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 - Visit [openai](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936850-where-do-i-find-my-secret-api-key) to retrieve API keys and insert into your `.env` file.
-- Visit [pinecone](https://pinecone.io/) to create and retrieve your API keys, and also retrieve your environment and index name from the dashboard.
+- Visit [pinecone](https://pinecone.io/) create an index (same as PINECONE_INDEX_NAME in the .env file), set the dimension to 1536, you will then be able to retrieve the environment once the index is created. 
 
 4. In the `config` folder, replace the `PINECONE_NAME_SPACE` with a `namespace` where you'd like to store your embeddings on Pinecone when you run `npm run ingest`. This namespace will later be used for queries and retrieval.