OCTAVIA : Òc to intelligence, No to dependence

Team name:

ÒCTAVIA

Use of AI tools :

We used several AI tools as working partners throughout every stage of the project:

• Claude, Gemini, Perplexity — research, brainstorming, code support, communication, and image generation

• Grok — video generation

• Self Hosted LLM models for POC / Documentations

• Judicious use of models, small models for text generation and large models for advanced reasoning

These tools allowed us to (1) deliver a more polished project by saving development time, (2) communicate our ideas more clearly through reformulation, image/video generation, and translation, (3) focus on the substance by delegating repetitive low-value tasks, and (4) challenge our own thinking by confronting our ideas to several models.

External feedback & contributions :

André Aoun — Mentor (University of Toulouse) — Continuous mentoring, challenged our ideas and our vision, helped us run the project alongside a heavy academic schedule

Alain Goudey — Keynote speaker — Pushed us to clearly articulate what makes ÒCTAVIA an actual innovation; this question reshaped our final proposal

Saiph Savage — Keynote speaker — Her keynote on Human-Centered AI, strongly resonated with and reinforced our student-centered design philosophy

Bastien Guerry – Keynote speaker – Helped us realize the importance of open source, its various facets and benefits, as well as the risks that the rise of AI poses to this ecosystem.

All Phase 2 keynote speakers — Provided concepts and frameworks that either confirmed our direction or prompted productive course corrections

Other participants and commenters — Comments on our proposal (and our reading of others') helped us identify which aspects of our work needed to be brought forward

Initial contribution: OCTAVIA : Òc to intelligence, No to dependence

Final contribution:

Our final contribution is the result of substantial design, technical, and pedagogical work that does not fit cleanly into a single text field. We have therefore organized it as a set of focused, self-contained resources. Each link below points to one part of the work.

Reflection on the process — how the Challenge shaped our project — https://octavia.maelg.com/reflection

Building ÒCTAVIA Analysis — https://octavia.maelg.com/building

Project vision, motivation, and pedagogical philosophy — https://octavia.maelg.com/landscape

Technical architecture (multi-agent ecosystem, Safe RAG, model strategy) — https://octavia.maelg.com/architecture

Proof of Concept — full documentation and presentation — https://octavia.maelg.com/login

One-minute pitch video