Perplexity Open-Sources pplx-embed-v2-late, a Multimodal Embedding Model That Skips OCR

Perplexity released pplx-embed-v2-late on October 7, 2026 — open-weight 0.6B and 9B late-interaction embedding models that search text, images, PDFs, and slide decks without OCR or chunking, with the small model able to query indexes built by the large one.