Alexander Kirillov
First author of Segment Anything; works on multimodal models at Thinking Machines; formerly OpenAI and FAIR
- Works on multimodal AI models, Thinking Machines Lab1
Alexander Kirillov works on multimodal AI models at Thinking Machines. Before that, Kirillov led the multimodal research group at OpenAI, working on Advanced Voice Mode and GPT-4o, and was a research scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR), where Kirillov worked on Segment Anything. Kirillov is first author of the 2023 Segment Anything paper, whose repository releases the model under the Apache 2.0 license, is listed in the citation entry for the Detectron2 library, and is a co-author of DETR (End-to-End Object Detection with Transformers).12345
Work
Segment Anything (SAM)Open weights
First author of the Segment Anything paper (2023); the original repository lists Kirillov first among its authors and releases the model under the Apache 2.0 license.23
Detectron2 (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Listed among the authors in the citation entry of Detectron2, FAIR's detection and segmentation library released under the Apache 2.0 license.4
DETR (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Co-author of "End-to-End Object Detection with Transformers" (2020); the DETR repository is released under the Apache 2.0 license.56
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Led the multimodal research group (Advanced Voice Mode and GPT-4o), OpenAI1
- Research scientist, FAIR, Meta (Facebook AI Research)1
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