Copilot & PowerBI

Hi  ArchStanton  ,
Thanks for reaching out to the Microsoft Fabric Community forum. 

Copilot in Power BI, it can certainly help report authors and business users interact with semantic models more efficiently by generating report pages, creating visualizations, summarizing insights, answering natural language questions, and helping users explore data without needing deep DAX or Power BI expertise. Copilot can also assist with understanding and working with semantic models, making it easier to discover data and build reports.

However, it's important to distinguish this from the type of model analysis you've seen demonstrated with Claude. Copilot's primary focus today is on data exploration, report creation, insight generation, and semantic model interaction, rather than performing a deep architectural review of a Power BI model to identify inefficiencies, optimization opportunities, or modeling issues in the same way a specialized AI-assisted model review might.

For your Dynamics 365 scenario, the most immediate benefits of Copilot would likely be:

• Helping users ask natural language questions about the data.
• Accelerating report and visualization creation.
• Generating summaries and insights from reports.
• Assisting analysts in understanding and exploring complex semantic models.

So, while Copilot may not currently replace a dedicated model-review exercise focused on identifying inefficiencies in a large, heavily customized Dynamics 365 model, it can provide significant value in report authoring, data exploration, and self-service analytics while operating within Microsoft's security and governance framework.

Reference: Copilot for Power BI overview - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

I hope this information helps. Please do let us know if you have any further queries.
Thank you