LibreOffice Conference 2026: Building a free AI assistant extension for LibreOffice Writer

LibreThinker is a free AI assistant extension for LibreOffice Writer, with over 19,000 downloads in 9 months. It started as a Python project wrapping GPT's API and grew into a multi-backend tool that supports free hosted models, connecting your own AI provider, and running models locally on your own machine. This talk covers how it was built, the engineering problems that came with running a free public endpoint, and what users actually ask for. Presenter: Mihail Marian For more information, please see: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2026/talk/ZNAYLW/ LibreOffice is a free, private and open source office suite. It has no forced or built-in AI, and is backed by a non-profit foundation.