At TED, Robbie Schingler Explores the Promise of Planetary Intelligence

In a 2018 TED talk, Planet CEO and Co-Founder Will Marshall asked the audience: What if we can use AI to understand how the world is changing?

Earlier this year, Planet Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Robbie Schingler stood on the same TED stage and shared that this vision is becoming a reality, with the help of Planetary Intelligence.

Planetary Intelligence integrates global satellite imagery with artificial intelligence (AI) to bridge the gap between awareness and meaningful, timely action.

Click here to watch the talk and hear the complete vision for Planetary Intelligence, learn how advances in satellite technology and AI are making it possible, and explore how insights from satellite data are already being used to protect life on Earth.

With AI-driven Planetary Intelligence, governments and organizations can monitor and interpret global change to be more responsive to the complexities of the 21st century, and help life on Earth adapt and thrive.

“Planetary Intelligence doesn't just change what we do; it changes how we know the world, and our place within it,” Robbie shared.

One step towards this vision is Planet’s new agentic AI app, now available at no cost while in beta. This new tool synthesizes satellite data, AI-enabled change detection, and public information in a simple, map-based chat interface, to provide geospatial insights almost instantly.

Whether detecting new infrastructure construction or investigating land use change over time, the combination of frequent data and agentic reasoning delivers analysis at a level of scale and complexity that was previously impractical.

To explore it for yourself, join the beta today.

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