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Voyage AI launches rerank-2.5 and rerank-2.5-lite

rerank-2.5 and rerank-2.5-lite launched — reranking that follows natural-language instructions, 32K context

Why it matters

Rerankers change from fixed functions into components steered by instructions. Comparison figures are the vendor's own measurements

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Officialblog.voyageai.comhttps://blog.voyageai.com/2025/08/11/rerank-2-5/

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