New in Metabase 61 - AI fun police, build dashboards and questions with MCP
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In v60, we added AI features to all plans, including Open Source. With v61, we give you the controls for AI governance that make it yours to deploy safely.
Some call it the Fun Police. We prefer: AI that’s realistic for orgs of all types to roll out, including those who need tighter oversight over who gets to use it (bit of a mouthful though).
Another big one is that our MCP server now supports question and dashboard creation!
Check out the full thing: https://www.metabase.com/releases/metabase-61
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This is the right direction for BI AI. The hard part with dashboards isn’t just “can it generate a chart?” — it’s whether the org can trust why that chart exists and who is allowed to operationalize it.
One governance pattern I’d love to see: every AI-created question/dashboard carries a small provenance note: source tables used, assumptions inferred, permissions checked, and whether a human has reviewed it. That would make MCP-created analytics feel less like magic and more like auditable work product.
Congrats on the launch. I’m studying product onboarding from a UX angle. What early-user feedback has been most useful so far: setup friction, adoption, or where people get confused?