diff --git a/packages/jupyter-ai-magics/jupyter_ai_magics/__init__.py b/packages/jupyter-ai-magics/jupyter_ai_magics/__init__.py
index 176e30ada..a00d4877c 100644
--- a/packages/jupyter-ai-magics/jupyter_ai_magics/__init__.py
+++ b/packages/jupyter-ai-magics/jupyter_ai_magics/__init__.py
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
     BedrockChatProvider,
     BedrockProvider,
     ChatAnthropicProvider,
-    ChatNVIDIAProvider,
     ChatOpenAIProvider,
     CohereProvider,
     GPT4AllProvider,
diff --git a/packages/jupyter-ai-magics/jupyter_ai_magics/partner_providers/nvidia.py b/packages/jupyter-ai-magics/jupyter_ai_magics/partner_providers/nvidia.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..26137eb9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/jupyter-ai-magics/jupyter_ai_magics/partner_providers/nvidia.py
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+from jupyter_ai_magics.providers import BaseProvider, EnvAuthStrategy
+from langchain_nvidia_ai_endpoints import ChatNVIDIA
+
+
+class ChatNVIDIAProvider(BaseProvider, ChatNVIDIA):
+    id = "nvidia-chat"
+    name = "NVIDIA"
+    models = [
+        "playground_llama2_70b",
+        "playground_nemotron_steerlm_8b",
+        "playground_mistral_7b",
+        "playground_nv_llama2_rlhf_70b",
+        "playground_llama2_13b",
+        "playground_steerlm_llama_70b",
+        "playground_llama2_code_13b",
+        "playground_yi_34b",
+        "playground_mixtral_8x7b",
+        "playground_neva_22b",
+        "playground_llama2_code_34b",
+    ]
+    model_id_key = "model"
+    auth_strategy = EnvAuthStrategy(name="NVIDIA_API_KEY")
+    pypi_package_deps = ["langchain_nvidia_ai_endpoints"]
diff --git a/packages/jupyter-ai-magics/jupyter_ai_magics/providers.py b/packages/jupyter-ai-magics/jupyter_ai_magics/providers.py
index 9053a2752..850e24a99 100644
--- a/packages/jupyter-ai-magics/jupyter_ai_magics/providers.py
+++ b/packages/jupyter-ai-magics/jupyter_ai_magics/providers.py
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
     OpenAI,
     SagemakerEndpoint,
 )
-from langchain_nvidia_ai_endpoints import ChatNVIDIA
 
 # this is necessary because `langchain.pydantic_v1.main` does not include
 # `ModelMetaclass`, as it is not listed in `__all__` by the `pydantic.main`
@@ -859,23 +858,3 @@ class QianfanProvider(BaseProvider, QianfanChatEndpoint):
     model_id_key = "model_name"
     pypi_package_deps = ["qianfan"]
     auth_strategy = MultiEnvAuthStrategy(names=["QIANFAN_AK", "QIANFAN_SK"])
-
-
-class ChatNVIDIAProvider(BaseProvider, ChatNVIDIA):
-    id = "nvidia-chat"
-    name = "NVIDIA"
-    models = [
-        "playground_llama2_70b",
-        "playground_nemotron_steerlm_8b",
-        "playground_mistral_7b",
-        "playground_nv_llama2_rlhf_70b",
-        "playground_llama2_13b",
-        "playground_steerlm_llama_70b",
-        "playground_llama2_code_13b",
-        "playground_yi_34b",
-        "playground_mixtral_8x7b",
-        "playground_neva_22b",
-        "playground_llama2_code_34b",
-    ]
-    model_id_key = "model"
-    auth_strategy = EnvAuthStrategy(name="NVIDIA_API_KEY")
diff --git a/packages/jupyter-ai-magics/jupyter_ai_magics/utils.py b/packages/jupyter-ai-magics/jupyter_ai_magics/utils.py
index 0441d707c..983bbf2d5 100644
--- a/packages/jupyter-ai-magics/jupyter_ai_magics/utils.py
+++ b/packages/jupyter-ai-magics/jupyter_ai_magics/utils.py
@@ -26,16 +26,22 @@ def get_lm_providers(
         restrictions = {"allowed_providers": None, "blocked_providers": None}
     providers = {}
     eps = entry_points()
-    model_provider_eps = eps.select(group="jupyter_ai.model_providers")
-    for model_provider_ep in model_provider_eps:
+    provider_ep_group = eps.select(group="jupyter_ai.model_providers")
+    for provider_ep in provider_ep_group:
         try:
-            provider = model_provider_ep.load()
+            provider = provider_ep.load()
+        except ImportError as e:
+            log.warning(
+                f"Unable to load model provider `{provider_ep.name}`. Please install the `{e.name}` package."
+            )
+            continue
         except Exception as e:
             log.error(
-                f"Unable to load model provider class from entry point `{model_provider_ep.name}`: %s.",
-                e,
+                f"Unable to load model provider `{provider_ep.name}`. Printing full exception below."
             )
+            log.exception(e)
             continue
+
         if not is_provider_allowed(provider.id, restrictions):
             log.info(f"Skipping blocked provider `{provider.id}`.")
             continue
diff --git a/packages/jupyter-ai-magics/pyproject.toml b/packages/jupyter-ai-magics/pyproject.toml
index 138b79ee3..377776fba 100644
--- a/packages/jupyter-ai-magics/pyproject.toml
+++ b/packages/jupyter-ai-magics/pyproject.toml
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ amazon-bedrock = "jupyter_ai_magics:BedrockProvider"
 anthropic-chat = "jupyter_ai_magics:ChatAnthropicProvider"
 amazon-bedrock-chat = "jupyter_ai_magics:BedrockChatProvider"
 qianfan = "jupyter_ai_magics:QianfanProvider"
-nvidia-chat = "jupyter_ai_magics:ChatNVIDIAProvider"
+nvidia-chat = "jupyter_ai_magics.partner_providers.nvidia:ChatNVIDIAProvider"
 
 [project.entry-points."jupyter_ai.embeddings_model_providers"]
 bedrock = "jupyter_ai_magics:BedrockEmbeddingsProvider"