Perplexity open-sources pplx-embed-v2-late late-interaction embedding models
antoine_chaffin · x · 2026-10-08
Perplexity officially released pplx-embed-v2-late: two late-interaction embedding models (9B and 0.6B) that retrieve text, images and pages within a shared embedding space, enabling cross-model querying. Both reportedly reach frontier performance and are publicly available on Hugging Face. Team engineer Denis Bykov credited contributors Wang Bo, Antoine Chaffin and the team.
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