Meta AI director Rohit Patel exits to take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace
RebeccaBellan · x · 2026-10-27
TechCrunch exclusive: Meta AI director Rohit Patel is leaving to build a product challenging Microsoft Office and Google Workspace. His bar: "I'm not going to release anything I don't love using. I have very optimized AI workflows — if I keep going back to them, I haven't built a good enough tool."
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