200 satellites, 25 TB/day
Planet Labs operates 200 satellites generating 25 terabytes of Earth imagery every single day.
Snapshot · Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
The $10B Satellite Empire Putting AI in Orbit, Why Chips Beat Rockets & China's #1 Open Model | EP #266
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Jun 26, 2026
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Episode Roadmap & Will Marshall's Background
At 4:04 · chapter starts 3:20
Peter previews all stories — Planet, Eric Schmidt's Relativity Space, AI brain drain, GLM 5.2, and collapsing inference prices — then gives Will's credentials and Planet's stats.
Planet stock up 450% in 1 year
Planet Labs' stock ticker PL increased approximately 450% over the last year.
Large Earth Models: Indexing the Planet Like Google Indexed the Web
LLMs have read every book but never looked out the window. Planet Labs is building large Earth models that add real-world sensing to AI — 150 petabytes of daily satellite imagery that lets you ask not just what the world knows, but what the world is doing right now.
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