diff --git a/guidance/models/_qianfan.py b/guidance/models/_qianfan.py
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+import copy
+
+import typing
+
+from ._grammarless import Grammarless, GrammarlessEngine
+
+
+try:
+    import qianfan  # type: ignore
+
+    client_class: typing.Optional[typing.Type[qianfan.ChatCompletion]] = qianfan.ChatCompletion
+except ImportError:
+    client_class = None
+
+
+class ClassUnavailableException(Exception):
+    pass
+
+
+class QianfanAI(Grammarless):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        model=None,
+        echo=True,
+        max_streaming_tokens=None,
+        timeout=0.5,
+        compute_log_probs=False,
+        is_chat_model=True,
+        **kwargs,
+    ):
+        """Build a new QianfanAI model object that represents a model in a given state."""
+
+        if client_class is None:
+            raise ClassUnavailableException("Please execute `pip install qianfan` before using QianfanAI component")
+
+        super().__init__(
+            engine=QianfanAIEngine(
+                model=model,
+                max_streaming_tokens=max_streaming_tokens,
+                timeout=timeout,
+                compute_log_probs=compute_log_probs,
+                is_chat_model=is_chat_model,
+                **kwargs,
+            ),
+            echo=echo,
+        )
+
+
+class QianfanAIEngine(GrammarlessEngine):
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        model,
+        max_streaming_tokens,
+        timeout,
+        compute_log_probs,
+        is_chat_model=True,
+        **kwargs,
+    ):
+        if client_class is None:
+            raise ClassUnavailableException("Please execute `pip install qianfan` before using QianfanAI component")
+
+        assert (
+            not compute_log_probs
+        ), "We don't support compute_log_probs=True yet for QianfanAIEngine!"
+
+        self.model_name = model
+
+        self.is_chat_model = is_chat_model
+        self.model_obj = qianfan.ChatCompletion(model=model, **kwargs) if self.is_chat_model else qianfan.Completion(model=model, **kwargs)
+
+        self.extra_arguments = copy.deepcopy(kwargs)
+        self.extra_arguments.pop("endpoint") if "endpoint" in kwargs else None
+
+        super().__init__(None, max_streaming_tokens, timeout, compute_log_probs)
+
+    def _generator(self, prompt, temperature):
+        if self.is_chat_model:
+            return self._chat_generator(prompt, temperature)
+
+        return self._completion_generator(prompt, temperature)
+
+    def _chat_generator(self, prompt, temperature):
+
+        # find the system text
+        pos = 0
+
+        system_start = b"<|im_start|>system\n"
+        user_start = b"<|im_start|>user\n"
+        assistant_start = b"<|im_start|>assistant\n"
+        role_end = b"<|im_end|>"
+
+        # find the system text
+        system_text = ""
+        if prompt.startswith(system_start):
+            pos += len(system_start)
+            system_end_pos = prompt.find(role_end)
+            system_text = prompt[pos:system_end_pos].decode("utf8")
+            pos = system_end_pos + len(role_end)
+
+        # find the user/assistant pairs
+        messages = []
+        valid_end = False
+        while True:
+
+            # find the user text
+            if prompt[pos:].startswith(user_start):
+                pos += len(user_start)
+                end_pos = prompt[pos:].find(role_end)
+                if end_pos < 0:
+                    break
+                messages.append(
+                    dict(
+                        role="user",
+                        content=prompt[pos: pos + end_pos].decode("utf8"),
+                    )
+                )
+                pos += end_pos + len(role_end)
+            elif prompt[pos:].startswith(assistant_start):
+                pos += len(assistant_start)
+                end_pos = prompt[pos:].find(role_end)
+                if end_pos < 0:
+                    valid_end = True
+                    break
+                messages.append(
+                    dict(
+                        role="assistant",
+                        content=prompt[pos: pos + end_pos].decode("utf8"),
+                    )
+                )
+                pos += end_pos + len(role_end)
+            else:
+                raise Exception(
+                    "It looks like your prompt is not a well formed chat prompt! Please enclose all model state appends inside chat role blocks like `user()` or `assistant()`."
+                )
+
+        self._data = prompt[:pos]
+
+        assert len(messages) > 0, "Bad chat format! No chat blocks were defined."
+        assert (
+                messages[-1]["role"] == "user"
+        ), "Bad chat format! There must be a user() role before the last assistant() role."
+        assert valid_end, "Bad chat format! You must generate inside assistant() roles."
+
+        if temperature == 0.0:
+            temperature = 0.0001
+
+        input_kwargs = {"temperature": temperature}
+        input_kwargs.update(self.extra_arguments)
+
+        if system_text:
+            input_kwargs["system"] = system_text
+
+        input_kwargs["stream"] = True
+
+        result_iter = self.model_obj.do(messages, **input_kwargs)
+        for response in result_iter:
+            yield response.body["result"].encode("utf8")
+
+    def _completion_generator(self, prompt, temperature):
+        if temperature == 0.0:
+            temperature = 0.0001
+
+        input_kwargs = {"temperature": temperature}
+        input_kwargs.update(self.extra_arguments)
+        input_kwargs["stream"] = True
+
+        self._data = prompt
+
+        result_iter = self.model_obj.do(prompt.decode("utf8"), **input_kwargs)
+        for response in result_iter:
+            yield response.body["result"].encode("utf8")