diff --git a/llama_stack/providers/inline/inference/meta_reference/inference.py b/llama_stack/providers/inline/inference/meta_reference/inference.py
index 0923d3685..fd65fa10d 100644
--- a/llama_stack/providers/inline/inference/meta_reference/inference.py
+++ b/llama_stack/providers/inline/inference/meta_reference/inference.py
@@ -174,4 +174,4 @@ class MetaReferenceInferenceImpl(
         top_p: float | None = None,
         user: str | None = None,
     ) -> OpenAIChatCompletion | AsyncIterator[OpenAIChatCompletionChunk]:
-        raise NotImplementedError("OpenAI chat completion not supported by sentence transformers provider")
+        raise NotImplementedError("OpenAI chat completion not supported by meta-reference inference provider")