Meta has acquired Conductor, the startup whose Mac-native tool lets developers run several AI coding agents at once in parallel workspaces. Axios reported the deal first on November 4; founder and CEO Charlie Holtz confirmed it on Conductor's blog the same day, and Meta confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Conductor, founded in 2024 and launched in July 2025 after a $22 million Series A, builds no models of its own — it orchestrates other labs' agents, including Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor and OpenCode, each in an isolated workspace. The team is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs, working with chief AI officer Alexandr Wang and product head Nat Friedman, with something new promised for early 2027. Meta launched its own coding agent, Muse Code, in August and has reported more than 10 million users for its Muse agents.

For current users the clock is already running. Conductor has stopped new sign-ups and downloads; Conductor Cloud goes read-only on November 13 and shuts down permanently on November 20, after which cloud user data will be deleted. The local app keeps receiving new models and critical bug fixes until early 2027.