# Get your free API key: https://dashboard.cohere.com/api-keys
co = cohere.ClientV2(api_key="COHERE_API_KEY")
```

## Basic text generation

To get started with Chat, we need to pass two parameters, `model` for the LLM model ID and `messages`, which we add a single user message. We then call the Chat endpoint through the client we created earlier.

The response contains several objects. For simplicity, what we want right now is the `message.content[0].text` object.

Here's an example of the assistant responding to a new hire's query asking for help to make introductions.

```python PYTHON