The deal will also give CBA access to H20's rich talent pool of data scientists, engineers and business users, including 'Kaggle Grandmasters' – a select community of accomplished machine learning engineers and product specialists – "that will work full time on developing new AI solutions within the bank". CBA chief executive Matt Comyn said the new deal would give CBA the opportunity to work with "some of the world's best data scientists", as well as attract "top talent wanting to work with the best tools on the biggest data sets on the most interesting problems". "We see broad application for AI and machine learning technology right across our business – in operational processes, protecting customers from fraud, lending decisions, and risk management," he added. According to H2O, the world's top 20 'Kaggle Grandmasters' (spruiked as "a community of best-in-the-world machine learning practitioners and data scientists") are employed by H2O.