Perplexity's New Late-Interaction Models Meet Qdrant's 21x Vector Compression

A number in a financial report needs its row, column, and unit to mean anything. A chart needs its labels. When you build search over PDFs, that context is part of what you want to retrieve. Perplexity released pplx-embed-v2-late, two late interaction models that search document pages as images. The model embeds the page image, including its tables, charts, and layout. You can skip the optical character recognition (OCR) step and search the page as it appears.