Ortigas, 2025 — Inside a glass-walled laboratory on the 16th floor of a digital fortress in Ortigas, scores of machines hum like monks in silent prayer. On the far wall, inlaid in metallic alloy, five words glint in the ambient light: “Be ahead. Don’t chase. Stay fluid.”
This is the epicenter of PSR Capital, the investment firm founded by 41-year-old polymath Joseph Plazo — the man behind the AI now known as “System 72.”
With a 99% win rate in stock markets and unprecedented performance in copyright, Plazo’s self-governing AI engine isn’t just rewriting the rules of finance — it’s reframing our very perception of intelligence, strategy, and risk.
But perhaps more shocking than the numbers is what he did in response.
He made it public.
### The Algorithm That Feels Fear Before It Happens
“We don’t just spot patterns,” Plazo says, running his hand across a glowing interface. “We anticipate panic.”
System 72, the latest in a series of dozens of prototypes over 12 years, is not just a souped-up quant model. It’s a multi-dimensional AI mind with what Plazo calls Emotional Momentum Mapping — a proprietary framework that processes trillions of data points to anticipate how people will feel before the market responds.
“It learns from volume surges, social mood shifts, tweet tone shifts, and global economic turbulence — then simulates thousands of investor psyches simultaneously,” he explains.
The result? A system that doesn’t react to the market. It walks ahead of it like a whisper of the future.
### From Brownouts to Billionaire
A decade ago, Plazo was building neural nets by candlelight in a rented unit in Quezon City. Power outages were routine. The air was sticky. The code was barebones.
“I didn’t have Bloomberg terminals or GPU farms. Just a cracked laptop, textbooks, and relentless drive,” he says, laughing.
He had just quit a well-paying executive job, betting his future on a dream to build a system that could decode human financial behavior — not just with speed, but with empathy.
System 27 was a disaster. System 43 looked promising… until it glitched out during a flash crash. But he kept building. Kept refining.
By System 71, the wins were consistent. With 72, it became world-class.
“I cried when I saw the simulation complete. Not because I was rich. But because… it worked. Finally.”
### The Decision That Stunned Wall Street
When the board of his company reviewed System 72’s results, the reaction was predictable: Monetize it. File intellectual property rights. Sell it to the highest bidder.
Plazo did the opposite.
“I released the source code to twelve top Asian universities,” he says. “No cost. No hedge fund gatekeeping. Just code, curiosity, and courage.”
His reason?
“I’ve seen too many people undone by economic forces they don’t understand,” he says, pausing. “My father was one of them. A smart man. Honest. But one bad investment ended everything.”
Plazo’s voice breaks, the room suddenly heavy. “If he had this system, he wouldn’t have died broke.”
That pain, he says, became the engine. The catalyst. The calling.
### Teaching the World to Win
Plazo has since launched a global AI literacy tour, speaking at institutions from Kyoto University to the prestigious halls of academia. He lectures beside check here machine learning professors who now cite his work to instruct students in behavioral modeling.
“Plazo’s Emotional Momentum framework is the most advanced form of behavioral AI applied to finance today,” says Dr. Hana Kim, a noted expert at SeoulTech. “It doesn’t just analyze numbers — it anticipates behavior.”
Students are building startups using the tech. One PhD student in Bangalore used a modified version to model voter behavior. Another group in Taiwan adapted it for supply chain modeling.
“Once you understand how fear shapes behavior,” Plazo says, “you can apply it to every industry.”
### The Criticism, The Praise — and the Future
Not everyone’s applauding.
Some traditionalists have slammed the release as “irresponsible,” warning that thousands of amateur traders might misuse the tech.
Others whisper darker concerns: That the open-sourced system could lead to unregulated market chaos in hedge fund ecosystems.
But Plazo isn’t worried.
“We gave the world the printing press. It didn’t end language — it multiplied it. This is the same.”
For now, his firm continues to manage billions. But Plazo himself is shifting toward education.
“I’m not building wealth anymore,” he says. “I’m building something bigger. There’s a difference.”
### What Comes After Godmode?
As we leave the lab, the machines keep singing. Outside, Manila traffic snarls — alive, unpredictable, human.
And yet somewhere, a piece of Plazo’s code is already anticipating, learning, forecasting the next move before it happens.
He turns back for a moment and says, “I didn’t build a system to trade stocks. I built a system to give people power over chaos.”
In a world where uncertainty is the only constant, Joseph Plazo didn’t just create a cheat code.
He handed the joystick to the world.