Meta Acquires AI Coding Startup Conductor

Meta has confirmed the acquisition of Conductor, an AI coding startup founded in 2024 whose core product launched publicly last summer. Conductor's platform lets software engineers deploy multiple AI coding agents — sourced from major labs including Anthropic and OpenAI — to work simultaneously on separate, compartmentalized parts of a project, with support for cloud, local, and mobile deployments. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Conductor founder and CEO Charlie Holtz announced the news on the company's blog and on X, saying he is looking forward to working with Alexandr Wang, Meta's chief AI officer, and Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta's Superintelligence Labs. Holtz noted that Conductor's core features will continue to function as normal until early next year, when the company plans to introduce something new for users. One exception: the company's cloud service will shut down on November 20, after which Conductor will begin deleting user cloud data.

The deal is part of Meta's broader effort to advance its AI capabilities. The company launched Muse Code, its own AI coding agent, in August, and its Muse agents have surpassed 10 million users. Meta has also completed other AI-related acquisitions over the past year, including Moltbook, the viral agent platform that drew wide attention. The acquisition was originally reported by Axios.