diff --git a/src/vs/platform/void/common/voidSettingsTypes.ts b/src/vs/platform/void/common/voidSettingsTypes.ts
index c704accb..5f02e5d1 100644
--- a/src/vs/platform/void/common/voidSettingsTypes.ts
+++ b/src/vs/platform/void/common/voidSettingsTypes.ts
@@ -141,11 +141,11 @@ export const defaultProviderSettings = {
 	}
 } as const
 
-
 export type ProviderName = keyof typeof defaultProviderSettings
 export const providerNames = Object.keys(defaultProviderSettings) as ProviderName[]
 
-
+export const localProviderNames: ProviderName[] = ['ollama'] // all local names
+export const nonlocalProviderNames = providerNames.filter((name) => !localProviderNames.includes(name)) // all non-local names
 
 type CustomSettingName = UnionOfKeys<typeof defaultProviderSettings[ProviderName]>
 type CustomProviderSettings<providerName extends ProviderName> = {
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ export const displayInfoOfProviderName = (providerName: ProviderName): DisplayIn
 	}
 	else if (providerName === 'openAICompatible') {
 		return {
-			title: 'OpenAI-Compatible',
+			title: 'Other',
 		}
 	}
 	else if (providerName === 'gemini') {
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/browser/react/src/markdown/ChatMarkdownRender.tsx b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/browser/react/src/markdown/ChatMarkdownRender.tsx
index 73c7160d..9a40d646 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/browser/react/src/markdown/ChatMarkdownRender.tsx
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/browser/react/src/markdown/ChatMarkdownRender.tsx
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ const RenderToken = ({ token, nested = false }: { token: Token | string, nested?
 	// inline code
 	if (t.type === "codespan") {
 		return (
-			<code className="text-vscode-editor-fg bg-vscode-editor-bg px-1 rounded-sm font-mono">
+			<code className="text-vscode-text-preformat-fg bg-vscode-text-preformat-bg px-1 rounded-sm font-mono">
 				{t.text}
 			</code>
 		)
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/browser/react/src/void-settings-tsx/Settings.tsx b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/browser/react/src/void-settings-tsx/Settings.tsx
index f060e066..d4db44cf 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/browser/react/src/void-settings-tsx/Settings.tsx
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/browser/react/src/void-settings-tsx/Settings.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import React, { useCallback, useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState } from 'react'
 import { InputBox } from '../../../../../../../base/browser/ui/inputbox/inputBox.js'
-import { ProviderName, SettingName, displayInfoOfSettingName, providerNames, VoidModelInfo, featureFlagNames, displayInfoOfFeatureFlag, customSettingNamesOfProvider, RefreshableProviderName, refreshableProviderNames, displayInfoOfProviderName, defaultProviderSettings } from '../../../../../../../platform/void/common/voidSettingsTypes.js'
+import { ProviderName, SettingName, displayInfoOfSettingName, providerNames, VoidModelInfo, featureFlagNames, displayInfoOfFeatureFlag, customSettingNamesOfProvider, RefreshableProviderName, refreshableProviderNames, displayInfoOfProviderName, defaultProviderSettings, nonlocalProviderNames, localProviderNames } from '../../../../../../../platform/void/common/voidSettingsTypes.js'
 import ErrorBoundary from '../sidebar-tsx/ErrorBoundary.js'
 import { VoidCheckBox, VoidInputBox, VoidSelectBox, VoidSwitch } from '../util/inputs.js'
 import { useAccessor, useIsDark, useRefreshModelListener, useRefreshModelState, useSettingsState } from '../util/services.js'
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ export const ModelDump = () => {
 const ProviderSetting = ({ providerName, settingName }: { providerName: ProviderName, settingName: SettingName }) => {
 
 
-	const { title: providerTitle, } = displayInfoOfProviderName(providerName)
+	// const { title: providerTitle, } = displayInfoOfProviderName(providerName)
 
 	const { title: settingTitle, placeholder, subTextMd } = displayInfoOfSettingName(providerName, settingName)
 
