diff --git a/llama_stack/providers/remote/inference/nvidia/nvidia.py b/llama_stack/providers/remote/inference/nvidia/nvidia.py
index f790c2312..cb7554523 100644
--- a/llama_stack/providers/remote/inference/nvidia/nvidia.py
+++ b/llama_stack/providers/remote/inference/nvidia/nvidia.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import warnings
 from collections.abc import AsyncIterator
 from typing import Any
 
-from openai import APIConnectionError, AsyncOpenAI, BadRequestError
+from openai import APIConnectionError, AsyncOpenAI, BadRequestError, NotFoundError
 
 from llama_stack.apis.common.content_types import (
     InterleavedContent,
@@ -40,11 +40,7 @@ from llama_stack.apis.inference import (
     ToolChoice,
     ToolConfig,
 )
-from llama_stack.apis.models import Model, ModelType
 from llama_stack.models.llama.datatypes import ToolDefinition, ToolPromptFormat
-from llama_stack.providers.utils.inference import (
-    ALL_HUGGINGFACE_REPOS_TO_MODEL_DESCRIPTOR,
-)
 from llama_stack.providers.utils.inference.model_registry import (
     ModelRegistryHelper,
 )
@@ -92,6 +88,22 @@ class NVIDIAInferenceAdapter(Inference, ModelRegistryHelper):
 
         self._config = config
 
+    async def check_model_availability(self, model: str) -> bool:
+        """
+        Check if a specific model is available.
+
+        :param model: The model identifier to check.
+        :return: True if the model is available dynamically, False otherwise.
+        """
+        try:
+            await self._client.models.retrieve(model)
+            return True
+        except NotFoundError:
+            logger.error(f"Model {model} is not available")
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.error(f"Failed to check model availability: {e}")
+        return False
+
     @property
     def _client(self) -> AsyncOpenAI:
         """
@@ -380,44 +392,3 @@ class NVIDIAInferenceAdapter(Inference, ModelRegistryHelper):
             return await self._client.chat.completions.create(**params)
         except APIConnectionError as e:
             raise ConnectionError(f"Failed to connect to NVIDIA NIM at {self._config.url}: {e}") from e
-
-    async def register_model(self, model: Model) -> Model:
-        """
-        Allow non-llama model registration.
-
-        Non-llama model registration: API Catalogue models, post-training models, etc.
-            client = LlamaStackAsLibraryClient("nvidia")
-            client.models.register(
-                    model_id="mistralai/mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v0.1",
-                    model_type=ModelType.llm,
-                    provider_id="nvidia",
-                    provider_model_id="mistralai/mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v0.1"
-            )
-
-            NOTE: Only supports models endpoints compatible with AsyncOpenAI base_url format.
-        """
-        if model.model_type == ModelType.embedding:
-            # embedding models are always registered by their provider model id and does not need to be mapped to a llama model
-            provider_resource_id = model.provider_resource_id
-        else:
-            provider_resource_id = self.get_provider_model_id(model.provider_resource_id)
-
-        if provider_resource_id:
-            model.provider_resource_id = provider_resource_id
-        else:
-            llama_model = model.metadata.get("llama_model")
-            existing_llama_model = self.get_llama_model(model.provider_resource_id)
-            if existing_llama_model:
-                if existing_llama_model != llama_model:
-                    raise ValueError(
-                        f"Provider model id '{model.provider_resource_id}' is already registered to a different llama model: '{existing_llama_model}'"
-                    )
-            else:
-                # not llama model
-                if llama_model in ALL_HUGGINGFACE_REPOS_TO_MODEL_DESCRIPTOR:
-                    self.provider_id_to_llama_model_map[model.provider_resource_id] = (
-                        ALL_HUGGINGFACE_REPOS_TO_MODEL_DESCRIPTOR[llama_model]
-                    )
-                else:
-                    self.alias_to_provider_id_map[model.provider_model_id] = model.provider_model_id
-        return model
diff --git a/tests/unit/providers/nvidia/test_supervised_fine_tuning.py b/tests/unit/providers/nvidia/test_supervised_fine_tuning.py
index f75b0add9..bbbb60a30 100644
--- a/tests/unit/providers/nvidia/test_supervised_fine_tuning.py
+++ b/tests/unit/providers/nvidia/test_supervised_fine_tuning.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 import os
 import unittest
 import warnings
-from unittest.mock import patch
+from unittest.mock import AsyncMock, patch
 
 import pytest
 
@@ -343,7 +343,11 @@ class TestNvidiaPostTraining(unittest.TestCase):
             provider_resource_id=model_id,
             model_type=model_type,
         )
-        result = self.run_async(self.inference_adapter.register_model(model))
+
+        # simulate a NIM where default/job-1234 is an available model
+        with patch.object(self.inference_adapter, "check_model_availability", new_callable=AsyncMock) as mock_check:
+            mock_check.return_value = True
+            result = self.run_async(self.inference_adapter.register_model(model))
         assert result == model
         assert len(self.inference_adapter.alias_to_provider_id_map) > 1
         assert self.inference_adapter.get_provider_model_id(model.provider_model_id) == model_id