AI can now build reports, write DAX, and query your data, and it's not just Copilot anymore. Here's what that actually means for your organisation, and the people running your analytics.
Madhu Pandit · Founder, Luminova Analytics · Microsoft Certified Power BI Consultant
Something significant is happening in the world of business intelligence, and it is moving faster than most organisations have noticed.
Copilot is now embedded inside Power BI, letting users ask questions in plain English and generate reports without writing a single formula. But that is only part of the story, and not even the most important part.
AI in Power BI now extends well beyond Microsoft's own tooling. Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI tools can connect directly to Power BI semantic models via Microsoft's new MCP (Model Context Protocol) framework. These tools are not generating generic suggestions in a chatbox, they are reading your actual tables, understanding the relationships between them, writing DAX measures that know your specific schema, generating documentation for measures that have never been documented, and auditing naming conventions across hundreds of columns in a single pass. All through a conversation.
