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Meta Acquires Conductor, the Startup That Runs Coding Agents in Parallel

Meta has acquired Conductor, an AI coding startup that lets developers run several coding agents at once in separate workspaces. Axios first reported the deal on Wednesday, November 4, and Meta confirmed it to TechCrunch the same day. Financial terms were not disclosed. Nobody has said what Meta paid. But the deal says a lot about where the coding-agent race is headed. Conductor’s cloud service shuts down on November 20, just 16 days after the announcement, and the company will start deleting users’ cloud data after that. Its team is moving to Meta’s Superintelligence Labs. ...

November 5, 2026 · 6 min · 1077 words ·