diff --git a/rag-service/pom.xml b/rag-service/pom.xml
index 2235690..96d3c12 100644
--- a/rag-service/pom.xml
+++ b/rag-service/pom.xml
@@ -74,17 +74,11 @@
 			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
 		</dependency>
-		<!-- Changed: spring-ai-starter-model-ollama -> spring-ai-starter-model-openai (Groq-compatible) -->
+		<!-- OpenAI-compatible API: Groq for chat, OpenAI for embedding -->
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework.ai</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-ai-starter-model-openai</artifactId>
 		</dependency>
-		<!-- Local ONNX embedding model (Groq does not provide embedding API) -->
-		<!-- Default model: all-MiniLM-L6-v2 (384 dimensions) -->
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.springframework.ai</groupId>
-			<artifactId>spring-ai-starter-model-transformers</artifactId>
-		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework.ai</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-ai-starter-model-chat-memory-repository-jdbc</artifactId>
@@ -160,12 +154,6 @@
 			<groupId>org.springframework.kafka</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-kafka</artifactId>
 		</dependency>
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>ai.djl.pytorch</groupId>
-			<artifactId>pytorch-engine</artifactId>
-			<version>0.32.0</version>
-			<scope>runtime</scope>
-		</dependency>
 	</dependencies>
 	<dependencyManagement>
 		<dependencies>
diff --git a/rag-service/src/main/resources/application.properties b/rag-service/src/main/resources/application.properties
index d4a56a8..928241c 100644
--- a/rag-service/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/rag-service/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -5,10 +5,11 @@ spring.ai.openai.base-url=${SPRING_AI_OPENAI_BASE_URL:https://api.groq.com/opena
 spring.ai.openai.api-key=${SPRING_AI_OPENAI_API_KEY:}
 spring.ai.openai.chat.model=${SPRING_AI_OPENAI_CHAT_MODEL:llama-3.3-70b-versatile}
 spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update
-spring.ai.vectorstore.pgvector.dimensions=384
 
-# --- Embedding model: local ONNX (Groq has no embedding API) ---
-spring.ai.openai.embedding.enabled=false
+# Embedding via OpenAI API (text-embedding-3-small)
+spring.ai.openai.embedding.base-url=https://api.openai.com/v1
+spring.ai.openai.embedding.api-key=${OPENAI_API_KEY:}
+spring.ai.openai.embedding.options.model=text-embedding-3-small
 
 # --- Consul service discovery ---
 spring.cloud.consul.host=${SPRING_CLOUD_CONSUL_HOST:localhost}