Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor

Meta has acquired Conductor, an AI coding startup that allows users to spin up software projects by deploying multiple agents into parallel workspaces. The acquisition was confirmed by Meta to TechCrunch, but no additional details were provided. Conductor was founded in 2024 and launched its core product last summer. The company's agentic teams can be deployed in the cloud, locally, or via a user's phone and are designed to help software engineers work on separate, compartmentalized parts of a project in concert. The agents are not developed in-house but come from major labs like Anthropic and OpenAI. Conductor's core features will continue to work as they previously have until early next year, but the company's cloud service will shut down on November 20 and delete user cloud data.