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 ### Running the UI
 
-Try cognee UI by running ``` cognee-cli -ui ``` command on your terminal.
+Try cognee UI by setting LLM_API_KEY and running ``` cognee-cli -ui ``` command on your terminal.
 
 ## Understand our architecture