Open 9B ColBERT retrieval models released, frontier results on text, multimodal and agentic retrieval
antoine_chaffin · x · 2026-10-08
antoinechaffin releases the previously teased 9B in-house ColBERT model along with a smaller sibling, both open. The models reportedly reach frontier results across text, multimodal and agentic retrieval, with an asymmetric design supporting various production deployment scenarios. Blog and model links in the post; feedback welcome.
Related event: Perplexity Open-Sources Multimodal Embedding Models pplx-embed-v2-late(38 posts)→
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