diff --git a/gpt4all-chat/CHANGELOG.md b/gpt4all-chat/CHANGELOG.md
index e888e2fa..96881f1a 100644
--- a/gpt4all-chat/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/gpt4all-chat/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/).
 ### Added
 - Support DeepSeek-R1 Qwen models ([#3431](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/3431))
 - Support for think tags in the GUI ([#3440](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/3440))
+- Support specifying SHA256 hash in models3.json instead of MD5 ([#3437](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/3437))
 
 ### Changed
 - Use minja instead of Jinja2Cpp for significantly improved template compatibility ([#3433](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/3433))
diff --git a/gpt4all-chat/metadata/models3.json b/gpt4all-chat/metadata/models3.json
index d829fad0..654fe18d 100644
--- a/gpt4all-chat/metadata/models3.json
+++ b/gpt4all-chat/metadata/models3.json
@@ -32,6 +32,66 @@
     "systemPrompt": "",
     "chatTemplate": "{%- set loop_messages = messages %}\n{%- for message in loop_messages %}\n    {%- set content = '<|start_header_id|>' + message['role'] + '<|end_header_id|>\\n\\n'+ message['content'] | trim + '<|eot_id|>' %}\n    {{- content }}\n{%- endfor %}\n{%- if add_generation_prompt %}\n    {{- '<|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|>\\n\\n' }}\n{%- endif %}"
   },
+  {
+    "order": "aa1",
+    "sha256sum": "5cd4ee65211770f1d99b4f6f4951780b9ef40e29314bd6542bb5bd0ad0bc29d1",
+    "name": "DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B",
+    "filename": "DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-Q4_0.gguf",
+    "filesize": "4444121056",
+    "requires": "3.8.0",
+    "ramrequired": "8",
+    "parameters": "7 billion",
+    "quant": "q4_0",
+    "type": "deepseek",
+    "description": "<p>The official Qwen2.5-Math-7B distillation of DeepSeek-R1.</p><ul><li>License: <a href=\"https://opensource.org/license/mit\">MIT</a></li><li>No restrictions on commercial use</li><li>#reasoning</li></ul>",
+    "url": "https://huggingface.co/bartowski/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-GGUF/resolve/main/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-Q4_0.gguf",
+    "chatTemplate": "{%- if not add_generation_prompt is defined %}\n    {%- set add_generation_prompt = false %}\n{%- endif %}\n{%- if messages[0]['role'] == 'system' %}\n    {{- messages[0]['content'] }}\n{%- endif %}\n{%- for message in messages %}\n    {%- if message['role'] == 'user' %}\n        {{- '<｜User｜>' + message['content'] }}\n    {%- endif %}\n    {%- if message['role'] == 'assistant' %}\n        {%- set content = message['content'] | regex_replace('^[\\\\s\\\\S]*</think>', '') %}\n        {{- '<｜Assistant｜>' + content + '<｜end▁of▁sentence｜>' }}\n    {%- endif %}\n{%- endfor -%}\n{%- if add_generation_prompt %}\n    {{- '<｜Assistant｜>' }}\n{%- endif %}"
+  },
+  {
+    "order": "aa2",
+    "sha256sum": "906b3382f2680f4ce845459b4a122e904002b075238080307586bcffcde49eef",
+    "name": "DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B",
+    "filename": "DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B-Q4_0.gguf",
+    "filesize": "8544267680",
+    "requires": "3.8.0",
+    "ramrequired": "16",
+    "parameters": "14 billion",
+    "quant": "q4_0",
+    "type": "deepseek",
+    "description": "<p>The official Qwen2.5-14B distillation of DeepSeek-R1.</p><ul><li>License: <a href=\"https://opensource.org/license/mit\">MIT</a></li><li>No restrictions on commercial use</li><li>#reasoning</li></ul>",
+    "url": "https://huggingface.co/bartowski/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B-GGUF/resolve/main/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B-Q4_0.gguf",
+    "chatTemplate": "{%- if not add_generation_prompt is defined %}\n    {%- set add_generation_prompt = false %}\n{%- endif %}\n{%- if messages[0]['role'] == 'system' %}\n    {{- messages[0]['content'] }}\n{%- endif %}\n{%- for message in messages %}\n    {%- if message['role'] == 'user' %}\n        {{- '<｜User｜>' + message['content'] }}\n    {%- endif %}\n    {%- if message['role'] == 'assistant' %}\n        {%- set content = message['content'] | regex_replace('^[\\\\s\\\\S]*</think>', '') %}\n        {{- '<｜Assistant｜>' + content + '<｜end▁of▁sentence｜>' }}\n    {%- endif %}\n{%- endfor -%}\n{%- if add_generation_prompt %}\n    {{- '<｜Assistant｜>' }}\n{%- endif %}"
+  },
+  {
+    "order": "aa3",
+    "sha256sum": "0eb93e436ac8beec18aceb958c120d282cb2cf5451b23185e7be268fe9d375cc",
+    "name": "DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B",
+    "filename": "DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-Q4_0.gguf",
+    "filesize": "4675894112",
+    "requires": "3.8.0",
+    "ramrequired": "8",
+    "parameters": "8 billion",
+    "quant": "q4_0",
+    "type": "deepseek",
