Meta Acquires Conductor, Shutting Its Cloud Service on November 20
Summary
Meta acquired Conductor, an AI coding startup founded in 2024, Meta confirmed to TechCrunch. Conductor founder and CEO Charlie Holtz said core features keep working until early next year, but the cloud service shuts down November 20 and user cloud data will then be deleted. Meta gave no deal terms.
Key Points
- Conductor's agents come from labs including Anthropic and OpenAI rather than in-house development, the startup says.
- Holtz says he looks forward to working with Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang and Superintelligence Labs product head Nat Friedman.
- Conductor's agents run in the cloud, locally, or through a user's phone, the startup says.