b: ModelDescriptionSchema): number {
+  // hidden to the bottom
+  if (a.hidden && !b.hidden) return 1;
+  if (!a.hidden && b.hidden) return -1;
+
+  // keep the order from the API
+  return 0;
+}
+
+
 export function localAIModelToModelDescription(modelId: string): ModelDescriptionSchema {
+
+  // heurisics to extract a label from the model ID
+  const label = modelId
+    .replace('.gguf', '')
+    .replace('ggml-', '')
+    .replace('.bin', '')
+    .replaceAll('-', ' ')
+    .replace(' Q4_K_M', ' (Q4_K_M)')
+    .replace(' F16', ' (F16)')
+    .split(' ')
+    .map(capitalizeFirstLetter)
+    .join(' ');
+
+  const description = `LocalAI model. File: ${modelId}`;
+
+  // very dull heuristics
+  const interfaces = [LLM_IF_OAI_Chat, LLM_IF_OAI_Fn];
+  if (modelId.includes('vision') || modelId.includes('llava'))
+    interfaces.push(LLM_IF_OAI_Vision);
+  if (modelId.includes('r1'))
+    interfaces.push(LLM_IF_OAI_Reasoning);
+
   return fromManualMapping(_knownLocalAIChatModels, modelId, undefined, undefined, {
     idPrefix: modelId,
-    label: modelId
-      .replace('ggml-', '')
-      .replace('.bin', '')
-      .replaceAll('-', ' '),
-    description: 'Unknown localAI model. Please update `models.data.ts` with this ID',
+    label,
+    description,
     contextWindow: null, // 'not provided'
-    interfaces: [LLM_IF_OAI_Chat], // assume..
-    chatPrice: { input: 'free', output: 'free' },
+    interfaces,
+    // parameterSpecs
+    // maxCompletionTokens
+    // trainingDataCutoff
+    // benchmark
+    chatPrice: _knownLocalAIPrice,
+    hidden: _hideLocalAIModels.includes(modelId),
   });
 }
 
diff --git a/src/modules/llms/server/openai/openai.router.ts b/src/modules/llms/server/openai/openai.router.ts
index 925498b58..977312362 100644
--- a/src/modules/llms/server/openai/openai.router.ts
+++ b/src/modules/llms/server/openai/openai.router.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import { ListModelsResponse_schema, ModelDescriptionSchema } from '../llm.server
 import { azureModelToModelDescription, openAIModelFilter, openAIModelToModelDescription, openAISortModels } from './models/openai.models';
 import { deepseekModelFilter, deepseekModelSort, deepseekModelToModelDescription } from './models/deepseek.models';
 import { groqModelFilter, groqModelSortFn, groqModelToModelDescription } from './models/groq.models';
-import { lmStudioModelToModelDescription, localAIModelToModelDescription } from './models/models.data';
+import { lmStudioModelToModelDescription, localAIModelToModelDescription, localAIModelSortFn } from './models/models.data';
 import { mistralModelsSort, mistralModelToModelDescription } from './models/mistral.models';
 import { openPipeModelDescriptions, openPipeModelSort, openPipeModelToModelDescriptions } from './models/openpipe.models';
 import { openRouterModelFamilySortFn, openRouterModelToModelDescription } from './models/openrouter.models';
@@ -177,7 +177,8 @@ export const llmOpenAIRouter = createTRPCRouter({
         // [LocalAI]: map id to label
         case 'localai':
           models = openAIModels
-            .map(model => localAIModelToModelDescription(model.id));
+            .map(({ id }) => localAIModelToModelDescription(id))
+            .sort(localAIModelSortFn);
           break;
 
         case 'mistral':