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 ## How to get started?
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+**UPDATE 24 OCTOBER 2024:** 
+- SurfSense now uses custom gpt-researcher agent to format responses.
+- Added better markdown rendering to UI.
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 **UPDATE 8 OCTOBER 2024:** 
 - SurfSense now lets you upload your own files such as pdfs, docx, images etc into your SurfSense Knowledge Base.
 - SurfSense uses [Unstructured-IO](https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured) to support files.
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 |ENV VARIABLE|Description  |
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-| IS_LOCAL_SETUP | 'true' for Ollama mistral-nemo or 'false' from OpenAI gpt-4o-mini|
 | UNSTRUCTURED_API_KEY | Your Unstructured IO API Key. Use any value if running a local instance or file upload support isn't needed.|
 | POSTGRES_DATABASE_URL | postgresql+psycopg2://user:pass@host:5432/database|
 | API_SECRET_KEY | Can be any Random String value. Make Sure to remember it for as you need to send it in user registration request to Backend for security purposes.|