AI & Emerging Tech | CEO & co-founder at @LayerXlab (AI studio) and @taikainetwork (hackathon platform)
Joined March 2011
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Mario retweeted
Jun 12
๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฎ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐, ๐๐ฒ ๐ต๐ฒ๐น๐ฝ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ณ๐ฎ๐๐.
LayerX supports companies build AI products through strategy, design, development, and custom integrations designed for real-world use and scale.
Need an AI partner for your next product? Letโs talk. ๐ค
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Jun 8
I killed my own company and rebuilt it.
@LayerXlab started in Web3. Today it's an AI studio.
Talked through the whole thing on Decoding AI: AI agents for SMEs, vibe coding, and why the winners will be AI-native from day one.
Full episode bellow. ๐ง
Jun 8
Tune in for the new episode of Decoding AI with @hypermarioal. ๐ง
Together with @marcostfcastro and Pedro Aguiar, they discuss LayerXโs transition from Web3 to AI, the rise of AI agents for SMEs, and how vibe coding is changing the way startups are built.
A conversation about AI-native companies, smaller teams, community-led growth, and the future of software.
Listen now. โฌ๏ธ
youtube.com/watch?v=gYESId7bโฆ
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Jun 1
I usually show up to hackathons to organize, mentor or judge.
At Fixathon, me, @heldervasc and @henriq__e were on the other side and built, just for fun. The room was so strong we never expected to win.
We did. ๐
The full story ๐
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May 19
The highest ROI activity in AI right now isn't on your screen.
Two days at SIM Conference in Porto. No laptop, just people. I came back with the one thing the timeline never hands me: clarity.
The firehose tells you what's loud. A room full of people you trust tells you what's true.
Wrote about what that actually looked like.
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May 13
This is huge. TAIKAI just became the first agentic hackathon platform.
Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini can now connect natively and act on your behalf.
And whatโs coming next is wild: AI vs AI hackathons.
The future of building is collaborative, with humans and agents shipping side by side.
May 13
๐ช๐ฒโ๐๐ฒ ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฎ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ท๐ผ๐ฟ ๐บ๐ถ๐น๐ฒ๐๐๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ง๐๐๐๐๐: ๐ฎ ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐ป๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ผ๐ฟ. ๐
This makes TAIKAI the first agentic hackathon platform, where AI models like @claudeai, @OpenAI's ChatGPT, and @GeminiApp can connect directly to the platform and take action on your behalf.
And this is only step one.
Next up: something even bigger, the first hackathon where AI models compete against each other. Stay tuned.
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Mario retweeted
May 13
๐ช๐ฒโ๐๐ฒ ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฎ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ท๐ผ๐ฟ ๐บ๐ถ๐น๐ฒ๐๐๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ง๐๐๐๐๐: ๐ฎ ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐ป๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ผ๐ฟ. ๐
This makes TAIKAI the first agentic hackathon platform, where AI models like @claudeai, @OpenAI's ChatGPT, and @GeminiApp can connect directly to the platform and take action on your behalf.
And this is only step one.
Next up: something even bigger, the first hackathon where AI models compete against each other. Stay tuned.
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May 11
Every conference should have one of these.
Ask SIM = AI concierge for SIM Conference 2026. Speakers, schedule, venue, tickets, networking. Instant answers, with sources.
Proud of what the @LayerXlab team shipped for @StartupPortugal ๐
May 11
Introducing Ask SIM, an AI concierge created by LayerX for SIM Conference 2026, a @StartupPortugal innitiative.
Ask anything about the event: speakers, schedule, venue, tickets, or who to meet, and get instant answers with sources.
Weโre excited to be at SIM Conference 2026, bringing Ask SIM with us to enhance how attendees experience the event on the ground.
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May 8
When you replace your whole team with AI and find out you have to do everything now. ๐
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Mario retweeted
Next week at SIM Conference in Porto๐ต๐น with @pcbo and @hypermarioal
"Ship or Die: AI Agents for Founders"
I'll break down how AI is reshaping what startups need to raise, how much, and when.
Pedro demos his personal AI chief of staff live on stage.
Join us ๐ค
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May 6
For every $1 a company spends on software, it spends $6 on services.
That gap is the entire opportunity.
The question every AI founder should be asking:
Are you selling the tool, or the work?
Wrote a manifesto on the Service as a Software era ๐
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Mario retweeted
Do you want to give your blog a voice ? ๐
How we turned posts into audio with open models, locally, on a Mac with mlx .
At first it might seem easy.
Grab the first text-to-speech library you find, point it at a markdown file, and let it talk.
We tried that early on, just to feel the shape of the problem.
The result was instructive. By instructive I mean: it sounded awful.
I wrote an article on @LayerXlab detailing the entire process, from the three stages pipeline, to how we run it on a laptop.
blog.layerx.xyz/audio-narratโฆ
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May 1
Unleash the agents (humans or non-humans) ๐ต๏ธ
Loved the energy at Agents Day! People defending their agent like it was their child.
Congrats @pcbo and @_pedro_torres for putting this together.
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Apr 27
Most companies don't have an AI problem. They have an ownership problem.
The tech is a commodity. Finding someone inside who actually owns the outcome is what separates pilots from production.
Talked to @Linktoleaders about this. Link in the comments ๐
Apr 27
โWhatโs missing is not access to technology, itโs someone inside the company who owns the topic.โ
In a recent @Linktoleaders interview, our CEO @hypermarioal explains why many companies are still stuck in pilot mode and what it really takes to turn AI into production systems that deliver real business value.
At LayerX, we focus on closing that gap, building real AI products, not slides.
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I spent the last few months testing AI agents.
Open frameworks, pre-built assistants, dedicated platforms.
None stuck.
So I built my own.
Eva lives in Telegram, handles voice/vision/PDFs, and can write her own new tools at runtime.
Now open source. ๐
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