diff --git a/runtime/models/hypermode.go b/runtime/models/hypermode.go
index bc7aab1bc..9f1b71788 100644
--- a/runtime/models/hypermode.go
+++ b/runtime/models/hypermode.go
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ package models
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"net/http"
 	"os"
@@ -27,11 +28,29 @@ func getHypermodeModelEndpointUrl(model *manifest.ModelInfo) (string, error) {
 	// In development, use the shared Hypermode model server.
 	// Note: Authentication via the Hypermode CLI is required.
 	if config.IsDevEnvironment() {
-		if _, ok := localHypermodeModels[strings.ToLower(model.SourceModel)]; !ok {
-			return "", fmt.Errorf("model %s is not available in the local dev environment", model.SourceModel)
+		// Fetch the JSON data from the URL
+		resp, err := http.Get("https://releases-bucket.hypermode.com/shared-models.json")
+		if err != nil {
+			return "", fmt.Errorf("failed to fetch shared models: %v", err)
 		}
-		endpoint := fmt.Sprintf("https://models.hypermode.host/%s", strings.ToLower(model.SourceModel))
-		return endpoint, nil
+		defer resp.Body.Close()
+
+		// Parse the JSON data into an array of strings
+		var sharedModels []string
+		if err := json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&sharedModels); err != nil {
+			return "", fmt.Errorf("failed to parse shared models: %v", err)
+		}
+
+		// Check if the model exists in the array
+		modelName := strings.ToLower(model.SourceModel)
+		for _, sharedModel := range sharedModels {
+			if sharedModel == modelName {
+				endpoint := fmt.Sprintf("https://models.hypermode.host/%s", modelName)
+				return endpoint, nil
+			}
+		}
+
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("model %s is not available in the local dev environment", model.SourceModel)
 	}
 
 	// In production, use the Hypermode internal model endpoint.
@@ -55,13 +74,3 @@ func authenticateHypermodeModelRequest(ctx context.Context, req *http.Request, c
 	// In production, the Hypermode infrastructure protects the model server.
 	return nil
 }
-
-// cSpell:disable
-// These are the Hypermode models that are available in the local dev environment.
-// This list may be updated as new models are added.
-var localHypermodeModels = map[string]bool{
-	"meta-llama/meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct":                      true,
-	"sentence-transformers/all-minilm-l6-v2":                     true,
-	"antoinemc/distilbart-mnli-github-issues":                    true,
-	"distilbert/distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english": true,
-}