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---
title: Configuring embedding backends
excerpt: Connecting MemGPT to various endpoint backends
category: 6580d34ee5e4d00068bf2a1d
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MemGPT uses embedding models for retrieval search over archival memory. You can use embeddings provided by OpenAI, Azure, or any model on Hugging Face.
## OpenAI
To use OpenAI, make sure your `OPENAI_API_KEY` enviornment variable is set.
```sh
export OPENAI_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY # on Linux/Mac
```
Then, configure MemGPT and select `openai` as the embedding provider:
```
> memgpt configure
...
? Select embedding provider: openai
...
```
## Azure
To use Azure, set enviornment variables for Azure and an additional variable specifying your embedding deployment:
```sh
# see https://github.com/openai/openai-python#microsoft-azure-endpoints
export AZURE_OPENAI_KEY = ...
export AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT = ...
export AZURE_OPENAI_VERSION = ...
# set the below if you are using deployment ids
export AZURE_OPENAI_EMBEDDINGS_DEPLOYMENT = ...
```
Then, configure MemGPT and select `azure` as the embedding provider:
```
> memgpt configure
...
? Select embedding provider: azure
...
```
## Custom Endpoint
MemGPT supports running embeddings with any Hugging Face model using the [Text Embeddings Inference](https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference)(TEI) library. To get started, first make sure you follow TEI's [instructions](https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference#get-started) for getting started. Once you have a running endpoint, you can configure MemGPT to use your endpoint:
```
> memgpt configure
...
? Select embedding provider: hugging-face
? Enter default endpoint: http://localhost:8080
? Enter HuggingFace model tag (e.g. BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5): BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5
? Enter embedding model dimentions (e.g. 1024): 1536
...
```
## Local Embeddings
MemGPT can compute embeddings locally using a lightweight embedding model [`BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5`](https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5).
> 🚧 Local LLM Performance
>
> The `BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5` was chosen to be lightweight, so you may notice degraded performance with embedding-based retrieval when using this option.
To compute embeddings locally, install dependencies with:
```
pip install `pymemgpt[local]`
```
Then, select the `local` option during configuration:
```
> memgpt configure
...
? Select embedding provider: local
...
```