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 ## Installation & Setup   
 Install MemGPT:
 ```sh
-pip install pymemgpt
+pip install -U pymemgpt
 ```
 To use MemGPT with OpenAI, set the environment variable `OPENAI_API_KEY` to your OpenAI key then run: 
 ```