How Joseph Plazo’s ‘Godmode’ AI Is Being Given Away to the World

By Special Feature by Forbes Asia

The man who outplayed the market didn’t lock away his creation. He set it free.

Hong Kong, 2025 — Inside a lecture hall at the University of Hong Kong, Joseph Plazo prepared to blow the minds of finance's future.

PhDs and programmers sat frozen, eyes locked on the projector as a piece of market history appeared as code.

“This line of code,” he said, “is what beat Wall Street.”

“And now it’s yours to evolve.”

## The Code That Outplayed Wall Street

Godmode—formally known as System 72—emerged after 12 years and 71 failures.

System 72 blends behavioral forecasting, sentiment parsing, and high-frequency trade logic.

It scrapes Reddit threads, decodes Fed speech stress levels, reads derivatives flow, and parses tweet tone.

“We built a machine to sense fear before it echoes in the charts,” he adds.

The results? Astonishing.

It dodged crashes. Nailed rallies. Some weeks, it never lost.

Billions flowed in quietly, trade by trade.

## Then Came the Twist

One afternoon, overlooking Manila’s skyline, Plazo dropped a bomb on his partners.

“It’s time the world had this,” he declared.

The room froze. One exec dropped his pen. Another asked if it was satire.

Instead of selling it to the highest bidder, he seeded it to the future.

“I don’t believe in bottlenecks,” he explained. “I believe in bridges.”

## The Educational Revolution That Followed

Soon, labs from Singapore to Japan were adapting the code in wildly creative ways.

Jakarta students used it to detect unrest. Seoul labs used it to predict EV charging loads.

“This could be AI’s Gutenberg moment,” one Singapore professor claimed.

Even the IMF quietly requested a trial.

## Critics, Controversy, and the Ethics of Genius

Naturally, the elite weren’t thrilled.

“He’s playing with fire,” said a Wall Street analyst.

But Plazo didn’t blink.

“You don’t blame the scalpel,” he said. “You train the hand.”

Only the logic is open. The machinery remains secure.

“The spark is free. The fire’s up to you.”

## Real Stories from the Ground

In Manila, a single mom turned $400 into $14,000 using a simplified version.

In Vietnam, rural scholars built a click here financial literacy app to hedge vendor losses.

A Mumbai coder called it “the key that opened my family's future.”

## The Philosophy That Powers the Gift

Why give away billions in code? “Because intelligence spreads best when it’s not caged,” he said.

Knowledge is infrastructure—not a luxury item.

“We’ve spent decades treating code like gold. I treat it like electricity,” he said.

## Conclusion: The Joystick Is Yours Now

He surveys the room—young minds, old dreams, and new tools.

“Markets were my test bed,” he says. “Empowerment is the real product.”

In a data-driven age, he opened the source of brilliance.

And somewhere, a kid is writing the next version of System 72—because now, they can.