IT Home October 27 news, according to a report by tech media TechCrunch today, Meta’s head of artificial intelligence Rohit Patel has left the company. He had worked in AI research and development at Meta for eight years and served as head of Meta’s Superintelligence Lab.
According to the report, Patel has founded the company Ndoc, and he will develop a native AI office software, aimed at replacing Microsoft Office and Google Workspace.
This former Meta researcher hopes that Ndoc will not just be an AI tool layered on top of existing workflows, but rather will change the fragmented status quo in which people use various tools. For example, people often have to switch back and forth among software such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Tableau, and also constantly copy and paste content into ChatGPT.
Ndoc’s goal is to integrate all of the above workflows into a unified space, making it easy for everyone to work.
It is reported that Ndoc integrates three main modules in the same interface. “Stage” is used to display key content, such as slides, dashboards, simulation results, and mini-apps; “Narrative” is used to present analytical content, numbered citations, generated charts, and explanations of the reasons behind the data; “Model” is used to store the underlying datasets and Python scripts.
In actual use, users can upload datasets for Ndoc to analyze and, based on the results, write explanatory text. The software’s broader goal is to “redefine the document”; its documents can be exported as standalone “.ndoc.html” files and then opened in all browsers. Patel hopes to open-source this format so that other developers can also use it.
Patel is one of the many executives and researchers who have recently left Meta. Previously, Meta’s global affairs head Joel Kaplan, AI researcher Andrew Tulloch (IT Home note: Andrew Tulloch), and Emily Dalton Smith, the head responsible for AI products for work scenarios, have all left.