Marshall: Current LLMs are blind to real-world physical data
Will Marshall · The IPO Comeback: Why Tech Giants Are Finally Going Public | All-In Liquidity IPO Panel · Jun 6, 2026 · at 31:22
Will Marshall, co-founder and CEO of Planet Labs, discusses the limitations of current Large Language Models during a panel at the All-In Liquidity Summit.
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“I like to say, like, all the cool stuff that we're doing on the, with LLMs now, is really based on just the text of the internet being absorbed into these models, which is incredibly powerful already, but they don't know shit about the real world. I call them blind.”
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