“We’ll see more innovation in the next 2 years than we have in the last 10 years, all driven by AI.” The Xero founder says: “We’re getting a massive hit on the R&D we’ve done around machine learning and AI. We think it’s going to be transformational for the industry. “If you capture information from the bank statement and the invoice and the bills that are flying through, you can actually programme things to do a whole lot of work for you and you’re just checking and making fixes, which trains the machine.”

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