Paras Chopra

Long before building India’s AI future, Paras Chopra was writing neural networks in Visual Basic, and today he’s the founder of Lossfunk, a Bengaluru‑based independent AI research lab. After bootstrapping Wingify (the team behind VWO) to a $200million exit in 2024, he set his sights on founding a lab focused on efficient, high-quality AI reasoning and large‑language‑model alignment.

Under Chopra’s leadership, Lossfunk has already made waves in AI research. In early 2025, the team introduced IPO (Implicit Preference Optimisation), a novel approach to aligning LLMs without requiring external feedback, and demonstrated that it matched or exceeded state-of-the-art reward models.

That added to his list of bold decisions, like not allowing his team to work with Indian customers who don’t pay, showing how much he values their time and effort.

Chopra has also begun assembling a technical core for a lab that aims to contribute to India’s national AI strategy, experimenting with methods like reinforcement learning, pruning, distillation, and neurosymbolic systems to maximise efficiency.

A true independent thinker, he believes “creativity is born out of constraints,” emphasising that limited compute should not limit ambition. From bootstrapped SaaS to foundational AI research, his journey exemplifies India’s growing potential to lead in thoughtful, impactful AI innovation.