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Alexander Kirillov

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Member of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab

Kirillov co-created Segment Anything, which lets users isolate almost any object in an image with a click or prompt, and helped define panoptic segmentation, a unified way to label every pixel and object in a scene. After leading multimodal work on GPT-4o at OpenAI, he joined Thinking Machines Lab.

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Background

Current role
Member of Technical Staff Jan 2025-present
Previously
2023-2025Member of Technical Staff,
2018-2023Senior Staff Research Scientist,
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 8, 2026

Citation Trend

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Jun 15, '2679,44766,68553,922Aug 25, '25Jun 15, '26
79,447citations as of Jun 15, '26+25,525 since Aug 25, '25
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