Microsoft adds AI columns that fill in text for your business records
Microsoft has added prompt columns to Dataverse tables. Users write a plain English instruction that pulls data from other columns and generates new text or values. The generated content saves straight into the table and refreshes whenever the record changes. Each table can hold up to five of these columns. The feature needs AI Builder licensing plus Copilot turned on. It is rolling out gradually and is not yet available everywhere.
Until now, anyone who wanted AI summaries or classifications inside an app had to trigger a live call to an AI service every time a screen loaded or a button was pressed. Those calls added delays and burned through usage quotas during normal daily work. The new columns move the work to the background so the answer already sits in the record when someone opens the app. Teams already committed to Dataverse gain a cleaner path, yet the majority of citizen developers still run on SharePoint lists and will continue facing the same formula and performance problems they had yesterday.
Analysis
Treat the announcement as noise that pulls attention toward a paid platform most teams have not adopted. Stay on your SharePoint lists and open the Copilot button in the formula bar right now to let it rewrite your next Filter or Patch statement instead of hunting for new column types.
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