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late interaction retrieval

Every THE D[AI]LY BRIEF article on late interaction retrieval — enterprise AI analysis, benchmarks, vendor comparisons, and ROI frameworks for technology and business leaders. Updated as new coverage publishes.

pplx-embed-v2-late

Perplexity's Open Embedders Skip OCR but Store a Vector per Token

Perplexity's MIT-licensed pplx-embed-v2-late models search page images with no OCR or chunking, and a 0.6B model can query a 9B-built index. The catch is a multi-vector index that published measurements put at 20x to 64x a dense one.

October 11, 2026 · 9 min read