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Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace

By Rebecca Bellan · TechCrunch · Tuesday, 27 October 2026 at 14:59 (2h ago) · Original article ↗

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.

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