Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace

Rohit Patel, a former director at Meta's Superintelligence Labs, has left the company after eight years to start a new venture, Ndoc, which aims to replace Microsoft Office Suite and Google Workspace with an AI-native unified workspace. Ndoc's design reflects Patel's background in reinforcement learning and evaluating AI trustworthiness, with three components: the Stage tab for presentations, the Narrative tab for analyses, and the Model tab for datasets and Python scripts. Users can access the underlying code and ask the AI to explain the scripts, even if they're not familiar with Python. This move follows a string of high-profile departures from Meta, including Joel Kaplan, Andrew Tulloch, and Emily Dalton Smith.