Mario

AI & Emerging Tech | CEO & co-founder at @LayerXlab (AI studio) and @taikainetwork (hackathon platform)

[Mario @hypermarioal]

@HenrM_Cruz Looking good! 😎

[Mario @hypermarioal]

Full story: https://t.co/CmY9wPyd00

[Mario @hypermarioal]

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. 🏆

The full story 👇

[Mario @hypermarioal]

@simplydt @LayerXlab Mostly Hermes with some personal adaptations

[Mario @hypermarioal]

@pedrouid Already thought of that. Happy to contribute

[Mario @hypermarioal]

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.

[Mario @hypermarioal]

https://t.co/0XziosZLcA

[Mario @hypermarioal]

https://t.co/0XziosZLcA

[Mario @hypermarioal]

@henriq__e Carrega Académica!

[Mario @hypermarioal]

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 what’s coming next is wild: AI vs AI hackathons.

The future of building is collaborative, with humans and agents shipping side by side.

[TAIKAI @taikainetwork]

𝗪𝗲’𝘃𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗞𝗔𝗜: 𝗮 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗖𝗣 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿. 🔗

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.

[TAIKAI @taikainetwork]

𝗪𝗲’𝘃𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗞𝗔𝗜: 𝗮 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗖𝗣 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿. 🔗

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.

[Mario @hypermarioal]

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 👇

[LayerX @LayerXlab]

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.

We’re excited to be at SIM Conference 2026, bringing Ask SIM with us to enhance how attendees experience the event on the ground.

[Mario @hypermarioal]

When you replace your whole team with AI and find out you have to do everything now. 😅

[Martinho Correia de Matos @Martinho_cm]

Next week at SIM Conference in Porto🇵🇹 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 🤝

[Mario @hypermarioal]

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 👇

[Mario @hypermarioal]

https://t.co/OdPPg7eXSM

[Mario @hypermarioal]

https://t.co/OdPPg7eXSM

[Helder Vasconcelos ⛩️ @heldervasc]

Do you want to give your blog a voice ? 🔉

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.

https://t.co/2qSjops9nO

[Mario @hypermarioal]

@fidalgo_pt @levelsio Yup. Online works as well.

[Mario @hypermarioal]

We’re so back! 💙🤍