diff --git a/notebooks/hello-npu/hello-npu.ipynb b/notebooks/hello-npu/hello-npu.ipynb
index cc858687c89..db4640b7791 100644
--- a/notebooks/hello-npu/hello-npu.ipynb
+++ b/notebooks/hello-npu/hello-npu.ipynb
@@ -336,6 +336,7 @@
     "if not model_path.exists():\n",
     "    hf_hub.snapshot_download(\"katuni4ka/resnet50_fp16\", local_dir=model_path.parent)\n",
     "    print(\"IR model saved to {}\".format(model_path))\n",
+    "    model = core.read_model(model_path)\n",
     "else:\n",
     "    print(\"Read IR model from {}\".format(model_path))\n",
     "    model = core.read_model(model_path)"