Administer AI Builder
Microsoft Power Platform administrators can use the Power Apps admin center and the Power Platform admin center to manage environments and settings for Power Apps and AI Builder.
Learn more in Power Platform administrator guide.
The availability, which is also known as the release status, of AI Builder is dependent on your region. For a breakdown of AI Builder feature availability by region, go to Feature availability by region.
Learn more by downloading the AI Builder governance whitepaper.
AI custom model and environment lifecycle
This section applies to AI Builder custom models. It doesn't apply to prebuilt models.
Lifecycle states of a model
A model can go through different states depending on the makers’ actions. The model states are stored through configurations within the AI Configuration table.
The states are draft, training (transient), trained, publishing (transient), published, unpublishing (transient), training error, importing (transient), and import error.
Application lifecycle management
Makers should be able to continuously update and deploy their models across single or multiple environments.
Managing new versions of a model often requires going through different environments. A typical scenario would be to make model changes in a development environment, qualify the model in a test environment, and predict in a production environment.
In AI Builder, all the environments need to be provided with a Microsoft Dataverse database.
Moving models between environments can be done through the solution concept. Solutions are vehicles to move components between Microsoft Power Platform environments. To learn more, go to Introduction to solutions.
Learn more about on how to distribute an AI model as a solution component in Distribute your AI model.
Environment lifecycle
AI Builder models are fully moved, along with user data, during environment backup/restore and environment copy operations.
After restore and copy operations, document processing and object detection models might be in the importing state for a few minutes while copies are made in the back end.
Backup and restore
Microsoft Dataverse has backup and restore capabilities to help protect your apps' data, providing continuous availability of service. System administrators and delegated admin users can use the standard capabilities described in Back up and restore environments.
Backup and restore are fully supported for prediction, object detection, document processing, and prebuilt models.
Note
For object detection and document processing models, the restore process might take some time to be completed. The AI Builder models list shows an "importing" status message while the restore operation is in progress.
For models not supported by backup and restore: If you restore an environment, you have to retrain and republish these models to make them available again.
Prerequisite to set up an environment ready for AI Builder
AI Builder is licensed as an add-on to your Power Apps, Power Automate, or Dynamics 365 license. This means you need a Power Apps, Power Automate, or Dynamics 365 license that allows you to create a Microsoft Power Platform environment.
Manage AI Builder credits
Access to AI Builder features within an environment requires access to AI Builder credits.
To learn more, go to AI Builder licensing and credit management.
Where and how are data stored in Dataverse?
Your AI model is deployed in the region that hosts the environment. For example, if your environment is created in the Europe region, your model is deployed in datacenters in Europe. Learn more in Environments overview.
Images and documents used for training purposes in object detection and document processing models are persisted in Dataverse.
- They're used solely to train the AI Builder model and never used for any other purpose.
- Training data is never shared externally.
In contrast, images and documents used at prediction time aren't persisted. Examples of non-persisted images and documents are those in a Power Apps component framework (PCF) control and in Power Automate.
Inputs of text scenarios are persisted in the AI Event Dataverse table to allow users to monitor AI Builder activity.
Dataverse has strong security mechanisms that prevent unauthorized access to user data. Data stored to train your AI Builder model is only accessible by the following users:
- The owner of the model.
- Individuals with Power Platform System Administrator and System Customizer roles in your organization.
Learn more in Roles and security in AI Builder.
Enable or disable AI Builder preview features
Some AI Builder features are released for general availability. Others remain in preview release status.
Preview features appear on the Explore page with the Preview label. In the Power Platform admin center, administrators control whether users have access to preview features.
By default, the AI Builder preview models feature is enabled for any eligible environment. Eligible environments must have Microsoft Dataverse and be in a supported region. If the environment isn't eligible, the AI Builder preview models feature doesn't appear in the Power Platform admin center.
To control AI Builder preview feature availability:
Sign in to the Power Platform admin center.
In the admin center, go to Environments > [select an environment] > Settings > Features.
On the Features settings page, under AI Builder, enable or disable AI Builder preview models.
Important points related to enabling or disabling the feature
If you disable AI Builder preview models:
- We don't delete existing models that users of this environment created.
- AI Builder components are disabled.
- Existing experiences that use existing AI Builder components fail or return errors.
- Admins and owners can delete preview models.
If you enable AI Builder preview models again:
- AI Builder components are available again.
- Components function as they did before the feature was disabled (assuming nothing else changed).
For more information about enabling or disabling features in the Power Platform admin center, go to Manage feature settings.
Enable or disable AI prompts in Power Platform and Copilot Studio
By default, the AI prompts feature is enabled for makers to create and experiment with various AI-generated content. Admins can enable or disable this feature as needed.
If you turn off AI prompts, you aren't be able to use custom or prebuilt prompts. These prompts are essential for tasks like summarizing, categorizing, translating, text completion and generation, and more. They help automate and streamline your work in Power Automate, Power Apps, and Copilot Studio.
An AI prompt is a natural language instruction using a large language model such as GPT, which allows you to perform tasks and serve as a companion to help you meet specific business needs.
Without this feature, these advanced capabilities aren't available.
To control AI prompts feature availability:
- Sign in to Power Platform admin center.
- In the admin center, select Environments > [select an environment] > Settings > Product > Features.
- On the Features settings page under AI Builder, enable or disable the AI prompts the toggle.
Data loss prevention (DLP)
You can control data loss prevention (DLP) policies within Power Platform admin center, Data policies menu item.
Connectors can be listed in three (3) categories: Business, Non-business, and Blocked.
AI Builder is part of the Dataverse connector.
Business and Non-business connectors can’t share data within the same consumption experience in Microsoft Power Platform.
- For example, if you add the Dataverse connector in the Business category, and Microsoft Outlook in the Non-business category, you aren't able to create a Power Automate flow that gets the output of an AI Builder model and sends it to a recipient in Outlook.
Blocked connectors can’t be used in Power Platform consumption experiences.
Learn more in Data loss prevention policies.
Move and copy environments
For prediction and prebuilt models, moving and copying environments is fully supported. For other models, after you move or copy an environment, you have to retrain and republish existing models to make them available again.
Customer-managed keys (CMK) (preview)
Important
- This is a preview feature.
- Preview features aren’t meant for production use and may have restricted functionality. These features are available before an official release so that customers can get early access and provide feedback.
All your data stored in Power Platform is encrypted at rest using Microsoft-managed keys by default. With customer-managed keys (CMKs), you can bring your own encryption keys to encrypt Power Platform data, including AI Builder training data and trained models. This allows you to have an extra protective layer to manage your Power Platform assets. With this feature, you can rotate or swap encryption keys on demand. It also prevents Microsoft’s access to your customer data, if you choose to revoke key access to Microsoft services at any time.
Important
Only models created or copied to the environment after CMK is enabled are encrypted at rest with that key.
Currently, customer-managed keys aren't leveraged to encrypt Object detection trained models. The training data of those modes stored in Dataverse is using customer managed keys.
Applying an encryption key is a gesture performed by Power Platform admins, and is invisible to users. Users can create, save, use, and include in solutions AI Builder models in exactly the same way as if the data was encrypted by Microsoft-managed keys.
Learn more about the customer-managed key and get step-by-step instructions to enable customer-managed keys in Manage your customer-managed encryption key. This enables you to leverage the single enterprise policy created on the environment to secure AI Builder models.