Meta buys AI coding startup Conductor

Meta Platforms has acquired Conductor, whose app lets developers run several AI coding agents at once in isolated copies of a codebase. Terms were not disclosed. Conductor says more than 100,000 people use the product, and it will shut down its cloud service on November 20.

Why it matters: Meta is bulking up its AI coding tools after two model releases pitched coding as a strength, and the deal landed the same day OpenAI announced a developer-tools purchase of its own.