Perplexity Releases pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview, Matches Voyage With 8x Less Storage
perplexity_ai · x · 2026-10-01
Perplexity launched pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview on Hugging Face. It posts the highest average nDCG@10 on ConTEB among tested models (not on every task) and beats voyage-context-4 on chunk retrieval while using 8x less storage per vector: 1 KB (1024 dims, int8) vs 8 KB (2048, float32).
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