@@ -231,7 +231,8 @@ const ProviderSetting = ({ providerName, settingName }: { providerName: Provider
 	return <ErrorBoundary>
 		<div className='my-1'>
 			<VoidInputBox
-				placeholder={`${providerTitle} ${settingTitle} (${placeholder}).`}
+				// placeholder={`${providerTitle} ${settingTitle} (${placeholder}).`}
+				placeholder={`${settingTitle} (${placeholder}).`}
 				onChangeText={useCallback((newVal) => {
 					if (weChangedTextRef) return
 					voidSettingsService.setSettingOfProvider(providerName, settingName, newVal)
@@ -315,7 +316,7 @@ const SettingsForProvider = ({ providerName }: { providerName: ProviderName }) =
 }
 
 
-export const VoidProviderSettings = () => {
+export const VoidProviderSettings = ({ providerNames }: { providerNames: ProviderName[] }) => {
 	return <>
 		{providerNames.map(providerName =>
 			<SettingsForProvider key={providerName} providerName={providerName} />
@@ -406,12 +407,29 @@ export const Settings = () => {
 					<div className='w-full overflow-y-auto'>
 
 						<div className={`${tab !== 'models' ? 'hidden' : ''}`}>
-							<h2 className={`text-3xl mb-2`}>Providers</h2>
+							<h2 className={`text-3xl mb-2`}>Local Providers</h2>
+							<h3 className={`text-md opacity-50 mb-2`}>{`Keep your data private by hosting AI locally on your computer.`}</h3>
+							<h3 className={`text-md opacity-50 mb-2`}>{`Instructions:`}</h3>
+							<div className='pl-4 select-text'>
+								<h4 className={`text-xs opacity-50 mb-2`}><ChatMarkdownRender string={`1. Download [Ollama](https://ollama.com/download).`} /></h4>
+								<h4 className={`text-xs opacity-50 mb-2`}><ChatMarkdownRender string={`2. Open your terminal.`} /></h4>
+								<h4 className={`text-xs opacity-50 mb-2`}><ChatMarkdownRender string={`3. Run \`ollama run llama3.1\`. This model has similar performance to GPT-type models and requires 5GB of memory.`} /></h4>
+								<h4 className={`text-xs opacity-50 mb-2`}><ChatMarkdownRender string={`4. Run \`ollama run qwen2.5-coder:1.5b\`. This is a faster autocomplete model and requires 1GB of memory.`} /></h4>
+								<h4 className={`text-xs opacity-50 mb-2`}><ChatMarkdownRender string={`5. Void will automatically detect your Ollama models, but you can customize your endpoint and manually enter models below.`} /></h4>
+								{/* TODO we should create UI for downloading models without user going into terminal */}
+							</div>
+
 							<ErrorBoundary>
-								<VoidProviderSettings />
+								<VoidProviderSettings providerNames={localProviderNames} />
 							</ErrorBoundary>
 
-							<h2 className={`text-3xl mb-2 mt-4`}>Models</h2>
+							<h2 className={`text-3xl mb-2 mt-16`}>More Providers</h2>
+							<h3 className={`text-md opacity-50 mb-2`}>{`Access models like ChatGPT and Claude. We recommend using Anthropic or OpenAI as providers, or Groq as a faster alternative.`}</h3>
+							<ErrorBoundary>
+								<VoidProviderSettings providerNames={nonlocalProviderNames} />
+							</ErrorBoundary>
+
+							<h2 className={`text-3xl mb-2 mt-16`}>Models</h2>
 							<ErrorBoundary>
 								<VoidFeatureFlagSettings />
 								<RefreshableModels />
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/browser/react/tailwind.config.js b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/browser/react/tailwind.config.js
index 972d9b18..9d488e83 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/browser/react/tailwind.config.js
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/browser/react/tailwind.config.js
@@ -103,6 +103,10 @@ module.exports = {
 
 					// other colors (these are partially complete)
 
+					// text formatting
+					"text-preformat-bg": "var(--vscode-textPreformat-background)",
+					"text-preformat-fg": "var(--vscode-textPreformat-foreground)",
+
 					// editor colors
 					"editor-bg": "var(--vscode-editor-background)",
 					"editor-fg": "var(--vscode-editor-foreground)",