extract cls names list

Author: Jacobsolawetz

roboflow/core/version.py

@@ -307,11 +307,17 @@ def deploy(self, model_type: str, model_path: str) -> None:
                 "The ultralytics python package is required to deploy yolov8 models. Please install it with `pip install ultralytics`"
             )
 
+        class_names = []
+        for i, val in enumerate(m["model"].names):
+            class_names.append((val, m["model"].names[val]))
+        class_names.sort(key=lambda x: x[0])
+        class_names = [x[1] for x in class_names]
+
         # add logic to save torch state dict safely
         if model_type == "yolov8":
             model = torch.load(model_path + "weights/best.pt")
             model_artifacts = {
-                "names": model["model"].names,
+                "names": class_names,
                 "yaml": model["model"].yaml,
                 "nc": model["model"].nc,
                 "args": {