Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to launch Ndoc, an AI Office rival
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Rohit Patel departed Meta Superintelligence Labs after eight years in AI evaluations and reinforcement learning to found Ndoc, pitched as an AI-native replacement for Microsoft Office and Google Workspace. Ndoc splits work into Stage, Narrative, and Model tabs, exposing the underlying Python scripts so users can verify generated figures.
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