GoKawiilEx-Meta AI director Rohit Patel launches Ndoc to rival Office and Workspace
Rohit Patel, who spent eight years at Meta and most recently served as a director at Meta Superintelligence Labs, has left the company to start Ndoc, an AI-native workspace meant to replace Microsoft Office and Google Workspace. The product combines presentation, analysis, and underlying data/code into three linked views called Stage, Narrative, and Model, letting users inspect and verify the scripts behind AI-generated documents.
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Patel's departure adds to a string of recent high-profile exits from Meta's AI division, including Joel Kaplan, Andrew Tulloch, and Emily Dalton Smith, which could suggest growing friction or shifting priorities within Meta's AI ambitions. Ndoc's emphasis on transparency and verifiability of AI-generated work reflects a broader industry concern about trust in AI outputs, and its bid to unify fragmented productivity tools positions it as a direct challenge to entrenched incumbents like Microsoft and Google.
- Rohit Patel left Meta after eight years to found Ndoc, an AI-native alternative to Office and Workspace.
- Ndoc organizes work into three linked views—Stage, Narrative, and Model—to unify presentations, analysis, and underlying code/data.
- Patel's exit follows other notable departures from Meta's AI organization, including Joel Kaplan, Andrew Tulloch, and Emily Dalton Smith.
Source: techcrunch.com — Rebecca Bellan, 2026-10-27
Published there as: “Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace”
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