Don Delvy, the inventor of modern-day cloud computing as well as the smartplatform, has been working on “automated software on the internet” since 1994.
His smartplatform, he says, “is the new benchmark for web 3.0. Web 3.0, the decentralized third generation of the web.”
Delvy’s journey in developing the smartplatform, the cornerstone of his framework, is intriguing.
In the early 1990s, he attended Purdue University as an amateur athlete. After transferring to a new major of computer science and a master of business administration, he was set up for a new career — going from a high-level athlete to creating a business plan to eliminate friction in computing, as well as eliminating friction points in business and society.
“I produced an algorithm for a singular platform for athletes to promote themselves, interact, and profit through the aggregation of authentic locations online, in real time,” he says.
He says he was told by Purdue University, which researches with the United States Patent Office, he was the inventor of what is now called cloud computing, and the smartplatform, “but I was told to get a job because what I was proposing was at least 20 years away.”
So in 1996, he got a job directing franchise sales and business development for a “start-up” hotel franchise company launched by Mike Leven, former President and CEO of Holiday Inn worldwide. This experience gave Delvy valuable business insight.
“It was perfect. We built companies from ground-up, created markets, and developed new construction hotels throughout the Northeast, and many times all over the United States, with multi-millionaire and billionaire developers. For three years, it was non-stop development,” he says. The company went public and was bought by Hyatt.
By 2001, Delvy began beta-testing, with the invention of the intelligent Sports “1-Click Auction System” (IaaS/smartplatform prototype)-eBay 2001, and the “1-Click Site Launch System,” but met pushback.
“I pitched my idea to Microsoft,” he says. “They told me it was never going to happen. They believed no one was going to run software on the internet. This was 5 years before the advent of AWS [Amazon Web Services, a branch of Amazon dedicated to delivering cloud computing platforms and APIs for individuals, businesses, and governmental entities] in 2006,” he says.
Today, the smartplatform is the prototype for the next-generation internet company, Delvy says. “Our AI algorithm will have at least the same impact that Google’s search algorithm had.”
Delvy has already seen massive market demand for his solution. Some 99% of businesses and their employees do not have an information technology team or Chief Information Officer, according to the 2022 figures by the Small Business Administration, a U.S. government entity working to bolster and promote the economy by assisting small businesses, Delvy says. “This makes them unable to access intelligent systems ie cloud computing services.”
He explains this atmosphere with a critical STEM [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] deficit in the labor markets, lack of capital expenditure, and unwillingness from companies to establish or invest in IT teams — whether for lack of resources or misjudging the importance of such expertise for a company. “We believe every user in every industry deserves an enterprise solution. This is where our solution can help companies.”
An important pinpoint of Delvy’s smartplatform, he says, is that it offers massively scalable yet sustainable solutions that align with a company’s environmental, social, and corporate governance requirements.
Delvy also provides singular artificial intelligence solutions in industry-specific AI technology by offering turnkey cloud solutions via his smartplatform. The first industry Delvy is focused on, given his history and expertise, is sports.
D1OL, the sports smartplatform, is now polishing the smartplatform Delvy invented almost 3 decades ago, and started building almost two decades ago. The smartplatform will help athletes and fans to interact with each other, and develop and invest in themselves to become the owners of the next generation of internet,” he says. “It also helps users monetize their name, image, likeness, and brand in scale by aggregating the D1OL “official solutions.”
“If you move your website to the D1OL platform, you get access to a network specifically built for you and join the next-generation smartplatform. Time is money; and there is nothing faster, more efficient, more intelligent, or more secure to drive revenues and save money than the smartplatform,” he concludes.
The smartplatform will run on a private cloud, which is a crucial advantage of the smartplatform, Delvy says. He has proven that “private cloud AI solutions offer the computing of clean data with his smartplatform.” This characteristic is not present in public cloud-based solutions, such as the Chat GPT, a generative large language model generative AI.
In conclusion, Delvy offers a chilling opinion about some of the popular AI leaders in the marketplace running “generative AI” on public clouds. “Analytical and discriminative modeling utilizing cloud computing and AI pose no inherent issues and may not be particularly thrilling. In contrast, generative modeling stands out as “digital uranium” — undeniably the most powerful technology in the history of humankind, right behind nuclear.
“However,” Delvy concludes, “when executed improperly, such as deploying Large Language Models on a public cloud, we risk encountering a scenario reminiscent of Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning meeting Oppenheimer, highlighting the potential dangers of mishandling such nascent technology.”
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