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Meta acquires Conductor as AI companies pursue coding tools

Conductor lets engineers manage several coding agents at once. The acquisition puts another developer tool in Meta’s hands as OpenAI pursues a deal of its own.

Glass-roofed atrium and multiple balconies inside Meta’s Dublin offices.
Photo: Alex Sirac, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped)

Meta has acquired Conductor, an AI coding startup whose product lets software engineers manage multiple coding agents simultaneously, Axios reported on 4 November, citing people familiar with the deal.

The purchase brings a tool for coordinating coding agents into Meta. Axios described the deal as part of a push by AI companies to own the tools developers use, with coding becoming a route to AI adoption and enterprise spending.

AI Affairs has reported OpenAI’s plan to acquire Pierre Computer and add Code Storage to Codex.

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Topics: Agents, Enterprise adoption