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Planet to Build World’s First GPU-Native AI Engine for Planetary Intelligence with NVIDIA
SAN FRANCISCO, March 16, 2026--Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, today announced its initiative to revolutionize how satellite imagery is processed, enhanced, and analyzed. Planet and NVIDIA are collaborating on ways to adopt GPUs to accelerate processing imagery and delivering insights. Planet is leveraging NVIDIA’s Blackwell and NVIDIA IGX Thor platforms to transform raw pixels into analysis-ready insights in a few seconds instead
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