Power BI February 2025 Feature Summary

Welcome to the February 2025 update!
Welcome to our latest blog post, where we are thrilled to introduce some game-changing features for Power BI that will significantly enhance your data analysis experience. First up is the improved modeling performance for live editing of semantic models in Direct Lake mode within Power BI Desktop. This results in at least a 50% improvement in each modeling change.
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