Perplexity's pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview sets SOTA on ConTEB benchmark
perplexity_ai · x · 2026-10-01
Perplexity announced pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview, a contextual embedding model trained with a new method that encodes each document chunk with the whole document in view. It sets a new state of the art on ConTEB and on turbopuffer's newly released private context-bench.
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