Comparison
A modern alternative
to Dust
Curiosity models industrial data on your infrastructure; Dust runs team agents in the cloud.
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.
Dust
A Paris company’s platform for building AI agents that teams use across their tools, such as Slack, Notion, Google Drive and GitHub, with a choice of models. It is delivered as a cloud service.
How Curiosity compares
Agents for the team’s tools, or for the plant’s records
Dust is quick to adopt where knowledge lives in collaboration tools. Curiosity connects the engineering systems and structured records an industrial question depends on, and runs on your own infrastructure.
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
| Curiosity | Dust | |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Cloud or self-hosted, ready to use | Vendor cloud |
| Data model | Managed context layer and knowledge graph | Agents over connected tools |
| Industrial fit | Built for industrial and enterprise teams | Knowledge workers, tool-led |
| Data reach | Connects your sources out of the box | Collaboration and SaaS tools |
| Residency | EU hosted, or entirely your own infrastructure | Vendor cloud |
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.