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Meta AI Director Launches Ndoc to Replace Office Suites
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- →Challenges the dominant 'AI plugin' strategy by proposing a unified document architecture instead.
- →Introduces transparency features allowing users to verify AI-generated code and data sources.
- →Represents a high-risk bet on open-source models for enterprise productivity against well-funded incumbents.
Rohit Patel, former director at Meta Superintelligence Labs, has launched Ndoc, an AI-native workspace designed to replace Microsoft Office and Google Workspace. The platform unifies presentations, data analysis, and code into a single document structure, allowing users to verify underlying Python scripts and datasets directly within the narrative. Patel, who previously focused on reinforcement learning and AI trustworthiness at Meta, built Ndoc using open-source models to reduce inference costs compared to frontier model alternatives. The startup is currently in an enterprise pilot phase with no external funding, aiming to launch a beta version soon while maintaining an open-source file format to avoid vendor lock-in.
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