Meta has acquired Conductor, an AI coding startup that allows users to launch software projects by deploying multiple agents into parallel workspaces.
The news was originally reported by Axios, and Conductor shared news of the acquisition on its blog.
“We have big news: Conductor is joining Meta,” the startup’s founder and CEO Charlie Holtz wrote on Wednesday. “We have some big, crazy plans for the next interface,” he added, teasing that the company would have “something new” available for customers to use by “early next year.”
Holtz also said he looks forward to working with Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexander Wang, and Nat Friedman, head of product for the company’s Superintelligence Institute, on X. “They are completely exhausted and I believe MSL has the highest talent density of all the institutes,” he added.
Meta confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch, but declined to comment further or provide further details about the deal.
Conductor was founded in 2024 and just launched its flagship product last summer. The company’s agent teams can be deployed in the cloud, locally, or via a user’s phone, and are designed to enable software engineers to work collaboratively on discrete pieces of a project. The agents the platform deploys are not developed in-house, but come from leading labs like Anthropic and OpenAI.
Holtz said that until early next year, Conductor’s core functionality will continue to work as before. The exception is Conductor’s cloud service, which will shut down on November 20, after which the company will begin deleting users’ cloud data.
Meta has traditionally lagged behind in AI services, but has spent the last few months trying to catch up. In August, the company launched its own coding agency, Muse Code. Meanwhile, the company’s recently launched Muse agent has seen significant adoption, with the company recently reporting that the service has surpassed 10 million users. The company has also made a number of AI-related acquisitions over the past year, including headline-grabbing viral agent platform Moltbook.
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