Perplexity ships pplx-embed-v2 embeddings, tops MADQA retrieval at 92.4%
perplexity_ai · x · 2026-10-08
- Perplexity announced pplx-embed-v2, its second set of text embedding models, now live on Hugging Face in 0.6B, 8B (late) and 8B (context preview) variants.
- The models reach 92.4% on MADQA (500 questions over 800 PDFs), the top result among retrievers.
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