Build the world’s smartest AI trader, then hand it over for free? That’s either mad genius or a masterclass in leadership.

Under a canopy of chandeliers in Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands, Joseph Plazo stepped onto the stage, flash drive in hand.

“This is the brain that beat the markets,” he said, lifting a USB. “And I’m giving it to the world.”

You could hear the collective gasp. A billion-dollar algorithm was now everyone’s.

And just like that, Joseph Plazo changed the future of finance—not by selling brilliance, but by sharing it.

## The Genius Behind the Code

Now 41, Plazo carries the demeanor of a poet, not a profiteer.

He’s both charismatic and cryptic—more monk than mogul.

He doesn’t begin with lines of code when you ask how his firm built a trading machine. He starts with heartbreak.

“I watched my father lose everything on a bad investment,” he tells me over coffee in Makati.

That was when young Joseph vowed to build a system smarter than fear.

## System 72: A Machine That Thinks in Emotion

What emerged 12 years later was System 72—an AI that reads markets the way humans read faces.

This wasn’t just price analysis. This was emotional forensics.

From breaking news to atmospheric anomalies, System 72 digests it all in seconds.

“It’s intuition—only faster, smarter, relentless,” Plazo explains.

In less than a year, it transformed $25M into $3.8B.

It correctly called the oil dip of 2024—and capitalized on tech’s Taiwan rebound.

## The Big Release: Why He Gave It Away

But instead of monetizing it like any hedge fund would, Plazo released the core AI to twelve elite Asian universities.

He handed it to minds, not money.

The only rule: upgrade it, don’t bury it.

In weeks, Seoul students were simulating real-time markets. In Jakarta, a PhD candidate modeled flood insurance with it. In India, undergrads used it to optimize food distribution during monsoons.

## Critics, Cynics, and Controlled Chaos

Not everyone cheered.

“He’s naïve or dangerous,” grumbled one hedge fund veteran.

“When sharing feels get more info radical,” he says, “it means capitalism’s compass is broken.”

But Plazo isn’t careless. He shared the brain, not the fortress.

“The soul is public,” he notes. “But the skeleton stays in-house.”

## Spreading the Mindset: The God Algorithm Tour

Since then, he’s traveled the globe on what’s been dubbed the God Algorithm World Tour.

He teaches. He challenges. He demystifies.

“He’s not just sharing code,” says Prof. Mei Lin of NUS. “He’s sharing a philosophy.”

## His True Legacy

What kind of man hands over a fortune’s worth of foresight?

Because he sees information as the great equalizer—not a luxury.

“No smart kid should lose to a rigged system,” he says.

And perhaps, it’s also redemption—for a father who trusted the market too much.

## The Final Word

What happens next is anyone’s guess.

Chaos may come. So might evolution.

What he gave the world wasn’t just genius—but permission.

As we left the Marina Bay ballroom, he looked over the skyline.

“They say wealth is control,” he said. “But true wealth… is what you can give away.”

And with that, the man who outsmarted markets walked offstage—not with a roar, but with a whisper.