diff --git a/packages/core/src/chat.ts b/packages/core/src/chat.ts
index f39d7e7ed..9a5fec966 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/chat.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/chat.ts
@@ -833,6 +833,14 @@ export function collapseChatMessages(messages: ChatCompletionMessageParam[]) {
             })
         }
     }
+
+    // remove emty text contents
+    messages
+        .filter((m) => m.role === "user")
+        .forEach((m) => {
+            if (typeof m.content !== "string")
+                m.content = m.content.filter((c) => c.type !== "text" || c.text)
+        })
 }
 
 export async function executeChatSession(
diff --git a/packages/core/src/llms.json b/packages/core/src/llms.json
index 278551bd7..61ccebe37 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/llms.json
+++ b/packages/core/src/llms.json
@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@
             "prediction": false,
             "aliases": {
                 "large": "claude-3-5-sonnet-latest",
-                "small": "claude-3-5-haiku-latest"
+                "small": "claude-3-5-haiku-latest",
+                "vision": "claude-3-5-sonnet-latest"
             }
         },
         {
@@ -85,7 +86,7 @@
                 "large": "Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct",
                 "small": "Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct",
                 "vision": "Qwen/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct",
-                "embeddings": "nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5",
+                "embeddings": "nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5:",
                 "reasoning": "Qwen/QwQ-32B-Preview",
                 "reasoning_small": "Qwen/QwQ-32B-Preview"
             }