Perplexity AI has launched pplx-embed-v2-late, a set of two ColBERT-style multimodal embedding models. The models are available in a 0.6B parameter version designed for edge devices and a larger 9B parameter version optimized for quality. Both models can process text, images, and rendered PDFs, sharing a unified embedding space, and are released under an MIT license for self-hosting. AI
IMPACT Enables efficient multimodal search and retrieval, particularly for documents and on edge devices.
RANK_REASON Model release from Perplexity AI, a notable AI company, with details on model sizes and performance.
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