Meta acquires Conductor to run parallel AI coding agents
Meta has acquired Conductor, a startup that lets software engineers run multiple AI coding agents in parallel, each working in its own copy of a project. The Conductor team will join Meta Superintelligence Labs. Price was not disclosed.
What Conductor Was
Conductor launched in July 2025. It ran coding agents from labs including Anthropic and OpenAI simultaneously on a single codebase. CEO Charlie Holtz and CTO Jackson de Campos founded the company in 2024.
What Happens to Current Users
The shutdown timeline is tight. Conductor stopped accepting new sign-ups on the day the deal was announced. Conductor Cloud goes read-only on November 13 and shuts down entirely on November 20, after which the company begins deleting cloud user data. Paying subscribers get a refund. The desktop app will continue receiving new models and critical bug fixes until early 2027.
“We have some big, crazy plans for the next interface. If you liked Conductor, you’re gonna love what’s coming.” — Charlie Holtz, CEO
Holtz said the team would work with Nat Friedman and Alexandr Wang at the lab, and that users would see something new early next year.
The Bigger Picture
The deal landed the same day OpenAI announced it would acquire Pierre Computer Company, which makes code storage and management tools. Both moves target developers, whom Axios described as the most important power users of AI. Meta already launched its own coding agent, Muse Code, in August, and its Muse assistant has passed 10 million users. A separate $2 billion bid for agent startup Manus collapsed after China blocked the deal.
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