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PERPLEXITY · FIELD VERIFIED

pplx-embed-v2-late-9b

Primary sources last checked on 11 Oct 2026. Verification freshness is tracked separately from factual change, and unknown values remain explicit rather than inferred.

NotablePerplexity's larger multimodal late-interaction retrieval checkpoint; shared retrieval representation with the compact 0.6B family is a publisher claim, not independently reproduced by OMW.Curation method →
Source repository ↗Compare this model →History & diff →Machine-readable JSON ↗Field-verified 2026-10-11
Evidence statusSource-first verified
Last verified11 Oct 2026
Full field verification11 Oct 2026
Source policy →Methodology →

FRESHNESS & VERIFICATION

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Last factual update
No change observed
Baseline first observed 11 Oct 2026; no later factual change observed
Repository created
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CONFLICT INTELLIGENCE

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No active comparable-source conflict detectedThis is not a claim that every possible source agrees; it covers the comparable fields currently checked.
Publisher claims2
Source observed4
OMW derived3
OMW measured0
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MODEL INTELLIGENCE · SOURCE-FIRST

What is pplx-embed-v2-late-9b?

OMW evidence review11 Oct 2026

Open Model Weights records pplx-embed-v2-late-9b as a 8.3927B-parameter text + image → token embeddings open-weight model in the pplx-embed-v2-late family, with Perplexity listed as the developer. The checked source repository provides 2 recognized weight artifacts, format evidence for Safetensors and a verified context window of 262,144 tokens. Values that are not evidenced in the checked sources remain explicitly undisclosed or unknown.

The repository declares mit. Commercial use allowed under mit conditions. Open Model Weights reports the checked license evidence and classification; this is not legal advice.

No base model is declared in the checked standard lineage metadata, so Open Model Weights does not infer one. Training recipe status: training-described-in-model-card; data disclosure status: not-disclosed-in-standard-metadata-or-obvious-model-card-section.

Source repository ↗Model card ↗Configuration ↗

DEPLOYMENT PROFILE

Weight memory, without pretending it is a deployment guarantee.

These bars visualize weight-only decimal-GB estimates. They exclude KV cache, activations, runtime overhead, optimizer state and sharding.

WEIGHT-ONLY MEMORY
BF16 / FP16~16.8 GB
FP8 / INT8~8.4 GB
INT4~4.2 GB
FIELD EVIDENCE MAP
WeightsVerified
LicenseVerified
Commercial useAllowed
ContextVerified
FormatsVerified
LineageNot declared
Training recipeTraining described in model card
Training dataNot disclosed in standard metadata or obvious model card section
RuntimeSource-derived · not runtime-tested

LICENSE & USE

mit

Commercial use allowed under mit conditions

Declared licensemit
ClassificationAllowed
VerificationDeclared metadata checked

This section summarizes the checked repository evidence. It is not legal advice.

LINEAGE & PROVENANCE

What the checked sources disclose — and what they do not.

Open Model Weights does not infer a hidden base model or training corpus when the checked sources do not declare one.

LINEAGE
BASE / PARENTNot declared in model-card metadataUnknown
not inferred
CURRENT RECORDpplx-embed-v2-late-9bpplx-embed-v2-late
TRAINING DISCLOSURE
Training recipeTraining described in model card
Training dataNot disclosed in standard metadata or obvious model card section
Familypplx-embed-v2-late

RUNTIME SIGNALS

Compatibility claims stay attached to their evidence level.

Declared and model-card-mentioned runtimes are discovery signals. They are not treated as Open Model Weights runtime tests unless explicitly measured.

Declaredsentence-transformers
MentionedTransformers
OMW runtime testNot performed

EVIDENCE TRAIL

Sources and observed history.

This is where the article remains auditable: source links on one side, the registry's observed change history on the other.

PrimaryModel Repositoryhttps://huggingface.co/perplexity-ai/pplx-embed-v2-late-9bInspect source ↗PrimaryModel Apihttps://huggingface.co/api/models/perplexity-ai/pplx-embed-v2-late-9bInspect source ↗PrimaryModel Cardhttps://huggingface.co/perplexity-ai/pplx-embed-v2-late-9b/blob/main/README.mdInspect source ↗PrimaryConfighttps://huggingface.co/perplexity-ai/pplx-embed-v2-late-9b/blob/main/config.jsonInspect source ↗
Field-by-field verification

Checked Hugging Face API metadata, exact repository file list, model card and config when accessible.

01 · WEIGHTS

Exact repository artifacts

Weightsverified-available
Accesspublic
Repositoryperplexity-ai/pplx-embed-v2-late-9b
Recognized weight files2
Show all 2 exact weight files
HF API file listing ↗

02 · LICENSE

License & commercial use

Declared licensemit
License IDmit
Commercial useCommercial use allowed under mit conditions
Repository license filesNone observed

Classification describes the checked license terms; it is not legal advice.

03 · HARDWARE

Weight-memory estimate

BF16 / FP16~16.8 GB
FP8 / INT8~8.4 GB
INT4~4.2 GB

Weight-only decimal-GB estimate from total parameter count; excludes KV cache, activations, runtime overhead, optimizer state and sharding.

04 · FORMATS

Formats & precision evidence

Safetensors
BF16: not observedFP16: not observedFP8: not observedINT8: not observedINT4: not observedGGUF: not observed

“Not observed” means no matching repository artifact/name/dtype signal was found; it does not prove no third-party conversion exists.

05 · LINEAGE

Base model & family

Familypplx-embed-v2-late
Variant9B
Declared base modelNot declared in model-card metadata
RelationNot declared

06 · TRAINING ASSETS

Recipe & data disclosure

Training recipetraining-described-in-model-card
Data disclosurenot-disclosed-in-standard-metadata-or-obvious-model-card-section
EvaluationsNot classified by automated verifier
Intermediate checkpointsNot classified by automated verifier

07 · RUNTIME SUPPORT

Declared, mentioned and externally evidenced runtimes

Declared librarysentence-transformers
Declared/taggedsentence-transformers
Mentioned in model cardTransformers
Artifact signalsNone
External primary runtime evidenceNone
Tested by Open Model WeightsNo — source-derived support only

Open Model Weights separates model-repository evidence from external runtime-release evidence. An external support statement does not change the official model repository's weight formats and does not imply an Open Model Weights inference benchmark.

08 · SOURCES

Field evidence

Primary / declared sources4
Repository revision0f49a9977fe0
Source policyHow evidence is classified →
model_repositoryhttps://huggingface.co/perplexity-ai/pplx-embed-v2-late-9b
model_apihttps://huggingface.co/api/models/perplexity-ai/pplx-embed-v2-late-9b
model_cardhttps://huggingface.co/perplexity-ai/pplx-embed-v2-late-9b/blob/main/README.md
confighttps://huggingface.co/perplexity-ai/pplx-embed-v2-late-9b/blob/main/config.json

09 · VERIFICATION HISTORY

Checked, not assumed

Field-by-field verification

Checked Hugging Face API metadata, exact repository file list, model card and config when accessible.

licenseverified
commercial useclassified
contextverified
weight filesverified
formatsverified
base modelnot-declared
training recipetraining-described-in-model-card
data disclosurenot-disclosed-in-standard-metadata-or-obvious-model-card-section
runtime supportsource-derived-not-runtime-tested