Research

- Oct 21, 2026A good teacher meets the student where they areA new self-distillation method that jointly trains teacher and student to improve model performance and training efficiency on complex reasoning and agentic tasks.
- Oct 12, 2026Building shared workspaces for people and agentsHow Perplexity Projects keep long-running work persistent, concurrent, and traceable.
- Oct 7, 2026Multimodal embeddings beyond a single vectorA new family of late-interaction models for text and image retrieval, with a shared embedding space across model sizes.
All publications
- BrowseSafe++: Building stronger defenses against real-world prompt injection
- A good teacher meets the student where they are
- Building shared workspaces for people and agents
- Multimodal embeddings beyond a single vector
- Contextual embedding beyond the gold passage
- Photon: Building a retrieval and ranking engine from scratch
- Escaping SPACE: Part I
- Learning from real-world experience
- CobbleDB: Rebuilding AI search storage for lower latency and cost
- Q2D-Web: Evaluating first-stage retrievers at scale