I hate when I find a cool AI project and I open the github to read the setup instructions and see "insert OpenAI API key." Nothing will make me loose interest faster.
Unconstructive comment. OpenAI is the golden standard for an llm: if you cared to dig deeper you’d realize that that you really could incorporate another llm with little effort.
Most projects also give you the option of providing an base url for the API so that people can use Azure's endpoints. You can use that config option with LiteLLM or a similar proxy tool to provide an OpenAI compatible interface for other models, whether that's a competitor like Claude or a local model like Llama or Mistral.
Is the expectation for the lib (or project) to work with various vendors or you expect to just pay for tokens
You can easily incorporate llama 3 or other OS models