diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index accad0b79..fdce5e339 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -26,6 +26,14 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   has any effect. Noise gating is now handled automatically by the AIC VAD
   system. Use `AICFilter.create_vad_analyzer()` for VAD functionality instead.
 
+- NVIDIA Services name changes (all functionality is unchanged):
+
+  - `NimLLMService` is now deprecated, use `NvidiaLLMService` instead.
+  - `RivaSTTService` is now deprecated, use `NvidiaSTTService` instead.
+  - `RivaTTSService` is now deprecated, use `NvidiaTTSService` instead.
+  - Use `uv pip install pipecat-ai[nvidia]` instead of
+    `uv pip install pipecat-ai[nim]` or `uv pip install pipecat-ai[riva]`
+
 ### Fixed
 
 - Fixed an issue in `SarvamTTSService` where the last sentence was not being
@@ -315,14 +323,6 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - `english_normalization` input parameter for `MiniMaxHttpTTSService` is
   deprecated, use `test_normalization` instead.
 
-- NVIDIA Services name changes (all functionality is unchanged):
-
-  - `NimLLMService` is now deprecated, use `NvidiaLLMService` instead.
-  - `RivaSTTService` is now deprecated, use `NvidiaSTTService` instead.
-  - `RivaTTSService` is now deprecated, use `NvidiaTTSService` instead.
-  - Use `uv pip install pipecat-ai[nvidia]` instead of
-    `uv pip install pipecat-ai[nim]` or `uv pip install pipecat-ai[riva]`
-
 ### Fixed
 
 - Fixed an issue in `AWSBedrockLLMService` where the `aws_region` arg was
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 14570a60d..3483f2a2a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ moondream = [ "accelerate~=1.10.0", "einops~=0.8.0", "pyvips[binary]~=3.0.0", "t
 neuphonic = [ "pipecat-ai[websockets-base]" ]
 nim = []
 noisereduce = [ "noisereduce~=3.0.3" ]
+nvidia = [ "nvidia-riva-client~=2.21.1" ]
 openai = [ "pipecat-ai[websockets-base]" ]
 openpipe = [ "openpipe>=4.50.0,<6" ]
 openrouter = []
@@ -94,7 +95,6 @@ qwen = []
 remote-smart-turn = []
 rime = [ "pipecat-ai[websockets-base]" ]
 riva = [ "nvidia-riva-client~=2.21.1" ]
-nvidia = [ "nvidia-riva-client~=2.21.1" ]
 runner = [ "python-dotenv>=1.0.0,<2.0.0", "uvicorn>=0.32.0,<1.0.0", "fastapi>=0.115.6,<0.122.0", "pipecat-ai-small-webrtc-prebuilt>=1.0.0"]
 sagemaker = ["aws_sdk_sagemaker_runtime_http2; python_version>='3.12'"]
 sambanova = []
diff --git a/scripts/evals/run-release-evals.py b/scripts/evals/run-release-evals.py
index 4f8268d78..f45128133 100644
--- a/scripts/evals/run-release-evals.py
+++ b/scripts/evals/run-release-evals.py
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ TESTS_07 = [
     ("07o-interruptible-assemblyai.py", EVAL_SIMPLE_MATH),
     ("07q-interruptible-rime.py", EVAL_SIMPLE_MATH),
     ("07q-interruptible-rime-http.py", EVAL_SIMPLE_MATH),
-    ("07r-interruptible-riva-nim.py", EVAL_SIMPLE_MATH),
+    ("07r-interruptible-nvidia.py", EVAL_SIMPLE_MATH),
     ("07s-interruptible-google-audio-in.py", EVAL_SIMPLE_MATH),
     ("07t-interruptible-fish.py", EVAL_SIMPLE_MATH),
     ("07v-interruptible-neuphonic.py", EVAL_SIMPLE_MATH),
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ TESTS_14 = [
     ("14g-function-calling-grok.py", EVAL_WEATHER),
     ("14h-function-calling-azure.py", EVAL_WEATHER),
     ("14i-function-calling-fireworks.py", EVAL_WEATHER),
-    ("14j-function-calling-nim.py", EVAL_WEATHER),
+    ("14j-function-calling-nvidia.py", EVAL_WEATHER),
     ("14k-function-calling-cerebras.py", EVAL_WEATHER),
     ("14m-function-calling-openrouter.py", EVAL_WEATHER),
     ("14n-function-calling-perplexity.py", EVAL_WEATHER),
diff --git a/src/pipecat/services/nvidia/__init__.py b/src/pipecat/services/nvidia/__init__.py
index 8d7f00bb4..e69de29bb 100644
--- a/src/pipecat/services/nvidia/__init__.py
+++ b/src/pipecat/services/nvidia/__init__.py
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-#
-# Copyright (c) 2024–2025, Daily
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD 2-Clause License
-#
-
-import sys
-
-from pipecat.services import DeprecatedModuleProxy
-
-from .llm import *
-from .stt import *
-from .tts import *
-
-sys.modules[__name__] = DeprecatedModuleProxy(globals(), "riva.[stt,tts]", "nvidia.[stt,tts]")
-sys.modules[__name__] = DeprecatedModuleProxy(globals(), "nim.llm", "nvidia.llm")