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  "id": 10510372,
  "title": "Meta Taps MongoDB CEO Desai to Drive Enterprise AI Push",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/meta-taps-mongodb-ceo-desai-to-drive-enterprise-ai-push-10510372",
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  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-28T19:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Slashdot",
    "slug": "slashdot",
    "url": "https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/09/28/1743253/meta-taps-mongodb-ceo-desai-to-drive-enterprise-ai-push"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Meta has appointed Chirantan Desai, the CEO of MongoDB, to spearhead the company's new enterprise AI business. This initiative aims to transform Meta's models, agents, and tools into products that businesses can deploy for their own needs. Desai will report directly to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, occupying the newly created position of chief enterprise platform officer. He will focus on developing Meta's AI stack into products and services that can be used by other companies.\n\nDesai previously led product and engineering at Cloudflare and spent eight years at ServiceNow, serving as both president and chief operating officer. The hiring of Desai comes after MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria stepped down to search for a permanent replacement. Despite the departure, analysts believe MongoDB remains strategically well-positioned and view the share-price reaction as overblown, according to brokerage Piper Sandler.",
  "summary": "Meta has hired MongoDB CEO Chirantan \"CJ\" Desai to lead a new enterprise AI business aimed at turning Meta's models, agents and tools into products companies can deploy themselves. Reuters reports: Desai, a veteran technology executive, took over the role from Dev Ittycheria. MongoDB has appointed Ittycheria as interim CEO as it searches for a permanent replacement. \"While the departure is…",
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        "title": "Mark Zuckerberg unveils Meta Enterprise Platform, its \"next major pillar of our business\" to deploy AI tools, and appoints MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai to run it (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)",
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        "title": "Meta taps MongoDB CEO Desai to drive enterprise AI push",
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        "outlet": "Hindustan Times - World News",
        "title": "Meta ropes in MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai to lead new AI platform for enterprise customers",
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        "outlet": "TechCrunch",
        "title": "Meta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative",
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        "published": "2026-09-28T16:52:38.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "The New Stack",
        "title": "Meta hired MongoDB’s CEO to build its enterprise AI business — but Llama is missing",
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        "title": "Meta hires MongoDB CEO Desai to spearhead enterprise AI business",
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