diff --git a/web/src/lib/const.ts b/web/src/lib/const.ts
index 55515f2ae..5000d7a0b 100644
--- a/web/src/lib/const.ts
+++ b/web/src/lib/const.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+/** ONNX embedding models that require local model downloads. GenAI providers are not in this list. */
+export const JINA_EMBEDDING_MODELS = ["jinav1", "jinav2"] as const;
+
 export const supportedLanguageKeys = [
   "en",
   "es",
diff --git a/web/src/pages/Explore.tsx b/web/src/pages/Explore.tsx
index 8f50e982e..35860ed35 100644
--- a/web/src/pages/Explore.tsx
+++ b/web/src/pages/Explore.tsx
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import { toast } from "sonner";
 import useSWR from "swr";
 import useSWRInfinite from "swr/infinite";
 import { useDocDomain } from "@/hooks/use-doc-domain";
+import { JINA_EMBEDDING_MODELS } from "@/lib/const";
 
 const API_LIMIT = 25;
 
@@ -293,7 +294,12 @@ export default function Explore() {
   const modelVersion = config?.semantic_search.model || "jinav1";
   const modelSize = config?.semantic_search.model_size || "small";
 
-  // Text model state
+  // GenAI providers have no local models to download
+  const isGenaiEmbeddings =
+    typeof modelVersion === "string" &&
+    !(JINA_EMBEDDING_MODELS as readonly string[]).includes(modelVersion);
+
+  // Text model state (skipped for GenAI - no local models)
   const { payload: textModelState } = useModelState(
     modelVersion === "jinav1"
       ? "jinaai/jina-clip-v1-text_model_fp16.onnx"
@@ -328,6 +334,10 @@ export default function Explore() {
   );
 
   const allModelsLoaded = useMemo(() => {
+    if (isGenaiEmbeddings) {
+      return true;
+    }
+
     return (
       textModelState === "downloaded" &&
       textTokenizerState === "downloaded" &&
@@ -335,6 +345,7 @@ export default function Explore() {
       visionFeatureExtractorState === "downloaded"
     );
   }, [
+    isGenaiEmbeddings,
     textModelState,
     textTokenizerState,
     visionModelState,
@@ -358,10 +369,11 @@ export default function Explore() {
     !defaultViewLoaded ||
     (config?.semantic_search.enabled &&
       (!reindexState ||
-        !textModelState ||
-        !textTokenizerState ||
-        !visionModelState ||
-        !visionFeatureExtractorState))
+        (!isGenaiEmbeddings &&
+          (!textModelState ||
+            !textTokenizerState ||
+            !visionModelState ||
+            !visionFeatureExtractorState))))
   ) {
     return (
       <ActivityIndicator className="absolute left-1/2 top-1/2 -translate-x-1/2 -translate-y-1/2" />