Perplexity says its API stack now spans agent orchestration, real-time search, embeddings, and an upcoming sandbox under one platform. The update packages more of the agent runtime into Perplexity infrastructure instead of leaving developers to assemble separate providers.
Google AI Developers says Gemini Embedding 2 is now in preview via the Gemini API and Vertex AI. Google describes it as its first fully multimodal embedding model on the Gemini architecture and its most capable embedding model so far.
Perplexity announced on February 26, 2026 that `pplx-embed-v1` and `pplx-embed-context-v1` are now available in 0.6B and 4B variants. The company positions the release as retrieval-first infrastructure with quantized embeddings and benchmark-focused performance claims.