What happened
Meta has bought Conductor, a young startup whose software lets engineers launch several AI coding agents that work side by side in separate workspaces on a single project, TechCrunch reported. Meta confirmed the deal to the publication but declined to share terms or any other details, and Conductor announced the acquisition in a post on its blog.
Founder and CEO Charlie Holtz wrote on Wednesday that the company has ambitious plans for a new kind of interface and expects to offer customers something new early next year. In a post on X, Holtz said he was keen to collaborate with Meta's chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, as well as with Nat Friedman, the product lead at Meta Superintelligence Labs, and argued that the lab has more concentrated talent than its rivals.
Holtz said Conductor's main features will keep running as they do now until early next year. The one exception is its cloud service, which is scheduled to shut down on November 20. Once that happens, the company will start deleting data that users had stored in the cloud, so customers relying on the hosted version face a firm cutoff.
Context
Conductor was founded in 2024 and released its core product only last summer. Its agent teams can run in the cloud, locally or from a phone. Meta, which had trailed rivals in AI services, has been working to close the gap: it introduced its Muse Code coding agent in August, said its Muse agents have passed 10 million users, and has made several AI acquisitions in the past year, including the agent platform Moltbook.
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