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

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/meta-ai-director-rohit-patel-leaves-to-take-on-microsoft-office-and-google-workspace/
- Published: 2026-10-27T14:59:09+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-27T15:17:53+00:00
- Original publisher: TechCrunch
- Original article: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/27/meta-ai-director-rohit-patel-leaves-to-take-on-microsoft-office-and-google-workspace/
- Topics: AI, Art, Business, Celebrity, Companies, Culture, Entertainment, Space, Technology

## Key points

- Rohit Patel has left Meta after eight years.
- His startup Ndoc aims to unify AI-powered office work.
- Its planned open file format is designed to be inspectable and shareable.

## Summary

After eight years at Meta, AI director Rohit Patel has left to launch Ndoc, a startup aiming to bring office work into one AI-native workspace. The move matters because Ndoc is designed to compete with Microsoft Office and Google Workspace by combining analysis, documents and presentations while making the AI’s work easier to inspect.

Ndoc has three connected areas: Stage for presentations and dashboards, Narrative for analysis and explanations, and Model for datasets and Python scripts. Users can upload data, request analysis and add context such as audience and tone; Patel says the system remembers information about the user, document, team and company. It uses a mix of open-source models, and Patel plans to open-source its browser-readable “.ndoc.html” file format.

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