Metabase 61: AI fun police, build questions and dashboards with MCP, and much more!
Metabase has released version 61, introducing enhanced AI governance features for organizations. Users can now manage access controls for AI tools, set token limits, and customize the AI assistant, Metabot. Additionally, the update includes improved analytics and the ability to create dashboards through natural language queries.
- ▪Version 61 of Metabase includes AI governance controls for organizations.
- ▪Users can set token limits and manage access to AI features for different user groups.
- ▪Metabot can be customized for specific organizational needs and can assist in creating dashboards through conversation.
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| Original publisher | DEV.to (Top) |
| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/metabase/metabase-61-ai-fun-police-build-questions-and-dashboards-with-mcp-and-much-more-4850 |
| Publication time | Wed, 20 May 2026 14:53:59 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-20T15:05:02.641Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-20T15:05:02.641Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | _pDdvjydn-e_ |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 51517) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Ramiro for Metabase Posted on May 20 • Originally published at metabase.com Metabase 61: AI fun police, build questions and dashboards with MCP, and much more! #metabase #opensource #analytics #programming In v60 we put AI features in 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.
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