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Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark, a 280M-parameter speculative decoding drafter for its LFM2.5-VL-3B vision-language model. The company claims decode speedups up to 3.13x on Apple silicon and 2.66x on H100 GPUs, with day-one support for llama.cpp, MLX-VLM, and SGLang.

Ollama v0.32.7 adds support for Muse Glimmer, a 30B-parameter multimodal model that Meta describes as the first release from its new Meta Superintelligence Labs division. Initial support runs through Ollama's MLX engine on Apple Silicon, with NVIDIA and AMD support promised in the coming days.

Apple will present nearly 60 research studies and technical demonstrations at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) running April 23-27 in Rio de Janeiro. Demos include the SHARP model that reconstructs photorealistic 3D scenes from a single image in under one second, running on iPad Pro with M5 chip.