diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d4e67053f65..36651b5b021 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 * Filter by source (Slack, Google Drive, etc)
 
 ## Upcoming
-* Permissioning for document access managmeent
-* Options for more secure or self hosting generative LLM
+* Permissioning for document access management
+* Options for more secure or self-hosting generative LLM
 * More connectors and easy way to contribute community connectors
 * Support for other vector DBs (with no particular prioritization: Weaviate, Pinecone, Milvus, Vespa)
diff --git a/backend/danswer/configs/model_configs.py b/backend/danswer/configs/model_configs.py
index d6f05062479..ff5018c5506 100644
--- a/backend/danswer/configs/model_configs.py
+++ b/backend/danswer/configs/model_configs.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ MODEL_CACHE_FOLDER = os.environ.get("TRANSFORMERS_CACHE")
 BATCH_SIZE_ENCODE_CHUNKS = 8
 
 # QA Model API Configs
+# https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/model-endpoint-compatibility
 INTERNAL_MODEL_VERSION = os.environ.get("INTERNAL_MODEL", "openai-completion")
-OPENAPI_MODEL_VERSION = "text-davinci-003"
-OPENAI_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS = 200
+OPENAPI_MODEL_VERSION = os.environ.get("OPENAI_MODEL_VERSION", "text-davinci-003")
+OPENAI_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS = 400
diff --git a/backend/danswer/direct_qa/__init__.py b/backend/danswer/direct_qa/__init__.py
index 0f82721a2d1..ea358d6d8ff 100644
--- a/backend/danswer/direct_qa/__init__.py
+++ b/backend/danswer/direct_qa/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
+from danswer.configs.model_configs import INTERNAL_MODEL_VERSION
 from danswer.direct_qa.interfaces import QAModel
+from danswer.direct_qa.question_answer import OpenAIChatCompletionQA
 from danswer.direct_qa.question_answer import OpenAICompletionQA
 
 
-def get_default_backend_qa_model() -> QAModel:
-    return OpenAICompletionQA()
+def get_default_backend_qa_model(
+    internal_model: str = INTERNAL_MODEL_VERSION,
+) -> QAModel:
+    if internal_model == "openai-completion":
+        return OpenAICompletionQA()
+    elif internal_model == "openai-chat-completion":
+        return OpenAIChatCompletionQA()
+    else:
+        raise ValueError("Wrong internal QA model set.")
diff --git a/backend/danswer/direct_qa/qa_prompts.py b/backend/danswer/direct_qa/qa_prompts.py
index 199f5f2051b..f6a4c13bd3f 100644
--- a/backend/danswer/direct_qa/qa_prompts.py
+++ b/backend/danswer/direct_qa/qa_prompts.py
@@ -21,3 +21,42 @@ def generic_prompt_processor(question: str, documents: list[str]) -> str:
     prompt += f"{QUESTION_PAT}\n{question}\n"
     prompt += f"{ANSWER_PAT}\n"
     return prompt
+
+
+def openai_chat_completion_processor(
+    question: str, documents: list[str]
+) -> list[dict[str, str]]:
+    sample_quote = "Quote:\nThe hotdogs are freshly cooked.\n\nQuote:\nThey are very cheap at only a dollar each."
+    role_msg = (
+        f"You are a Question Answering assistant that answers queries based on provided documents. "
+        f'You will be asked to acknowledge a set of documents and then provide one "{ANSWER_PAT}" and '
+        f'as many "{QUOTE_PAT}" sections as is relevant to back up your answer. '
+        f"Answer the question directly and concisely. "
+        f"Each quote should be a single continuous segment from a document. "
+        f'If the query cannot be answered based on the documents, say "{UNCERTAINTY_PAT}". '
+        f"An example of quote sections may look like:\n{sample_quote}"
+    )
+
+    messages = [
+        {"role": "system", "content": role_msg},
+    ]
+    for document in documents:
+        messages.extend(
+            [
+                {
+                    "role": "user",
+                    "content": f"Acknowledge the following document:\n{document}",
+                },
+                {"role": "assistant", "content": "Acknowledged"},
+            ]
+        )
+
+    messages.append(
+        {
+            "role": "user",
+            "content": f"Please now answer the following query based on the previously provided "
+            f"documents and quote the relevant sections of the documents\n{question}",
+        },
+    )
+
+    return messages
diff --git a/backend/danswer/direct_qa/question_answer.py b/backend/danswer/direct_qa/question_answer.py
index ff05c0858f2..704ae4c1301 100644
--- a/backend/danswer/direct_qa/question_answer.py
+++ b/backend/danswer/direct_qa/question_answer.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ from danswer.configs.model_configs import OPENAPI_MODEL_VERSION
 from danswer.direct_qa.interfaces import QAModel
 from danswer.direct_qa.qa_prompts import ANSWER_PAT
 from danswer.direct_qa.qa_prompts import generic_prompt_processor
+from danswer.direct_qa.qa_prompts import openai_chat_completion_processor
 from danswer.direct_qa.qa_prompts import QUOTE_PAT
 from danswer.direct_qa.qa_prompts import UNCERTAINTY_PAT
 from danswer.utils.logging import setup_logger
@@ -177,3 +178,48 @@ class OpenAICompletionQA(QAModel):
 
         answer, quotes_dict = process_answer(model_output, context_docs)
         return answer, quotes_dict
+
+
+class OpenAIChatCompletionQA(QAModel):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        prompt_processor: Callable[
+            [str, list[str]], list[dict[str, str]]
+        ] = openai_chat_completion_processor,
+        model_version: str = OPENAPI_MODEL_VERSION,
+        max_output_tokens: int = OPENAI_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS,
+    ) -> None:
+        self.prompt_processor = prompt_processor
+        self.model_version = model_version
+        self.max_output_tokens = max_output_tokens
+
+    @log_function_time()
+    def answer_question(
+        self, query: str, context_docs: list[InferenceChunk]
+    ) -> tuple[str | None, dict[str, dict[str, str | int | None]] | None]:
+        top_contents = [ranked_chunk.content for ranked_chunk in context_docs]
+        messages = self.prompt_processor(query, top_contents)
+        logger.debug(messages)
+
+        try:
+            response = openai.ChatCompletion.create(
+                messages=messages,
+                temperature=0,
+                top_p=1,
+                frequency_penalty=0,
+                presence_penalty=0,
+                model=self.model_version,
+                max_tokens=self.max_output_tokens,
+            )
+            model_output = response["choices"][0]["message"]["content"].strip()
+            logger.info(
+                "OpenAI Token Usage: " + str(response["usage"]).replace("\n", "")
+            )
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.exception(e)
+            model_output = "Model Failure"
+
+        logger.debug(model_output)
+
+        answer, quotes_dict = process_answer(model_output, context_docs)
+        return answer, quotes_dict
diff --git a/backend/requirements/default.txt b/backend/requirements/default.txt
index 0f7b1d220d0..b6b1f9425a7 100644
--- a/backend/requirements/default.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements/default.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ filelock==3.12.0
 google-api-python-client==2.86.0
 google-auth-httplib2==0.1.0
 google-auth-oauthlib==1.0.0
-openai==0.27.2
+openai==0.27.6
 playwright==1.32.1
 pydantic==1.10.7
 PyPDF2==3.0.1