Meta Acquires AI Coding Startup Conductor, Shutting Down Independent Multi-Agent Tool
Meta has acquired Conductor, a startup enabling developers to run multiple AI coding agents simultaneously. The service, used by over 100,000 people, will cease operations as the team joins Meta to build next-gen coding tools.
US technology giant Meta Platforms Inc. has confirmed the acquisition of artificial intelligence coding startup Conductor (formally Melty Inc.). The deal was first reported by Axios, and Conductor subsequently verified its move to Meta in a post on its website, though financial terms were not disclosed.
Conductor’s core product is a desktop application that allows developers to run several AI coding agents at once—such as Anthropic’s Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex, and Cursor—each working in an isolated copy of the codebase before human review and merging. The company stated that more than 100,000 people use its platform.
With the acquisition complete, Conductor’s standalone services will be phased out. New sign-ups and downloads halted on November 4, and paid features are now free for existing subscribers. The cloud service, “Conductor Cloud,” will become read-only on November 13 and shut down entirely on November 20, after which user data will be deleted. Local Mac app copies will continue to function until early 2027 but will no longer receive new models or critical bug fixes.
Meta engineers were already heavy users of Conductor prior to the deal. When Conductor announced its Series A funding in March, it named Meta, Google LLC, and Spotify Technology SA among the companies with dozens of engineers using the product. People familiar with the deal told Axios that Meta values the Conductor team’s speed in shipping products and aims to leverage this capability to build its next generation of AI coding tools.
The acquisition follows a series of Meta model releases focused on coding. On October 15, Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weights version of its Muse Spark model aimed at coding and long-running agent work. Earlier, on October 12, it launched the more capable closed-source Muse Wonder models, integrated into its internal Muse Code terminal and API. On the same day as the Conductor news, rival OpenAI also announced plans to acquire developer tools startup Pierre Computer, highlighting a trend of major tech firms consolidating AI programming infrastructure through M&A.