# We're releasing pplx-embed-v2-late, two late-interaction embedding models that retrieve text, images, and pages with a shared embedding space for cross-model querying

**URL:** <https://community.perplexity.ai/t/were-releasing-pplx-embed-v2-late-two-late-interaction-embedding-models-that-retrieve-text-images-and-pages-with-a-shared-embedding-space-for-cross-model-querying/6296>\
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**Created:** [October 7, 2026, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/were-releasing-pplx-embed-v2-late-two-late-interaction-embedding-models-that-retrieve-text-images-and-pages-with-a-shared-embedding-space-for-cross-model-querying/6296 "2026-10-07T16:30:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![pplx-announcements](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c37758/32.png) [@pplx-announcements](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/pplx-announcements)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/were-releasing-pplx-embed-v2-late-two-late-interaction-embedding-models-that-retrieve-text-images-and-pages-with-a-shared-embedding-space-for-cross-model-querying/6296/1 "2026-10-07T16:30:34Z")

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Both models achieve frontier performance and are publicly available on Hugging Face.

> **[Multimodal embeddings beyond a single vector](https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/multimodal-embeddings-beyond-a-single-vector?utm_source=forum&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=multimodal-embeddings&utm_term=api-announcements)**
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> A new family of late-interaction models for text and image retrieval, with a shared embedding space across model sizes.

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