THE CRUNCH
Meta has acquired Conductor, an AI coding startup that lets users spin up software projects by deploying multiple agents into parallel workspaces. The deal was first reported by Axios, and Conductor's founder and CEO Charlie Holtz announced the acquisition on Wednesday, writing that the company is joining Meta with "big, crazy plans for the next interface". Meta confirmed the acquisition but declined to give further details about the deal.
Conductor was founded in 2024 and launched its core product only last summer. Its agentic teams, which can run in the cloud, locally or via a user's phone, help software engineers work on separate, compartmentalised parts of a project in concert. Notably, the agents it deploys are not built in-house but come from major labs including Anthropic and OpenAI.
There are immediate changes for users. Holtz said Conductor's core features will keep working as before until early next year, but the cloud service will shut down on 20 November, after which the company will begin deleting user cloud data. He also teased "something new" for customers by early next year, and said he is looking forward to working with Meta's chief AI officer Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman, head of product at the company's Superintelligence Labs.
The acquisition fits Meta's broader push to catch up in AI services. In August it launched Muse Code, its own coding agent, and it recently reported that its Muse agents service had surpassed 10 million users. The company has also made several AI-related acquisitions over the past year, including the viral agent platform Moltbook.