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AI · perplexity.ai · Friday, 11 September 2026

A 190-million-document test for web retrievers

A retriever can look strong on a small benchmark simply because the hard negatives never made it into the room. Q2D-Web scales evaluation to 190 million web documents and 69,721 agent-reformulated queries across ten languages, then checks relevance three ways: citations, production rankings, and additional LLM judgments. That makes leaderboard gains harder to fake and more relevant to the first stage of agentic RAG.

Read the source: perplexity.ai ↗In the 11 September issue →