Perplexity Releases pplx-embed-v2-late Embedding Models With Frontier Retrieval Performance

Key Info

Perplexity released pplx-embed-v2-late, a pair of late-interaction embedding models that retrieve text, images, and pages within a shared embedding space for cross-modal querying, with both models publicly available on Hugging Face.

Highlights

• Two late-interaction embedding models in the pplx-embed-v2-late family
• Shared embedding space enables querying across text, images, and pages
• Achieves 92.4% on MADQA (500 questions over 800 PDFs), the top result among retrievers
• Described as frontier performance
• Publicly available on Hugging Face