Perplexity releases pplx-embed-v2-late: frontier late-interaction embedding models for text, images, and pages
antoine_chaffin · x · 2026-10-08
Perplexity is releasing pplx-embed-v2-late, two late-interaction embedding models that retrieve text, images, and pages within a shared embedding space for cross-modal querying.
- Both models reportedly achieve frontier retrieval performance.
- Publicly available on Hugging Face.
A notable production-grade landing of the late-interaction (ColBERT-style) route for unified multimodal retrieval — relevant for RAG builders.
Related event: Perplexity Open-Sources Multimodal Embedding Models pplx-embed-v2-late(38 posts)→
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