diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
index 7a4a27b..a964062 100644
--- a/.env.example
+++ b/.env.example
@@ -1,37 +1,22 @@
 
-# DEFAULT MODEL_CONFIGURATIONS
-DEFAULT_MODEL="openai/gpt-4o-mini"
-SUMMARIZATION_MODEL="openai/gpt-4o-mini"
 
 # OPENAI
-# USE MODEL NAMES AS "openai/<modelname>"
-# EXAMPLE - openai/gpt-4o-mini
 OPENAI_API_KEY=
 
 # ANTHROPIC
-# USE MODEL NAMES AS "anthropic/<modelname>"
-# EXAMPLE - anthropic/claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620
 # ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=
 
 # GEMINI
-# USE MODEL NAMES AS "gemini/<modelname>"
-# EXAMPLE - gemini/gemini-1.5-pro-002
 # GEMINI_API_KEY=
 
 # VERTEXAI
-# USE MODEL NAMES AS "vertexai/<modelname>"
-# EXAMPLE - vertexai/gemini-1.5-pro-002
 # VERTEX_PROJECT=my-google-cloud-project-name
 # GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=./google-credentials.json
 
 # OLLAMA
-# USE MODEL NAMES AS "ollama/<modelname>"
-# EXAMPLE - ollama/gemma2
 # OLLAMA_API_BASE="http://10.20.30.20:11434"
 
 # OPEN ROUTER
-# USE MODEL NAMES AS "openrouter/<modelname>"
-# EXAMPLE - openrouter/nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-70b-instruct
 # OPENROUTER_BASE_URL="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
 # OPENROUTER_API_KEY=
 
diff --git a/docs/SETUP.md b/docs/SETUP.md
index c459caa..52753da 100644
--- a/docs/SETUP.md
+++ b/docs/SETUP.md
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ services:
       - "8080:8502"
     environment:
         - OPENAI_API_KEY=API_KEY
-        - DEFAULT_MODEL=gpt-4o-mini
         - SURREAL_ADDRESSsurrealdb
         - SURREAL_PORT=8000
         - SURREAL_USER=root