diff --git a/backend/open_webui/main.py b/backend/open_webui/main.py
index 8184b467b..5261d440f 100644
--- a/backend/open_webui/main.py
+++ b/backend/open_webui/main.py
@@ -62,8 +62,12 @@ from open_webui.routers import (
     users,
     utils,
 )
-
 from open_webui.retrieval.utils import get_sources_from_files
+from open_webui.routers.retrieval import (
+    get_embedding_function,
+    update_embedding_model,
+    update_reranking_model,
+)
 
 
 from open_webui.socket.main import (
@@ -73,15 +77,16 @@ from open_webui.socket.main import (
     get_event_emitter,
 )
 
-
 from open_webui.internal.db import Session
 
 
-from backend.open_webui.routers.webui import (
+from open_webui.routers.webui import (
     app as webui_app,
     generate_function_chat_completion,
     get_all_models as get_open_webui_models,
 )
+
+
 from open_webui.models.functions import Functions
 from open_webui.models.models import Models
 from open_webui.models.users import UserModel, Users
@@ -523,6 +528,34 @@ app.state.sentence_transformer_rf = None
 app.state.YOUTUBE_LOADER_TRANSLATION = None
 
 
+app.state.EMBEDDING_FUNCTION = get_embedding_function(
+    app.state.config.RAG_EMBEDDING_ENGINE,
+    app.state.config.RAG_EMBEDDING_MODEL,
+    app.state.sentence_transformer_ef,
+    (
+        app.state.config.OPENAI_API_BASE_URL
+        if app.state.config.RAG_EMBEDDING_ENGINE == "openai"
+        else app.state.config.OLLAMA_BASE_URL
+    ),
+    (
+        app.state.config.OPENAI_API_KEY
+        if app.state.config.RAG_EMBEDDING_ENGINE == "openai"
+        else app.state.config.OLLAMA_API_KEY
+    ),
+    app.state.config.RAG_EMBEDDING_BATCH_SIZE,
+)
+
+update_embedding_model(
+    app.state.config.RAG_EMBEDDING_MODEL,
+    RAG_EMBEDDING_MODEL_AUTO_UPDATE,
+)
+
+update_reranking_model(
+    app.state.config.RAG_RERANKING_MODEL,
+    RAG_RERANKING_MODEL_AUTO_UPDATE,
+)
+
+
 ########################################
 #
 # IMAGES
diff --git a/backend/open_webui/routers/retrieval.py b/backend/open_webui/routers/retrieval.py
index 7e0dc6018..5cd7209a8 100644
--- a/backend/open_webui/routers/retrieval.py
+++ b/backend/open_webui/routers/retrieval.py
@@ -155,17 +155,6 @@ def update_reranking_model(
         request.app.state.sentence_transformer_rf = None
 
 
-update_embedding_model(
-    request.app.state.config.RAG_EMBEDDING_MODEL,
-    RAG_EMBEDDING_MODEL_AUTO_UPDATE,
-)
-
-update_reranking_model(
-    request.app.state.config.RAG_RERANKING_MODEL,
-    RAG_RERANKING_MODEL_AUTO_UPDATE,
-)
-
-
 ##########################################
 #
 # API routes
@@ -176,24 +165,6 @@ update_reranking_model(
 router = APIRouter()
 
 
-request.app.state.EMBEDDING_FUNCTION = get_embedding_function(
-    request.app.state.config.RAG_EMBEDDING_ENGINE,
-    request.app.state.config.RAG_EMBEDDING_MODEL,
-    request.app.state.sentence_transformer_ef,
-    (
-        request.app.state.config.OPENAI_API_BASE_URL
-        if request.app.state.config.RAG_EMBEDDING_ENGINE == "openai"
-        else request.app.state.config.OLLAMA_BASE_URL
-    ),
-    (
-        request.app.state.config.OPENAI_API_KEY
-        if request.app.state.config.RAG_EMBEDDING_ENGINE == "openai"
-        else request.app.state.config.OLLAMA_API_KEY
-    ),
-    request.app.state.config.RAG_EMBEDDING_BATCH_SIZE,
-)
-
-
 class CollectionNameForm(BaseModel):
     collection_name: Optional[str] = None