AI in Tableau Features
Explore the power of generative AI with the following Tableau features. AI in Tableau features support English (en_US). Starting in version 2025.1 (February release) a subset of additional languages are supported for AI in Tableau. For more information, see AI in Tableau supported languages and locales.
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Note: By default, AI in Tableau features are turned off. To use any of these features, ask your administrator to turn on the AI in Tableau site setting for your Tableau Cloud or Tableau Server site. For more information, see Turn On AI in Your Tableau Cloud Site(Link opens in a new window) in the Tableau Cloud help or Turn On AI in Your Tableau Server Site(Link opens in a new window) in the Tableau Server help.
| Product | Feature | Version Available | What It Does |
| Tableau Cloud | Pulse insight summaries(Link opens in a new window) | 2024.1 and later | Summarises the most important metric insights to formulate a concise natural language overview. |
| Tableau Cloud | Better semantic matches in Ask Q&A | 2025.1 and later | Supports better semantic matching in any language for Ask Q&A. |
| Tableau Cloud | Tableau Agent in Pulse | 2025.1 and later | Looks across grouped metrics and surfaces key insights, relevant visualisations, source references and suggested follow-up questions. |
| Tableau Cloud | Tableau Agent in Viz Authoring(Link opens in a new window) | 2024.2 (August) and later | Acts as an AI assistant to help you explore your data, create visualisations, build and explain calculated fields, and uncover insights. |
| Tableau Server | Tableau Agent in Viz Authoring(Link opens in a new window) | 2025.3 and later | Acts as an AI assistant to help you explore your data, create visualisations, build and explain calculated fields, and uncover insights. |
| Tableau Desktop | Tableau Agent in Viz Authoring(Link opens in a new window) | 2025.1 and later | Acts as an AI assistant to help you explore your data, create visualisations, build and explain calculated fields, and uncover insights. Requires a connection to a Tableau Cloud site with Tableau Cloud+ or Tableau+ and AI in Tableau turned on or a connection to a Tableau Server site with AI in Tableau turned on. |
| Tableau Cloud, Tableau Prep Builder | Tableau Agent in Tableau Prep(Link opens in a new window) | 2025.2 and later | Acts as an AI assistant to help you build your flow to clean and transform your data and build calculated fields for your flows using syntax supported by Tableau Prep. |
| Tableau Server | Tableau Agent in Tableau Prep(Link opens in a new window) | 2025.3 and later | Acts as an AI assistant to help you build your flow to clean and transform your data and build calculated fields for your flows using syntax supported by Tableau Prep. |
| Tableau Cloud, Tableau Server | Tableau Agent in Dashboards (Beta)(Link opens in a new window) | Dashboard Narratives & Dashboard Q&A (2026.2.4 and later) Dashboard Narratives & Dashboard Q&A (Tableau Server version 2026. 3 and later. Requires Tableau Server+) | Analyses dashboards to create a summary overview about the dashboard, creates a summary of insights based on the charts in the dashboard or enables you to ask questions about your data using natural language. Note: This is a Beta feature available in Tableau Cloud, Tableau Cloud Trial sites and Tableau Server. Administrators must opt in to make this feature available to their users. AI Access and Full Data Query permissions are also required. |
| Tableau Desktop | Tableau Agent in Dashboards (Beta)(Link opens in a new window) | Tableau Agent in Dashboards configuration settings | When connected to Tableau Cloud (Tableau Cloud+, Tableau +, Tableau Cloud trial), Dashboard authors can configure the settings to allow dashboard users to access the Dashboard Overview, Dashboard Insights and Dashboard Q&A capabilities. For more information, see Build Views and Explore Data with Tableau Agent(Link opens in a new window). |
| Tableau Cloud | Tableau Agent in Tableau Catalog(Link opens in a new window) | 2024.2 | Automatically creates descriptions for data sources, workbooks and tables. |