Comparison · AI assistants
Curiosity and Microsoft 365 Copilot
Inside the suite, or across the estate
Curiosity reaches the whole industrial estate; Microsoft 365 Copilot works across Microsoft’s own suite.
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.
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft’s assistant across Microsoft 365, with Copilot Search over SharePoint, Teams, Outlook and OneDrive, and connectors that bring other content into the Microsoft Graph. It works best when knowledge lives inside Microsoft tools, and it runs in the Microsoft cloud.
How Curiosity compares
Where the boundary falls
If everything you need is in Microsoft 365, Copilot is hard to argue with, and many of your users already have it. Industrial knowledge is rarely all there: it is in ticket systems, file shares, S3 buckets and engineering tools that predate the cloud.
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
Microsoft cloud
Data model
Managed context layer and knowledge graph
Search and chat over the Microsoft Graph
Industrial fit
Built for industrial and enterprise teams
Organizations standardized on Microsoft
Data reach
70+ systems connected, and yours through a connector you write
Microsoft 365 and Copilot connectors
Residency
EU hosted, or entirely your own infrastructure
Microsoft regions
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
Other comparisons in this group
Glean
Curiosity connects complex industrial data; Glean focuses on cloud applications.
CompareGemini Enterprise
Curiosity connects complex industrial data; Gemini Enterprise is Google’s assistant for cloud work.
CompareAmazon Quick
Curiosity models industrial records; Amazon Quick is AWS’s assistant for search, research and BI.
CompareYour data. Your infrastructure.