diff --git a/.config/emacs/init.el b/.config/emacs/init.el
index 29ca4e5..0441264 100644
--- a/.config/emacs/init.el
+++ b/.config/emacs/init.el
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@
          (tags-payload (nth 1 (split-string raw-response "\n\n")))
          (models (gethash "models" (json-parse-string tags-payload)))
          (model-names (mapcar (lambda (model) (gethash "name" model)) models)))
-    model-names))
+    (mapcar #'intern model-names)))
 
 (defun enrich-ollama-models (available library)
   "Enrich the available models with metadata from the library of known models."