Meta AI director Rohit Patel exits after 8 years to take on Office and Workspace with Ndoc
TechCrunch AI · rss · 2026-10-27
TechCrunch has exclusively learned that Rohit Patel, Meta's AI director who spent eight years on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, is leaving to found Ndoc, a startup aiming to take on Microsoft Office Suite and Google Workspace — another veteran Meta AI departure targeting the giants' office-suite turf.
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