Perplexity News 09/30/2026 Read AI Rating: Medium
Perplexity Releases a Contextual Embedding Model That Retrieves Evidence, Not Just Answers
Perplexity published research on September 30, 2026 introducing pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview, a 9B-parameter embedding model trained to retrieve supporting context alongside answers, plus Context-bench, a new benchmark for evaluating that capability.