Since September 2024: Experiments have been started on how we can work on long texts with AI Studio. Let's say you want to write a fantasy novel or create a complex project proposal and use LLM for support. The initial experiments were promising, but not yet satisfactory. We are testing further approaches until a satisfactory solution is found. The current state of our experiment is available as an experimental preview feature through your app configuration. Related PR: ~~PR #167, PR #226~~, PR #376.

Since March 2025: We have started developing the plugin system. There will be language plugins to offer AI Studio in other languages, configuration plugins to centrally manage certain providers and rules within an organization, and assistant plugins that allow anyone to develop their own assistants. We are using Lua as the plugin language:

• [x] ~~Plan & implement the base plugin system (PR #322)~~
• [x] ~~Start the plugin system (PR #372)~~
• [x] ~~Added hot-reload support for plugins (PR #377, PR #391)~~
• [x] ~~Add support for other languages (I18N) to AI Studio (PR #381, PR #400, PR #404, PR #429, PR #446, PR #451, PR #455, PR #458, PR #462, PR #469, PR #486)~~
• [x] ~~Add an I18N assistant to translate all AI Studio texts to a certain language & culture (PR #422)~~
• [x] ~~Provide MindWork AI Studio in German (PR #430, PR #446, PR #451, PR #455, PR #458, PR #462, PR #469, PR #486)~~
• [x] ~~Add configuration plugins, which allow pre-defining some LLM providers in organizations (PR #491, PR #493, PR #494, PR #497)~~
• [ ] Add an app store for plugins, showcasing community-contributed plugins from public GitHub and GitLab repositories. This will enable AI Studio users to discover, install, and update plugins directly within the platform.
• [x] ~~Add assistant plugins (PR #659)~~

• v26.4.1: Added support for the latest AI models, assistant plugins, a slide planner assistant, a prompt optimization assistant, math rendering in chats, and a configurable start page; released the document analysis assistant and improved enterprise deployment, chat performance, file attachments, and reliability across voice recording, logging, and provider validation.
• v26.2.2: Added Qdrant as a building block for our local RAG preview, added an embedding test option to validate embedding providers, and improved enterprise and configuration plugins with preselected providers, additive preview features, support for multiple configurations, and more reliable synchronization.
• v26.1.1: Added the option to attach files, including images, to chat templates; added support for source code file attachments in chats and document analysis; added a preview feature for recording your own voice for transcription; fixed various bugs in provider dialogs and profile selection.
• v0.10.0: Added support for newer models like Mistral 3 & GPT 5.2, OpenRouter as LLM and embedding provider, the possibility to use file attachments in chats, and support for images as input.
• v0.9.51: Added support for Perplexity; citations added so that LLMs can provide source references (e.g., some OpenAI models, Perplexity); added support for OpenAI's Responses API so that all text LLMs from OpenAI now work in MindWork AI Studio, including Deep Research models; web searches are now possible (some OpenAI models, Perplexity).
• v0.9.50: Added support for self-hosted LLMs using vLLM.
• v0.9.46: Released our plugin system, a German language plugin, early support for enterprise environments, and configuration plugins. Additionally, we added the Pandoc integration for future data processing and file generation.
• v0.9.45: Added chat templates to AI Studio, allowing you to create and use a library of system prompts for your chats.
• v0.9.44: Added PDF import to the text summarizer, translation, and legal check assistants, allowing you to import PDF files and use them as input for the assistants.
• v0.9.40: Added support for the o4 models from OpenAI. Also, we added Alibaba Cloud & Hugging Face as LLM providers.
• v0.9.39: Added the plugin system as a preview feature.
• v0.9.31: Added Helmholtz & GWDG as LLM providers. This is a huge improvement for many researchers out there who can use these providers for free. We added DeepSeek as a provider as well.

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