Comparison
A modern alternative
to C3 AI
Curiosity gives you a context layer your teams build on; C3 AI sells enterprise AI applications.
Who each tool is for
Different problems, honestly stated
Curiosity
For industrial and regulated teams whose knowledge sits in engineering systems and structured records, where the answer depends on how those records connect, and where the deployment has to run on their own infrastructure.
C3 AI
An enterprise AI company selling prebuilt applications, for reliability, supply chain and defense among others, and a platform for building more. Deployments are typically large programs in industrial, energy and government settings.
How Curiosity compares
An application catalog, or tools you describe
C3 AI brings finished applications for well-known problems. Curiosity is for the many smaller tools each team needs, built by describing them on a graph your own engineers can evaluate first.
Every record, not only plant data
Sensor and asset data tell you what happened. The tickets, part records, supplier notices and field reports around them tell you why. Curiosity joins both.
Across vendors, not inside one
A plant runs systems from many suppliers. Curiosity connects them into one graph rather than adding intelligence to one vendor’s applications.
Tools your teams describe
Studio builds the app, dashboard or agent from a sentence, on the connected data, so a new tool is not a new project.
Side by side
Feature comparison
| Curiosity | C3 AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Cloud or self-hosted, ready to use | Cloud or on premises |
| Data model | Managed context layer and knowledge graph | Platform and prebuilt applications |
| Industrial fit | Built for industrial and enterprise teams | Industrial, energy, government |
| Data reach | Connects your sources out of the box | Broad, with services |
| Residency | EU hosted, or entirely your own infrastructure | Configurable |
At Airbus, we developed the next generation of customer support AI assistance tools with Curiosity, enhancing our technical support’s ability to access and navigate vast data from multiple sources, including millions of documents.
Services Innovation Team
Airline Services at Airbus
Your data. Your infrastructure.