About Prabhu Gopal.
Prabhu Gopal is a founder and an AI researcher. He started PhobosQ at 19 and exited it, then founded Laurent & Lys and Bohrin. He grew up in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, around land his family has farmed for many years, which is where the idea for Laurent & Lys came from.
Who is Prabhu Gopal?
Prabhu Gopal is a founder and an AI researcher. He has loved space for as long as he can remember, and most of what he works on comes back to it. He started PhobosQ at 19 and exited it. He now runs Laurent & Lys, which is about organic food, and Bohrin, which works on safe AI for robots.
What does Prabhu Gopal do?
Prabhu Gopal runs Laurent & Lys, which brings together a community who grow organic food and the people who want to eat it, and which builds and runs organic farms on land people already own. He also works on Bohrin, which works on safe AI for robots, starting with the data they learn from.
What is Bohrin?
Bohrin is the company Prabhu Gopal founded to work on safe AI for robots. Robots learn from the data they are given, and bad data makes them act the wrong way. Bohrin works on fixing that, so robots can one day be trusted to go where people cannot.
What is Laurent & Lys?
Laurent & Lys is the company Prabhu Gopal founded around food and the land it comes from. It brings together a community who grow organic food and the people who want to eat it, and it builds and runs organic farms on land people already own.
What is PhobosQ?
PhobosQ is the first company Prabhu Gopal founded, at 19. It built AI infrastructure for enterprise customers, after he found that 82% of enterprise AI prototypes never reach production. It shipped Sirus, an AI data scientist, along with document intelligence and call analytics systems. He has since exited the company.
Why does Prabhu Gopal work on both food and robots?
Both come back to the same thing. Prabhu Gopal thinks food is the quiet reason people live long, healthy lives, and that Earth is the only place we know of that holds life at all. Laurent & Lys is the food half. Bohrin is the other half: robots that can be trusted to go where people cannot.
What is Prabhu Gopal known for?
Prabhu Gopal is known for starting young. At 17 he shipped a computer vision system for a company in Japan, running on Coral TPU and NVIDIA Jetson hardware. At 19 he founded PhobosQ, built AI infrastructure for enterprise customers, and exited it. He now runs Laurent & Lys and Bohrin.
Where is Prabhu Gopal based?
Prabhu Gopal is based in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. He grew up there with his parents and grandparents, around land his family has farmed for many years, which is where the idea for Laurent & Lys came from. The company operates in India, on people's own land.
How can you contact Prabhu Gopal?
Prabhu Gopal can be reached by email at founder@laurentandlys.com. He is also on X as @prabhugopal_ and on LinkedIn. He writes essays occasionally, which are published on his own site at prabhugopal.com/writing.