Meta AI director leaves to build an Office rival

Rohit Patel, a director in Meta’s AI organization, is leaving after eight years to focus on Ndoc, a new workplace-software startup. Ndoc is positioning itself against Microsoft Office and Google Workspace, the widely used suites for creating documents, spreadsheets and presentations. That puts Patel’s venture in a market where workplace tools are deeply embedded in day-to-day operations, and where teams have built workflows over many years around familiar software and connections to other business systems inside and outside their companies.