In the past two weeks, most BI vendors rolled out significant AI-driven enhancements—ranging from expanded copilots and natural-language capabilities to automated content generation—alongside workflow and visualization improvements. Looker and Pyramid Analytics had no analyst-facing updates in this window.

Looker 
- No qualifying release notes or feature updates between February 21 and March 7, 2026.

Power BI (February 2026 update, Desktop/Service v2.151.1052.0 published 02/20/2026) 
- AI: Expanded Copilot prompt limit from 500 to 10 000 characters across all surfaces (Standalone, report pane, apps, mobile, embed) to accommodate longer, expressive queries powerbi.microsoft.com  
- Reporting: Input Slicer (formerly Text Slicer) reached general availability, letting report viewers type free-form text filters (contains, starts with, etc.) directly in reports ([powerbi.microsoft.com](https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-sg/blog/power-bi-february-2026-feature-summary/))  
- Reporting: Conversational improvements in Power BI apps, enabling users to ask questions without pre-selecting items and receive app-level summaries of available reporting ([powerbi.microsoft.com](https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-sg/blog/power-bi-february-2026-feature-summary/))  
- Modeling: Introduced TABLEOF and NAMEOF DAX functions to create safer, rename-resilient references in measures and UDFs ([powerbi.microsoft.com](https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-sg/blog/power-bi-february-2026-feature-summary/))  
- Other: Fabric Copilot capacity designation setting enabled by default for tenants for unified Copilot usage across Desktop, Pro, and Premium workspaces ([powerbi.microsoft.com](https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-sg/blog/power-bi-february-2026-feature-summary/))  

Tableau (2026.1 release, rolling out Feb 24–Mar 3, 2026)  
- AI & Semantic: Beta of Tableau Next Data Pro’s Auto-Generate Semantic Models from Workspaces via natural-language descriptions ([tableau.com](https://www.tableau.com/new-features))  
- AI & Assisted Insights: Beta of Q&A Calibration for validating and tuning agent responses; Beta of Tableau Next Dashboard Summaries for key-driver text summaries; GA of Tableau Pulse’s Enhanced Q&A with custom queries and correlation insights ([tableau.com](https://www.tableau.com/new-features))  
- Visualization: GA of Rounded Corners for dashboard objects across Desktop, Web, and Public; GA of AI-assisted Color Palettes to generate accessible swatches via text prompts in Desktop on Agent-enabled sites ([tableau.com](https://www.tableau.com/new-features))  
- BI UX: GA of Image Export Improvements for accurate exports of views using Trusted Extensions or Pulse; GA of View Data Model enhancements (hover to highlight source tables); GA of Smart Filter on Table Name in Data pane; GA of Mixed Geometry support in Maps (points/lines/polygons together) ([tableau.com](https://www.tableau.com/new-features))  

Metabase (v59 released Mar 05, 2026)  
- Semantic & Governance: Introduced Data Studio workbench for shaping and curating semantic layers (transforms in SQL/Python, dependency graph, Library for tables and metrics) ([metabase.com](https://www.metabase.com/releases/metabase-59))  
- AI & Code Gen: Metabot add-on for SQL/Python transform code generation; open-source natural-language SQL generation in the SQL editor (prompt-based, Anthropic key required) ([metabase.com](https://www.metabase.com/releases/metabase-59))