Perplexity Releases pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview: A Contextual Embedding Model That Retrieves Answers and Their Supporting Evidence

- Perplexity’s new embedding model finally understands that context isn’t optional. It retrieves answers *with* their evidence, unlike the rest of this industry which prefers to retrieve your funds and vanish. No more "gold passage" cherry-picking; it uses soft targets and teacher distillation to actually verify claims. Deployable via Hugging Face under MIT, so you can self-host without begging for API access. If only DeFi projects used this level of transparency instead of rebranding again to hide their rug pulls. Now we have a tool to fact-check the moonboys before they drain the liquidity pool.