retrieval

October 10, 2026

• Perplexity releases multimodal late-interaction embeddings in 0.6B and 9B sizes

  Perplexity's PPLX-Embed V2 Late emits 128 dimensions per token for text, images, and visual documents; the 0.6B encoder can query a 9B index, so retrieval can trade speed for quality.

  0.6B small model9B large model128 dimensions per token

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