Founder says "Conductor is joining Meta"
Charlie Holtz, founder and CEO of U.S.-based Conductor, which makes an app that runs multiple AI coding agents at the same time, said on X on Nov. 4 (Nov. 5 Japan time) that the company is joining Meta. According to Holtz, the team will build "the next interface" with Nat Friedman and Alexandr Wang at Meta's AI research organization, "Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)." Holtz wrote, "We have some big, crazy plans for the next interface," but did not reveal what they are.
I am very excited to share that Conductor is joining Meta! If you liked Conductor, you're gonna love what's coming. … We have some big, crazy plans for the next interface.
Meta had not issued an announcement or comment as of Nov. 5. According to Seeking Alpha, Meta had not responded to a request for comment at the time its article was published. Axios separately reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that Meta acquired the company. Neither Conductor, Meta nor the reports have disclosed the price, the structure or when the deal will close.
The two people Holtz named are in leadership positions at MSL. Meta established MSL in June 2025. According to an internal memo CEO Zuckerberg issued at the time, Wang leads it as chief AI officer, and Friedman handles AI products and applied research.
A tool for running other companies' agents side by side
Conductor is an app that runs agents such as Anthropic's Claude Code, OpenAI's Codex and Cursor at the same time on a Mac. Each agent works on its own separate copy of the code, and users review each set of changes before merging them. The company has no AI models of its own and serves to orchestrate and manage other companies' agents.
It was founded in 2024 and joined Y Combinator's summer 2024 batch. It was co-founded by CEO Holtz and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Jackson de Campos. The Mac version launched in July 2025, and the company later expanded to a version that runs in the cloud as well as use from smartphones and via an API. The company says more than 100,000 developers use it.
On March 30, 2026, it announced it had raised a $22 million Series A from Spark Capital and Matrix. It said users had grown tenfold since January and that dozens of engineers at companies including Google, Meta, Amazon and Spotify were using it. Meta had been named as a company using Conductor before the move.
Meta has its own Muse Code
On Aug. 5, Meta released a beta of "Muse Code," its own coding agent that runs in the terminal. For large tasks, it assigns work to multiple helper agents using separate copies of the code. Meta thus has within its own product the kind of system for running agents side by side that Conductor had provided from the outside.
On Oct. 12 (Oct. 13 Japan time), it released a new model, "Muse Wonder," and the higher-end "Muse Wonder Full," and made them available in Muse Code as well. API pricing has been reported at $4 for input and $20 for output per 1 million tokens. Holtz praised it on X that same day, saying Meta had caught up with the frontier and that Wonder was really good.
How MSL's products will change with Conductor joining has not been disclosed. Holtz's explanation went no further than "the next interface," and he did not mention any relationship with Muse Code. According to reports, Conductor aims to release something new in early 2027.
On developer tools, OpenAI announced an acquisition the same day
On the same day, Nov. 4, OpenAI announced the acquisition of U.S. developer tool Pierre. Pierre makes tools for storing code and displaying code changes, and OpenAI said it will incorporate them into Codex. Axios noted that the Conductor and Pierre deals fell on the same day.
AI companies have been bringing in, one after another, companies that make tools surrounding code-writing agents. In December 2025, Anthropic announced it would buy JavaScript runtime Bun, and Cursor announced the same month it would buy code review tool Graphite. Meta acquired AI agent maker Manus in December 2025. The Wall Street Journal reported the price exceeded $2 billion.
In October, Meta projected 2026 capital spending of $135 billion to $145 billion and also laid out a plan to raise up to $95 billion through stock issuance. Most of the money goes to AI computing resources such as data centers. The amount for the Conductor deal has not been disclosed.
| Announced | Acquirer | Target | Target's field |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 3, 2025 | Anthropic | Bun | JavaScript runtime |
| Dec. 19, 2025 | Cursor | Graphite | Code review |
| Dec. 29, 2025 | Meta | Manus | AI agents |
| Nov. 4, 2026 | OpenAI | Pierre | Code storage, display of changes |
| Nov. 4, 2026 | Meta (announced by Conductor's founder) | Conductor | Managing multiple agents |
Cloud version ends Nov. 20; Mac version continues through early 2027
Conductor stopped new sign-ups and app downloads at the same time as announcing the move. Free users can no longer upgrade to the paid Pro plan, while current Pro users can keep using its features for free. The company said it will refund active subscribers.
"Conductor Cloud," the cloud version, becomes read-only on Nov. 13 and shuts down on the 20th. Because deletion of Cloud user data will begin at shutdown, users need to move or export their data before then. The company says it has never sold user data or used it for training.
The Mac version will continue to receive support for new models and fixes for critical bugs through early 2027. After that, it too will wind down. Even in its final update on Nov. 4, the company made OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra selectable in Codex.
| Date | Conductor's action |
|---|---|
| Nov. 4, 2026 | New sign-ups and downloads stopped; Pro continues for free, subscribers refunded |
| Nov. 13, 2026 | Conductor Cloud becomes read-only; only viewing past conversations and exporting data are possible |
| Nov. 20, 2026 | Conductor Cloud shuts down; deletion of Cloud user data begins |
| Early 2027 | New model support and critical bug fixes for the Mac version end, and it winds down |
