Meta has acquired Conductor, a two-year-old startup that lets software engineers run several AI coding agents at once across parallel workspaces, the company confirmed Wednesday after Axios first reported the deal. Meta did not disclose terms and declined to comment further.
Conductor, founded in 2024 by Charlie Holtz, launched its core product in the summer of 2025. Rather than building its own models, it orchestrated agents from outside labs — Anthropic and OpenAI among them — letting a single engineer deploy multiple AI "teammates" to work on different parts of a project simultaneously, running in the cloud, locally, or from a phone. In a post on the company's blog, Holtz said the team is joining Meta with "big, crazy plans" for what he called the next interface, and teased something new for customers by early next year. He said he was looking forward to working with Alexandr Wang, Meta's chief AI officer, and Nat Friedman, who heads product at Meta Superintelligence Labs, praising the lab's concentration of talent.
Catching up in coding tools
The acquisition is the latest sign of how aggressively Meta is trying to close a perceived gap in AI-assisted software development. The company launched its own coding agent, Muse Code, in August, and its broader Muse family of agents has reportedly passed 10 million users. Conductor adds to a run of recent AI acquisitions for Meta, including Moltbook, the viral AI agent social network it picked up earlier this year. The moves come as competition in AI coding tools has intensified across the industry, with startups like Cognition — maker of the Devin agent — and Cursor, along with incumbents such as GitHub Copilot and OpenAI's Codex, all racing to own how professional developers work with AI day to day.
For Conductor's existing users, the transition carries a deadline: core features will keep working as before until early next year, but the startup's cloud service will shut down on November 20, after which the company will begin deleting user cloud data. That timeline suggests Meta plans to fold Conductor's technology into its own infrastructure rather than keep it running independently — a familiar pattern for "acqui-hire"-style AI deals, where the team and the technology matter more than preserving the original product. What exactly Meta builds with it won't be clear until Holtz's promised announcement, expected by early 2027.
