Skip to content
Tech News
← Back to articles

Apple to showcase nearly 60 studies and demos at upcoming AI conference

read original get Apple Developer Conference Kit → more articles
Why This Matters

Apple's extensive participation at the ICLR conference highlights its commitment to advancing AI and machine learning technologies, showcasing innovations like the SHARP model and on-device LLM inference. These developments signal significant progress in real-time 3D scene reconstruction and efficient AI processing directly on Apple devices, impacting both industry standards and consumer experiences.

Key Takeaways

Apple is one of the sponsors of this year’s International Conference on Learning Representations, running April 23 through 27 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where it will present dozens of studies. Here’s what to expect.

Full schedule includes demo sessions of the impressive SHARP model

Apple has announced the full schedule of the nearly 60 studies it will showcase at this year’s International Conference on Learning Representations.

One of Apple’s technical demos will showcase the impressive SHARP model, previously covered by 9to5Mac, which can reconstruct photorealistic 3D scenes from a single image in under a second. Apple will run the demo on an iPad Pro with the M5 chip.

New paper from Apple – Sharp Monocular View Synthesis in Less than a Second

Mescheder et al. @ Apple just released a very impressive paper (congrats! 🎉🥳). You give it an image and it generates a really great looking 3d Gaussian representation. Uses depth pro. It's really good.… pic.twitter.com/XSZCZA8iio — Tim Davison ᯅ (@timd_ca) December 16, 2025

Apple’s technical demos will take place at the Apple Booth (#204) during exhibition hours, and they will also include a showcase of “on-device LLM inference on a MacBook Pro with M5 Max using MLX.”

MLX is Apple’s open-source framework built specifically for AI inference on Apple silicon, and the tech demo will run “a quantized frontier coding model entirely locally within Xcode’s native development environment.”

To see the full list of posters, oral presentations, workshops, and technical demos Apple will present at ICLR 2026, including many covered by 9to5Mac, follow this link.

... continue reading