Rohit Patel
Rohit Patel is an artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur who spent about eight years building AI at MetaMetaMeta (Meta Platforms, Inc.) is a publicly listed American technology company, renamed from Facebook in 2021, that operates social communication, digital advertising, virtual reality, smart glasses and artificial intelligence businesses.Open the full entry, most recently as a director at Meta Superintelligence Labs, before leaving in October 2026 to launch NdocNdocNdoc is an AI office software brand combining data analysis, written reports and interactive presentation in one document.Open the full entry, an AI-native office suite.
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Key facts
March 2018Paper on Ticket Pricing
In March 2018, listing Meta Platforms and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management as his affiliations, he posted the paper “Indices for Dynamic Pricing in the Event Ticketing Industry” on SSRN, studying dynamic pricing indices for sports event tickets.[1]
2024Economics Paper and Explainer Article
In May 2024, signing as a member of Meta’s data science group, he co-wrote the paper “Costly Verification and Money Burning” with Princeton UniversityPrinceton UniversityPrinceton University is a private university and Ivy League member in Princeton, New Jersey. Chartered on October 22, 1746 as the College of New Jersey, it moved to Princeton in 1756 and adopted its present name in 1896. Undergraduate education leads to A.B. and B.S.E. degrees and emphasizes small-group discussion, independent research and residential college life. Graduate education spans the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. As of October 2026, Christopher L. Eisgruber was president. Its 2026–27 operating budget was $3.407 billion, including $342 million for undergraduate aid.Open the full entry economist Can Urgun.[2]
September–October 2025: Reinforcement Learning Paper and Commentary
In September 2025 he posted a sole-authored arXiv paper giving a self-contained, from-scratch exposition of key reinforcement learning algorithms for instruction tuning of models and outlining future directions with GRAPE; the paper was revised that October.[5]
In October 2025 he wrote a ForbesForbesForbes is an American business media brand that began with Forbes magazine, founded by B.C. Forbes in 1917. It is known for rankings such as the Forbes 400, the World’s Billionaires list and 30 Under 30, and operates Forbes.com, ForbesLive events and licensed editions in 81 countries. Since 2014 a majority stake has been held by the Hong Kong investment group Integrated Whale Media; a 2021 plan to list on the New York Stock Exchange through a special purpose acquisition company was terminated in 2022. It is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.Open the full entry Technology Council post, describing himself as founder and CEO of QuickAI and a director in Meta Superintelligence Labs; he argued that human intelligence is an interplay of fast intuition and slow reasoning and wrote, “We will find more success in automating tasks than automating jobs.”[6]
The same month he was among the co-authors of CRAG-MM, a multi-modal, multi-turn retrieval-augmented generation benchmark for wearable scenarios such as smart glasses.[7]
August 2026Modality Maturity Index
In August 2026 he was first author, with Dieuwke Hupkes and Sloan Strader, of the Modality Maturity Index, a benchmark for assessing the multimodal capabilities of omni models.[8]
October 2026Leaving Meta to Launch Ndoc
He said he had spent 7.8 years at Meta and wanted to work on his own projects.[9]
On October 27, 2026, his departure from Meta became public along with the launch of Ndoc, an AI-native alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Workspace; at Meta he had focused on reinforcement learning and on evaluating whether AI output can be trusted.[10]
Ndoc then had three staff and no outside funding, ran an enterprise pilot and a waitlist alpha, and planned a beta within weeks and a full launch the next year.[10]
Ndoc documents can be exported as a single “.ndoc.html” file that opens in a browser.[11]
Its file format specification is released under the Apache 2.0 license.[12]
He said Ndoc is built and fine-tuned on a mix of open-source models, which he said makes it cheaper to run than tools built on frontier models.[11]
Advisory Role: BayPine
He is a member of the Digital Advisory Board of the private equity firm BayPine.[13]
Sources
- Indices for Dynamic Pricing in the Event Ticketing Industry (opens in a new window)
- Costly Verification and Money Burning (opens in a new window)
- It happened on Medium in 2024 (opens in a new window)
- Rohit Patel (opens in a new window)
- Understanding Reinforcement Learning for Model Training, and future directions with GRAPE (opens in a new window)
- The Kind Of Intelligence We Are Building With AI, And What It Means To Be Human (opens in a new window)
- CRAG-MM: Multi-modal Multi-turn Comprehensive RAG Benchmark (opens in a new window)
- Modality Maturity Index: A benchmark for assessing multimodal capabilities of omni models (opens in a new window)
- Meta AI director Rohit Patel is leaving to build an AI-native office suite (opens in a new window)
- Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace (opens in a new window)
- Indian American ex-Meta AI director Rohit Patel launches startup to challenge Microsoft, Google (opens in a new window)
- ndoc.ai (opens in a new window)
- Our Team (opens in a new window)