Power BI Copilot

Power BI Copilot is an AI assistant built into Microsoft Power BI that helps you create and work with business intelligence content using natural language. It’s aimed at data professionals, analysts, and business users who already use Power BI and want to speed up report creation, exploration, and DAX development.

Within the Power BI experience, Copilot lets you describe the report you want or ask questions about your data, and it generates visuals, layouts, and calculations for you. It also works across Microsoft Fabric workloads and OneLake, so you can tap into curated datasets and semantic models as your source of truth. The interface is embedded directly in Power BI (web and Fabric-based experience), and it ties into the broader Microsoft 365 ecosystem through the standard Power BI integrations.

According to the site, Copilot can create reports in seconds from a prompt, generate and explain DAX queries, and add narrative text summaries that you can customize for tone, scope, and style. This makes it useful for quickly prototyping dashboards, helping less-technical users explore data, and assisting more advanced users with repetitive DAX or explanation tasks. It sits inside Power BI rather than acting as a standalone agent, so it’s best thought of as an intelligent assistant for BI work, not an end-to-end automation platform.

The page doesn’t specify which underlying AI models are used or how data is handled for training and privacy, beyond the general references to Microsoft’s governance, security, and compliance posture. There’s no indication that Copilot can autonomously run business workflows or trigger actions in external systems; its scope is generating and refining BI artifacts (reports, queries, summaries) within Power BI. Pricing and licensing specifics for Copilot itself aren’t detailed here, so you’ll likely need to consult Microsoft’s documentation or sales if you’re planning a large deployment or need to understand tenant-level requirements. If you’re not already invested in Power BI or Microsoft Fabric, this tool will be less relevant, as it’s tightly coupled to that ecosystem.