Perplexity releases pplx-embed-v2-late, a 0.6B edge model and 9B model

Perplexity has released pplx-embed-v2-late, a pair of ColBERT-style multimodal embedding models in 0.6B and 9B sizes that retrieve text, images and rendered PDF pages in a shared embedding space. Both are available on Hugging Face under the MIT license, while a hosted API endpoint is planned but not yet live.