Salesforce
corporateSalesforce AI Research, led by Chief Scientist Silvio Savarese (formerly Stanford CS), produces open research spanning vision-language, code generation, time series, and protein engineering. The lab's work feeds into Salesforce's Agentforce enterprise AI platform ($1.4B ARR, 12K customers).
Key research includes BLIP-2 (2023, vision-language bootstrapping, ICML 2023), CodeGen (2022, code generation up to 16B), Moirai (2024, time series foundation model, #1 on GIFT-Eval, ICML 2024), and ProGen (protein generation, Nature Biotechnology 2023). The LAVIS library (11K stars) provides a unified framework for vision-language research.
People
- Silvio Savarese Google Scholar — EVP & Chief Scientist (formerly Stanford CS (Associate Professor); PhD Caltech)
- Junnan Li Google Scholar — Research Director
- Caiming Xiong Google ScholarOpenReview — Former SVP, AI Research (departed early 2026)
News
- 2024-10-29 Agentforce Platform Launched for Enterprise AI Agents — Salesforce
- 2024-09-05 Silvio Savarese Named to TIME 100 Most Influential in AI — Salesforce