diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7befd69f..31fb0796 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 setup(
   name = 'swarms',
   packages = find_packages(exclude=[]),
-  version = '0.7.8',
+  version = '0.7.9',
   license='MIT',
   description = 'Swarms - Pytorch',
   author = 'Kye Gomez',
diff --git a/swarms/swarms.py b/swarms/swarms.py
index 1f0873b6..3f4cf1d7 100644
--- a/swarms/swarms.py
+++ b/swarms/swarms.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ class Swarms:
 
     def initialize_vectorstore(self):
         # Initialize vector store
-        embeddings_model = OpenAIEmbeddings()
+        embeddings_model = OpenAIEmbeddings(openai_api_key=self.openai_api_key)
         embedding_size = 1536
         index = faiss.IndexFlatL2(embedding_size)
         return FAISS(embeddings_model.embed_query, index, InMemoryDocstore({}), {})