Prosus Group analyzes AI agents across 3 subsectors: those that focus on: “general tasks” like workplace productivity; “function-specific” agents that perform a certain job like sales development representatives; and “industry-specific” agents, which aim to automate various tasks across a given profession.
“You are training them or telling them to do things that are fairly well-defined like you would for a job description. Our experience is that that's where there will be a lot of excitement because that's where you can get them to work pretty well.”