diff --git a/src/models/groq.js b/src/models/groq.js
index da0da6a..2aa34b7 100644
--- a/src/models/groq.js
+++ b/src/models/groq.js
@@ -2,32 +2,68 @@ const Groq = require('groq-sdk');
 import { getKey } from '../utils/keys.js';
 
 export class Mixtral {
-  constructor(model_name, url) {
-    this.model_name = model_name;
-    this.url = url;
-    this.groq = new Groq(getKey('GROQ_API_KEY'));
-  }
+    constructor(model_name, url) {
+        this.model_name = model_name;
+        this.url = url;
+        this.groq = new Groq(getKey('GROQ_API_KEY'));
+    }
+
+    async sendRequest(turns, systemMessage, stop_seq="***") {
+        let messages = [{"role": "system", "content": systemMessage}].concat(turns);
+        let res = null;
+        try {
+            console.log("Awaiting Groq response...");
+            let completion = await this.groq.chat.completions.create({
+                "messages": messages,
+                "model": this.model_name || "mixtral-8x7b-32768",
+                "temperature": 0.85,
+                "max_tokens": 8192,
+                "top_p": 1,
+                "stream": true,
+                "stop": stop_seq
+            });
+
+            let temp_res = "";
+            for await (const chunk of completion) {
+                temp_res += chunk.choices[0]?.delta?.content || '';
+            }
+
+            res = temp_res;
+
+        }
+        catch(err) {
+            console.log(err);
+            res = "My brain just kinda stopped working. Try again.";
+        }
+        return res;
+    }
+
+    async embed(text) {
+      /* GPT's embed:
+              const embedding = await this.openai.embeddings.create({
+            model: this.model_name || "text-embedding-ada-002",
+            input: text,
+            encoding_format: "float",
+        });
+        return embedding.data[0].embedding;
+      */
+
+      // lol no embeddings for u
+      // l
+      console.log("big oof, embeds on groq dont is not thing");
+      
+    }
 }
 
-const groq = new Groq();
 async function definitelynotmain() {
   const chatCompletion = await groq.chat.completions.create({
-    "messages": [
-      {
-        "role": "system",
-        "content": "i like grapes"
-      },
-      {
-        "role": "user",
-        "content": ""
-      }
-    ],
+    "messages": "",
     "model": "mixtral-8x7b-32768",
     "temperature": 0.85,
     "max_tokens": 8192,
     "top_p": 1,
     "stream": true,
-    "stop": null
+    "stop": "***"
   });
 
   for await (const chunk of chatCompletion) {