Clarify visibility of "new" models. (#261)

I struggled a long time with this, thinking something was wrong with my install.
I think this would be helpful to have mentioned here.

Source: https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat/discussions/1682#discussioncomment-8310689
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@@ -6,13 +6,16 @@ To get your OpenAI API key, you need to:
- Create an account or log in with your existing one
- Add a payment method to your account
- Go to https://platform.openai.com/api-keys to get a key.
- You will need to set the following environment variable to your key or you can set it to `user_provided` for users to provide their own.
- You will need to set the following environment variable to your key, or you can set it to `user_provided` for users to provide their own.
```bash filename=".env"
OPENAI_API_KEY=user_provided
```
- You can determine which models you would like to have available with `OPENAI_MODELS`; otherwise, the models list fetched from OpenAI will be used
- You can determine which models you would like to have available with `OPENAI_MODELS`
- When `OPENAI_API_KEY` is set to `user_provided` → only the models put in this list will be available
- ⚠New models won't automatically show up; you'll need to add them to this list first
- When `OPENAI_API_KEY` is set to the actual API key value → as long as `OPENAI_MODELS` is left commented-out, it will do an API call to find out what models are available, which should include any new ones
```bash filename=".env"
OPENAI_MODELS=gpt-3.5-turbo-0125,gpt-3.5-turbo-0301,gpt-3.5-turbo,gpt-4,gpt-4-0613,gpt-4-vision-preview,gpt-3.5-turbo-0613,gpt-3.5-turbo-16k-0613,gpt-4-0125-preview,gpt-4-turbo-preview,gpt-4-1106-preview,gpt-3.5-turbo-1106,gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct,gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct-0914,gpt-3.5-turbo-16k
@@ -21,4 +24,4 @@ OPENAI_MODELS=gpt-3.5-turbo-0125,gpt-3.5-turbo-0301,gpt-3.5-turbo,gpt-4,gpt-4-06
**Notes:**
- Selecting a vision model for messages with attachments is not necessary as it will be switched behind the scenes for you. If you didn't outright select a vision model, it will only be used for the vision request and you should still see the non-vision model you had selected after the request is successful
- OpenAI Vision models allow for messages without attachments
- OpenAI Vision models allow for messages without attachments