Meta to buy AI coding startup Conductor: report

Meta has acquired Conductor, an AI coding startup, according to reports from Axios and the company's own blog. Conductor's founder and CEO, Charlie Holtz, announced the acquisition on Wednesday, expressing excitement about the future plans for the startup. Holtz also revealed that he would be working with Meta's chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, and Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta's Superintelligence Labs.

Meta confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch, but did not provide further details. Conductor, founded in 2024, launched its core product just last summer. The startup's agentic teams, which can be deployed in various environments, are designed to assist software engineers in working on separate parts of a project concurrently. Conductor's agents are not developed in-house but come from major AI labs like Anthropic and OpenAI.

Until early next year, Conductor's core features will continue to function as usual; however, the company's cloud service will shut down on November 20, leading to the deletion of user cloud data thereafter. Meta, which has been lagging behind in AI services, has been making efforts to catch up in recent months. In August, Meta launched Muse Code, its own coding agent, and recently reported that the Muse agents have gained significant traction with over 10 million users.

The company has also made several AI-related acquisitions over the past year, with Moltbook, a viral agent platform, drawing considerable attention.