Meta has acquired Conductor, a startup that lets developers supervise several AI coding agents in parallel and review their changes before merging them. AI Insider reported on Friday that Meta confirmed the deal and declined to share further details. No purchase price was disclosed. Conductor founder and CEO Charlie Holtz said in a post on X that the company is joining Meta.
Conductor, founded in 2024, built a Mac application where each coding agent operates in its own copy of the codebase. Developers can inspect the results from each agent before merging changes into their project. The cloud version runs agents on remote servers and can be checked from an iPhone. Conductor’s app can work with agents such as Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, using the developer’s own subscriptions or access keys. Yahoo Finance reported that Conductor also supports Cursor and OpenCode and provides each task with a separate workspace, branch, file structure, terminal, diff view and review path.
Holtz started Conductor in 2024 with co-founder and CTO Jackson de Campos. In March 2026 the company raised a $22 million Series A from Spark Capital and Matrix. Holtz said he will help build a new interface at Meta Superintelligence Labs, and he named Meta chief AI officer Alexandr Wang and product head Nat Friedman as people he is excited to work with. Holtz said: “We have some big, crazy plans for the next interface. If you liked Conductor, you’re gonna love what’s coming. We’ll have something new for you to use early next year”.
Conductor has stopped new sign-ups and downloads. Free users can no longer upgrade to paid tiers, while existing Pro users keep Pro features without charge. Conductor Cloud will become read-only on November 13, active subscriptions will be refunded, and the service will close on November 20, when cloud data deletion begins. The local app will receive model updates and critical bug fixes until early 2027, then be decommissioned; The company said customer data was never sold or used to train AI models and will delete all remaining user data when local support ends.
Meta already has its own coding-agent software. Muse Code runs in a terminal and offers persistent background subagents and a local record for resuming interrupted work. Meta released Muse Code in August, and its Muse agents have passed 10 million users, according to AI Insider. Conductor’s visible workspace and review tools differ from a terminal-based agent, but Meta has not said how the acquired software will fit into Muse Code, and the acquisition is part of Meta’s effort to gain ground in AI. Meta has bought several AI companies in the last year, including Moltbook, an agent platform that went viral, according to AI Insider. Earlier this month Meta launched a $15 billion five-part US dollar bond offering to help finance AI infrastructure, Yahoo Finance reported. Meta president Dina Powell McCormick told the WSJ Tech conference that Democratic gains in the midterms would make building data centers much harder, and that the industry had not adequately explained the benefits of these investments, AI Insider reported.
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