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Perplexity·2 November 2026

Perplexity opens embedding models that search text and scanned pages in context

pplx-embed-v2-context comes in 9B and 0.6B sizes, embeds each chunk with its whole document in view, and handles PDFs and images.

For your businessWhen an AI assistant gives a wrong answer about your own policies or contracts, the cause is often retrieval rather than the language model: it was handed the wrong passage. Better embeddings, especially for scanned and image-heavy documents, are one of the cheapest ways to improve answers, and an open 0.6B model is small enough to run on ordinary hardware.

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