Comparison · AI assistants
Curiosity and Cohere and Aleph Alpha
Sovereign models, or a modeled context layer
Curiosity connects and models industrial data; Cohere and Aleph Alpha run sovereign models and assistants.
Your data · your environment
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.
Cohere and Aleph Alpha
Cohere’s North is a platform for secure AI agents and assistants that can run on your own infrastructure, air gapped included, for office work such as chat, search and report writing. Aleph Alpha’s PhariaAI operates sovereign AI applications for enterprises and the public sector. The two signed an agreement in September 2026 to combine as Cohere, based in Toronto and Berlin, pending regulatory approval.
How Curiosity compares
Where the boundary falls
Both run where your data must stay, and Curiosity runs Cohere models. The difference is what sits underneath: North and PhariaAI operate the models and assist over your tools, Curiosity models the entities and relationships in your records first.
Built for the industrial estate
General assistants are tuned for cloud collaboration tools. Curiosity connects engineering systems, data lakes, network drives and proprietary sources.
Structured context, not a chat layer
The graph models entities and relationships, so answers reason over how records connect rather than over retrieved passages.
On your infrastructure
On premises or private cloud, with data residency you control and the model of your choice.
Side by side
Feature comparison
The same five questions, answered for both.
Deployment
Cloud or self-hosted, ready to use
Self-hosted, sovereign or vendor cloud
Data model
Managed context layer and knowledge graph
Models and an assistant over connected tools
Industrial fit
Built for industrial and enterprise teams
Office work, enterprise and public sector
Data reach
70+ systems connected, and yours through a connector you write
Office and CRM tools
Residency
EU hosted, or entirely your own infrastructure
Canada, Germany or your environment
Customization
What your team can change
Your own code, interface, data model and configuration. Cohere and Aleph Alpha as its own documentation described it in October 2026. Where it says Not available, the vendor documents no such capability.
Your own code
C# endpoints, AI tools and tasks, compiled in Studio
Python skills compiled to WebAssembly in PhariaEngine
Your own interface
Your own front end in C#, deployed from git
Vue apps in PhariaAssistant, North builds lightweight apps
Data model
Typed node and edge schemas you define
Not available
Configuration as code
Every change committed to git, pushed to your remote
Skills deployed via OCI registries and CI/CD
APIs and SDKs
REST API, C# and Python library, connector SDK
REST APIs, OpenAI compatible SDK use, PhariaAI SDKs
AI integration
What AI can build and reach
Whether AI can build on it, who reviews the result, and which models it runs. Cohere and Aleph Alpha as its own documentation described it in October 2026.
AI that builds
Sudo drafts endpoints, tools, schemas and screens
North builds agents, automations and apps from prompts
Review before it applies
Every change a diff a person approves, in a sandbox
Plan mode review, testing before publishing to production
Model choice
Any major provider, or an OpenAI compatible endpoint
Command models, model agnostic, OpenAI compatible connectors
Models on your servers
Open weights on your servers, or air gapped
On premises or air gapped, open weights in PhariaAI
Assistant permissions
Built in tools search as the user, per record
Compass enforces document permissions during retrieval
Agent protocols
MCP server and an OpenAI compatible API
MCP tools, A2A in Pharia Chat, OpenAI compatible API
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
AI assistants
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