Perplexity's 0.6B contextual embedder shares an embeddingA list of numbers representing a piece of text's meaning, so that similar meanings end up numerically close and can be searched.Full definition → space with the 9B model, so you can index with one and query with the other. Using encode instead of encode_queries silently degrades retrieval.
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multimodal — A model that works with more than text — reading images, audio, or video, and sometimes generating them too.
embedding — A list of numbers representing a piece of text's meaning, so that similar meanings end up numerically close and can be searched.
context window — The maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.
