He Built the World’s Smartest Trading AI—Then Taught It to Students
He Built the World’s Smartest Trading AI—Then Taught It to Students
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By Special Feature from Forbes Tech Desk
He built the smartest trading system alive—and gave it away.
Seoul, South Korea — At Seoul National University, a full house of professors, students, and analysts awaited Joseph Plazo’s keynote.
Bloomberg reporters scribbled beside AI engineers. Professors sat next to grad students. Everyone leaned in.
He started with a whisper: “Hedge funds would pay millions to bury this.”
And just like that, a billionaire began open-sourcing Wall Street’s crown jewel: a fully autonomous AI trading system with a 99% win rate in equities, and 95% in copyright.
## The Unlikely Hero of High Finance
He didn’t come from the boardrooms of Manhattan or the lecture halls of Yale.
He came from Quezon City, where power outages outlasted boot times—and dreams ran on candlelight.
“The market is biased—toward those with access,” he once said. “I wanted to balance the scales.”
So he trained a system to understand investors better than investors understood themselves.
When it clicked, he didn’t monetize. He democratized.
## Stealing Fire—and Lighting the World
It took 12 years and 72 attempts to perfect the algorithm.
It didn’t crunch numbers. It decoded behavior.
From news to noise to nuance—System 72 absorbed it all.
It became a radar for volatility and opportunity hidden beneath chaos.
One fund manager called it “a weather radar for investor fear.”
And rather than cash out, he gifted its code—unconditionally.
“I built it. You evolve it,” he told the world’s leading academic institutions.
## Rewriting the Grammar of Capital
Six months later, classrooms became innovation labs.
In Vietnam, agriculture met AI—and got smarter.
In Indonesia, labs tuned the algorithm to optimize grid reliability.
In Malaysia, undergrads helped local shops hedge currency risk.
Plazo didn’t just share code—he seeded a mindset.
“The market is a language,” he said in Kyoto. “But we locked the dictionary. I’m unlocking it.”
## Wall Street’s Whisper Campaign
The old guard responded—with murmurs and warnings.
“This is irresponsible,” a Wall Street insider grumbled. “Too much power, too freely given.”
But the more they warned, the more he taught.
“Leverage shouldn’t be hoarded—it should be distributed,” he countered.
“This is power redistribution, not philanthropy,” Plazo said.
## The World Tour of Revolution
Now, he’s traveling from slums to skyscrapers, spreading the gospel of shared intelligence.
In Manila, he simplified complexity—for 10th graders.
In Jakarta, he helped draft ethical AI guidelines with regulators.
In Thailand, he built hope in three days with laptops and questions.
“Knowledge compounds when it’s passed on,” he tells every crowd.
## Analogy: The Gutenberg of Capital
One AI ethicist in Tokyo called System 72 “the website printing press of predictive wealth.”
Just as Gutenberg democratized knowledge, Plazo democratized prediction.
The elite guard algorithms. Plazo hands out the keys.
“Prediction is oxygen,” he says. “Stop bottling it.”
## Legacy Over Luxury
The firm thrives, but his soul lives in System 72’s classrooms.
System 73? “It’ll feel the world more than it measures it,” he hints.
And he won’t keep that secret either.
“Wealth should signal your power to uplift—not your capacity to hoard,” he says.
## Final Note: What Happens When You Hand Over the Code?
In a world where code is currency, Joseph Plazo gave his away.
Not for fame. Not for flash. For faith in what’s next.
And if his students succeed, they won’t just beat the market.