Naspers-owned Prosus today announced the launch of PlusOne.io, a new all-in-one AI team member that is accelerating the performance of its global network of portfolio businesses, across fintech, food delivery, classifieds and edtech.
PlusOne is the signature tool of Prosus AI Lab and is already delivering a unique and differentiated advantage for our network of over 800 data scientists working across the 80+ companies within our Ecommerce portfolio.
While many companies are just embarking on their AI journey, we’re building on a strong foundation, Prosus said.
“We’ve dedicated over five years to developing our Prosus AI Lab, an industry-leading applied AI centre that systematically shares best practices and accelerates experimentation of emerging technologies, providing a unique asset for the companies we invest in.”
PlusOne is a Generative AI tool that is integrated directly into a company’s knowledge base, offering enhanced functionality within the existing tools used by teams, such as Slack.
Leveraging the capabilities of more than 10 diverse Generative AI model types and building on our early experimentation with multiple foundational models, PlusOne uses proprietary and third party models to assist with a wide range of tasks with a high level of accuracy and relevance – from compiling reports and translating documents to explaining and modifying code.
Prosus said PlusOne is designed for high levels of data privacy and features enterprise-level security, maintaining control and ownership of the company’s data submitted to and generated by PlusOne.
PlusOne also integrates easily with your internal company knowledge bases, such as Confluence or GDrive, code repositories such as BitBucket or Github, as well as many other internal tools.
In the near future, PlusOne will allow teams to create their own custom workflows to automate repetitive tasks at scale, and to perform tasks such as advanced data analysis.
Over the past 12 months, PlusOne has been adopted by over 25 companies across the Prosus Group (the full list is available here), and has thousands of monthly active users, many of them using it more than a dozen times a day.
“After the initial roll-out, we have seen organic adoption across hundreds of teams in our portfolio. We are proud to see PlusOne not only meeting but exceeding expectations. This tool has become instrumental for teamwork, but also to discover and rapidly test AI use cases,” Euro Beinat, Global Head of AI and Data Science at Prosus and Naspers said.
“We have seen several companies, such as iFood or Brainly, graduate these use cases into their products and release them to their customers. PlusOne not only improves team efficiency, it also unlocks discovery of business opportunities.“
Prosus envisions a future where its investment in AI will continue to improve our performance, helping its network of companies, and their combined base of 2 billion users in their daily lives, driving efficiency and growth for the businesses.
Prosus AI Lab connects a global community of over 800 AI practitioners.
