The Genius Who Gave Away His Brain
The Genius Who Gave Away His Brain
Blog Article
What happens when someone creates a trading AI that humiliates Wall Street—and then open-sources it?
Under a canopy of chandeliers in Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands, Joseph Plazo stepped onto the stage, flash drive in hand.
“This,” he said, raising a tiny flash drive, “contains the code that made us billions. And I’m giving it away.”
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 speaks like a philosopher and dresses like a diplomat.
When asked how his AI firm cracked the markets, he doesn’t cite algorithms. He recounts loss.
“My father made one mistake,” he says, sipping black coffee in Makati. “And the market erased him.”
That moment lit the fire for a lifelong obsession: defeating emotion with code.
## System 72: A Machine That Thinks in Emotion
The result: System 72, a machine designed to feel volatility before it happens.
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 dodged the 2024 oil crash. It rode the tech micro-rally after Taiwan’s semiconductor scare.
## The Big Release: Why He Gave It Away
And then, stunning the world, he gave it away—to the classrooms of Asia.
From Tsinghua to NUS to the University of Tokyo, students got access to the magic.
His only ask: make it better—and pay it forward.
Suddenly, it wasn’t just about finance—it was about disaster modeling, logistics, and public service.
## Critics, Cynics, and Controlled Chaos
The titans of finance… were not amused.
“This is destabilizing,” warned a Wall Street insider.
“When sharing feels radical,” he says, “it means capitalism’s compass is broken.”
Still, key infrastructure—execution engines, capital controls—remains in his vault.
“I gave away the brain,” he says. “You still have to build the body.”
## 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 maybe, just maybe, this is his promise to a man who lost everything on a bad bet—his father.
## The Final Word
What happens next is anyone’s guess.
The system may be abused—or it may usher in a new economic paradigm.
But Plazo didn’t just invent. He invited the world to evolve.
Leaving the stage, he turned to the horizon.
“The richest man is the one who needs to own the least,” he Joseph Plazo mused.
And like that, the architect of tomorrow disappeared into today.