ITHome On October 27, according to a report today by tech media TechCrunch, Meta's head of AI Rohit Patel has left the company. He had worked on AI research and development at Meta for eight years and served as head of Meta's Superintelligence Labs.
According to reports, Patel has founded a company called Ndoc, and he will develop a native AI office software suite,aims to replace 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 will instead change the fragmented status quo of how people use various tools. For example, people often have to switch back and forth between software like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Tableau, and 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.
Reportedly, Ndoc integrates three main modules in a single interface. "Stage" is used to present key content, such as slides, dashboards, simulation results and mini-applications; "Narrative" is used to present analysis content, numbered citations, generated charts, and explanations of the reasons behind the data; and "Model" is used to store the underlying datasets and Python scripts.
In actual use, users can upload datasets for Ndoc to analyze, and write explanatory text based on the results. The software's more ambitious goal is to "redefine documents"; its documents can be exported as standalone ".ndoc.html" files, which can then be opened in all browsers.Patel hopes to open-source this format, so that other developers can also use it.
Patel is one of many executives and researchers to have recently left Meta. Prior to this, Meta's head of global affairs Joel Kaplan, AI researcher Andrew Tulloch (IT之家 note: Andrew Tulloch), and Emily Dalton Smith, who was in charge of AI products for workplace scenarios, had all departed.