> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://arivu.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Openai SDK

> Initialize the Arivu pipeline using Openai as the routing engine.

## Integration

You can assign Openai as your generation engine either by passing kwargs into the connection object or through environment variables.

<CodeGroup>
  ```python python theme={null}
  import os
  from arivu import Arivu

  os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = "..."

  db = Arivu.connect(
      # DB arguments...
      llm_provider="openai",
      model="gpt-4o"
  )
  ```
</CodeGroup>

<Note>
  Ensure your `arivu-ai[llm]` optional dependencies are installed via `pip install arivu-ai[openai]` if necessary.
</Note>