diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 37a5c95d..51a55739 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ application:
       contextdir: ../../../model_servers/llamacpp_python
       containerfile: ./base/Containerfile
       model-service: true
-      backend: 
-        - llama
+      backend: llama-cpp
       arch:
         - arm64
         - amd64
diff --git a/recipes/audio/audio_to_text/ai-lab.yaml b/recipes/audio/audio_to_text/ai-lab.yaml
index 2db298d8..f940eba4 100644
--- a/recipes/audio/audio_to_text/ai-lab.yaml
+++ b/recipes/audio/audio_to_text/ai-lab.yaml
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ application:
       contextdir: ../../../model_servers/whispercpp
       containerfile: ./base/Containerfile
       model-service: true
-      backend:
-        - llama
+      backend: whisper-cpp
       arch:
         - arm64
         - amd64
diff --git a/recipes/computer_vision/object_detection/ai-lab.yaml b/recipes/computer_vision/object_detection/ai-lab.yaml
index 5b799b05..cf323e17 100644
--- a/recipes/computer_vision/object_detection/ai-lab.yaml
+++ b/recipes/computer_vision/object_detection/ai-lab.yaml
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ application:
       contextdir: ../../../model_servers/object_detection_python
       containerfile: ./base/Containerfile
       model-service: true
-      backend: 
-        - torch
+      backend: pytorch
       arch:
         - arm64
         - amd64
diff --git a/recipes/multimodal/image_understanding/ai-lab.yaml b/recipes/multimodal/image_understanding/ai-lab.yaml
index 5ef1098a..7e281123 100644
--- a/recipes/multimodal/image_understanding/ai-lab.yaml
+++ b/recipes/multimodal/image_understanding/ai-lab.yaml
@@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ application:
       contextdir: ../../../model_servers/llamacpp_python
       containerfile: ./base/Containerfile
       model-service: true
-      backend:
-        - llama
+      backend: llama-cpp
       arch:
         - arm64
         - amd64
diff --git a/recipes/natural_language_processing/chatbot/ai-lab.yaml b/recipes/natural_language_processing/chatbot/ai-lab.yaml
index fe5cc59a..cf5fb2c9 100644
--- a/recipes/natural_language_processing/chatbot/ai-lab.yaml
+++ b/recipes/natural_language_processing/chatbot/ai-lab.yaml
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ application:
       contextdir: ../../../model_servers/llamacpp_python
       containerfile: ./base/Containerfile
       model-service: true
-      backend:
-        - llama
+      backend: llama-cpp
       arch:
         - arm64
         - amd64
diff --git a/recipes/natural_language_processing/codegen/ai-lab.yaml b/recipes/natural_language_processing/codegen/ai-lab.yaml
index dca3fb14..66c26d53 100644
--- a/recipes/natural_language_processing/codegen/ai-lab.yaml
+++ b/recipes/natural_language_processing/codegen/ai-lab.yaml
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ application:
       contextdir: ../../../model_servers/llamacpp_python
       containerfile: ./base/Containerfile
       model-service: true
-      backend:
-        - llama
+      backend: llama-cpp
       arch:
         - arm64
         - amd64
diff --git a/recipes/natural_language_processing/rag/ai-lab.yaml b/recipes/natural_language_processing/rag/ai-lab.yaml
index fbaf387f..9e20375c 100644
--- a/recipes/natural_language_processing/rag/ai-lab.yaml
+++ b/recipes/natural_language_processing/rag/ai-lab.yaml
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ application:
       contextdir: ../../../model_servers/llamacpp_python
       containerfile: ./base/Containerfile
       model-service: true
-      backend:
-        - llama
+      backend: llama-cpp
       arch:
         - arm64
         - amd64
diff --git a/recipes/natural_language_processing/summarizer/ai-lab.yaml b/recipes/natural_language_processing/summarizer/ai-lab.yaml
index 3ea24289..a0d2548b 100644
--- a/recipes/natural_language_processing/summarizer/ai-lab.yaml
+++ b/recipes/natural_language_processing/summarizer/ai-lab.yaml
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ application:
       contextdir: ../../../model_servers/llamacpp_python
       containerfile: ./base/Containerfile
       model-service: true
-      backend:
-        - llama
+      backend: llama-cpp
       arch:
         - arm64
         - amd64