Perplexity AI releases pplx-embed-v2-late models for multimodal search

Key Summary

Perplexity AI has released two new embedding models, pplx-embed-v2-late, for multimodal search, which can handle retrieval across text, images, and visual documents. The models use a late-interaction architecture and can be queried using a lightweight 0.6B model with a 9B-indexed corpus, making them efficient for web-scale applications.