Meta has acquired Conductor, a young startup whose tool lets developers run and manage several AI coding agents in parallel. Axios first reported the deal, which was later confirmed. Terms were not disclosed.
Conductor, founded in 2024, raised a $22 million Series A in March led by Spark and Matrix, and says more than 100,000 people use it. The idea is simple: instead of working with a single coding agent such as Anthropic's Claude Code or OpenAI's Codex, a developer can run several at once, each on a different task, and track them all from one place.
Existing users get less good news. According to the company, its cloud service becomes read-only on November 13 and shuts down on November 20, and new sign-ups and downloads have already stopped. The local version will keep getting new models and critical bug fixes until early 2027. Conductor users should export their data before the deadline. CEO Charlie Holtz promised 'something new' for customers by early next year, but Meta has not said whether it will support rivals' agents.
The deal joins a string of moves in the coding-tools race. Just this week OpenAI announced it is buying Pierre, which builds a code storage service, and Meta itself bought AI agent company Manus in the past year. They are all making the same bet: the future of software development is one developer managing an army of agents, and whoever controls those tools will control much of the work of millions of developers.
