Meta has bought Conductor, a startup whose app lets software engineers run several AI coding agents at once. Its team will join Meta Superintelligence Labs, chief executive Charlie Holtz said. Axios first reported the deal on Wednesday, and Meta did not disclose the price.

Holtz confirmed the deal on X and in a post on Conductor's site.

“We have some big, crazy plans for the next interface. If you liked Conductor, you're gonna love what's coming,” Holtz wrote on X.

He said the team would work with Nat Friedman and Alexandr Wang at the lab, and that it would have “something new” for users early next year. Meta confirmed the deal to TechCrunch but declined to comment further.

What happens to Conductor's users

Conductor launched its app in July 2025. It runs coding agents from labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI in parallel, each working in its own copy of a project. Holtz and chief technology officer Jackson de Campos founded the company in 2024, Axios reported.

The company stopped taking new sign-ups on Wednesday, and paying users can keep using pro features for free. Conductor Cloud, its hosted service, goes read-only on 13 November and shuts down on 20 November. The company will then start deleting cloud user data, so it has asked users to export their work before that date. Active subscribers will get a refund.

The desktop app will keep getting new models and critical bug fixes until early 2027, Conductor said.

A race for developers

The deal came the same day OpenAI said it would buy Pierre Computer Company, which makes tools for storing and managing code. Both deals target developers, whom Axios called the most important power users of AI. They compete with products such as Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex.

Meta launched its own coding agent, Muse Code, in August. Its Muse assistant has passed 10 million users. Its $2bn purchase of agent startup Manus fell through after China blocked the deal.