+    "description": "<p>The official Llama-3.1-8B distillation of DeepSeek-R1.</p><ul><li>License: <a href=\"https://opensource.org/license/mit\">MIT</a></li><li>No restrictions on commercial use</li><li>#reasoning</li></ul>",
+    "url": "https://huggingface.co/bartowski/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-GGUF/resolve/main/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-Q4_0.gguf",
+    "chatTemplate": "{%- if not add_generation_prompt is defined %}\n    {%- set add_generation_prompt = false %}\n{%- endif %}\n{%- if messages[0]['role'] == 'system' %}\n    {{- messages[0]['content'] }}\n{%- endif %}\n{%- for message in messages %}\n    {%- if message['role'] == 'user' %}\n        {{- '<｜User｜>' + message['content'] }}\n    {%- endif %}\n    {%- if message['role'] == 'assistant' %}\n        {%- set content = message['content'] | regex_replace('^[\\\\s\\\\S]*</think>', '') %}\n        {{- '<｜Assistant｜>' + content + '<｜end▁of▁sentence｜>' }}\n    {%- endif %}\n{%- endfor -%}\n{%- if add_generation_prompt %}\n    {{- '<｜Assistant｜>' }}\n{%- endif %}"
+  },
+  {
+    "order": "aa4",
+    "sha256sum": "b3af887d0a015b39fab2395e4faf682c1a81a6a3fd09a43f0d4292f7d94bf4d0",
+    "name": "DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B",
+    "filename": "DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B-Q4_0.gguf",
+    "filesize": "1068807776",
+    "requires": "3.8.0",
+    "ramrequired": "3",
+    "parameters": "1.5 billion",
+    "quant": "q4_0",
+    "type": "deepseek",
+    "description": "<p>The official Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B distillation of DeepSeek-R1.</p><ul><li>License: <a href=\"https://opensource.org/license/mit\">MIT</a></li><li>No restrictions on commercial use</li><li>#reasoning</li></ul>",
+    "url": "https://huggingface.co/bartowski/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B-GGUF/resolve/main/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B-Q4_0.gguf",
+    "chatTemplate": "{%- if not add_generation_prompt is defined %}\n    {%- set add_generation_prompt = false %}\n{%- endif %}\n{%- if messages[0]['role'] == 'system' %}\n    {{- messages[0]['content'] }}\n{%- endif %}\n{%- for message in messages %}\n    {%- if message['role'] == 'user' %}\n        {{- '<｜User｜>' + message['content'] }}\n    {%- endif %}\n    {%- if message['role'] == 'assistant' %}\n        {%- set content = message['content'] | regex_replace('^[\\\\s\\\\S]*</think>', '') %}\n        {{- '<｜Assistant｜>' + content + '<｜end▁of▁sentence｜>' }}\n    {%- endif %}\n{%- endfor -%}\n{%- if add_generation_prompt %}\n    {{- '<｜Assistant｜>' }}\n{%- endif %}"
+  },
   {
     "order": "b",
     "md5sum": "27b44e8ae1817525164ddf4f8dae8af4",
@@ -472,7 +532,7 @@
     "filename": "qwen2-1_5b-instruct-q4_0.gguf",
     "filesize": "937532800",
     "requires": "3.0",
-    "ramrequired": "4",
+    "ramrequired": "3",
     "parameters": "1.5 billion",
     "quant": "q4_0",
     "type": "qwen2",
diff --git a/gpt4all-chat/src/modellist.cpp b/gpt4all-chat/src/modellist.cpp
index 63b00b35..d075b770 100644
--- a/gpt4all-chat/src/modellist.cpp
+++ b/gpt4all-chat/src/modellist.cpp
@@ -1621,7 +1621,6 @@ void ModelList::parseModelsJsonFile(const QByteArray &jsonData, bool save)
         QString requiresVersion = obj["requires"].toString();
         QString versionRemoved = obj["removedIn"].toString();
         QString url = obj["url"].toString();
-        QByteArray modelHash = obj["md5sum"].toString().toLatin1();
         bool isDefault = obj.contains("isDefault") && obj["isDefault"] == u"true"_s;
         bool disableGUI = obj.contains("disableGUI") && obj["disableGUI"] == u"true"_s;
         QString description = obj["description"].toString();
@@ -1632,6 +1631,16 @@ void ModelList::parseModelsJsonFile(const QByteArray &jsonData, bool save)
         QString type = obj["type"].toString();
         bool isEmbeddingModel = obj["embeddingModel"].toBool();
 
+        QByteArray modelHash;
+        ModelInfo::HashAlgorithm hashAlgorithm;
+        if (auto it = obj.find("sha256sum"_L1); it != obj.end()) {
+            modelHash = it->toString().toLatin1();
+            hashAlgorithm = ModelInfo::Sha256;
+        } else {
+            modelHash = obj["md5sum"].toString().toLatin1();
+            hashAlgorithm = ModelInfo::Md5;
+        }
+
         // Some models aren't supported in the GUI at all
         if (disableGUI)
             continue;
@@ -1660,7 +1669,7 @@ void ModelList::parseModelsJsonFile(const QByteArray &jsonData, bool save)
             { ModelList::FilenameRole, modelFilename },
             { ModelList::FilesizeRole, modelFilesize },
             { ModelList::HashRole, modelHash },
-            { ModelList::HashAlgorithmRole, ModelInfo::Md5 },
+            { ModelList::HashAlgorithmRole, hashAlgorithm },
             { ModelList::DefaultRole, isDefault },
             { ModelList::DescriptionRole, description },
             { ModelList::RequiresVersionRole, requiresVersion },