Exclusive: Meta director Rohit Patel departs after 8 years to take on Microsoft Office Suite
Rohit Patel is departing Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. His startup, Ndoc, aims to take on Microsoft Office Suite.
TL;DR
- Rohit Patel, former director at Meta Superintelligence Labs, has launched a new startup called Ndoc.
- Ndoc is positioned as an AI-native replacement for Microsoft Office Suite and Google Workspace.
- The platform unifies presentations (Stage), analysis (Narrative), and underlying data/scripts (Model) in a single workspace.
- Users can access and verify the AI-generated content, including Python scripts used to create documents.
- Ndoc is built using a mixture of open-source models and aims to be more cost-effective than alternatives.
- Patel plans to open-source the proprietary file format, '.ndoc.html', to encourage broader developer adoption.
- Ndoc is currently in an enterprise pilot and opening an alpha version to a limited waitlist, with a beta planned soon and a full launch next year.
- Patel emphasizes rapid execution over a perfect plan, moving at AI's pace rather than human pace.