Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor
Meta has acquired Conductor, an AI coding startup that allows users to spin up software projects by deploying multiple agents into parallel workspaces. The news was originally reported by Axios, and Conductor shared news of its acquisition on its blog.
Meta 收购了人工智能编程初创公司 Conductor，该公司允许用户通过在并行工作区中部署多个代理来启动软件项目。这一消息最初由 Axios 报道，Conductor 也在其博客上分享了被收购的消息。
“I have big news: Conductor is joining Meta,” wrote the startup’s founder and CEO, Charlie Holtz, on Wednesday. “We have some big, crazy plans for the next interface,” he added, teasing that the company would have “something new” for customers to use by “early next year.”
“我有一个重大消息：Conductor 即将加入 Meta，”该初创公司的创始人兼首席执行官 Charlie Holtz 周三写道。“我们对下一个界面有一些宏大而疯狂的计划，”他补充说，并暗示公司将在“明年年初”为客户提供“新产品”。
On X, Holtz also noted that he was looking forward to working with Alexandr Wang, Meta’s chief AI officer, and Nat Friedman, head of product at the company’s Superintelligence Labs. “They’ve been on an absolute tear, and I’m convinced MSL has the highest talent density of all the labs,” he added.
在 X（原推特）上，Holtz 还表示他非常期待与 Meta 首席人工智能官 Alexandr Wang 以及公司超级智能实验室（Superintelligence Labs）的产品负责人 Nat Friedman 共事。“他们一直表现得非常出色，我坚信 MSL 是所有实验室中人才密度最高的，”他补充道。
Meta confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch but wouldn’t comment further or provide additional details about the deal. Conductor, founded in 2024, only launched its core product just last summer.
Meta 向 TechCrunch 证实了此次收购，但拒绝发表进一步评论或提供有关交易的更多细节。Conductor 成立于 2024 年，其核心产品直到去年夏天才正式发布。
The company’s agentic teams, which can be deployed in the cloud, locally, or via a user’s phone, are designed to help software engineers work on separate, compartmentalized parts of a project in concert. The agents that the platform deploys aren’t developed in-house but come from major labs like Anthropic and OpenAI.
该公司的代理团队可以部署在云端、本地或通过用户的手机运行，旨在帮助软件工程师协同处理项目中独立且细分的任务。该平台部署的代理并非内部开发，而是来自 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 等主要实验室。
Holtz said that, until early next year, Conductor’s core features would continue to work as they previously have. The exception is Conductor’s cloud service, which will shut down on November 20, after which the company will begin deleting user cloud data.
Holtz 表示，在明年年初之前，Conductor 的核心功能将继续照常运行。唯一的例外是 Conductor 的云服务，该服务将于 11 月 20 日关闭，此后公司将开始删除用户的云端数据。
Meta, which previously lagged behind in AI services, has spent the last several months trying to catch up. In August, the company launched Muse Code, its own coding agent. Meanwhile, the company’s recently launched Muse agents are seeing significant adoption, with the company recently reporting that the service had surpassed 10 million users.
Meta 此前在人工智能服务方面处于落后地位，过去几个月一直在努力追赶。今年 8 月，该公司推出了自己的编程代理 Muse Code。与此同时，该公司最近推出的 Muse 代理正获得广泛采用，公司近期报告称该服务用户已超过 1000 万。
The company has also made a number of AI-related acquisitions over the past year, including Moltbook, the viral agent platform that made headlines.
过去一年里，该公司还进行了一系列与人工智能相关的收购，其中包括曾登上头条的病毒式代理平台 Moltbook。