Conductor Joins Meta Superintelligence Labs to Build Next-Gen Interface

On November 5, founder Charlie Holtz announced that the team behind Conductor, his AI coding/agent orchestration tool, is joining Meta to work with Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), led by Nat Friedman and Alexandr Wang, on building the "next generation of interfaces." Holtz said the team has grand and wild plans for the new interface, adding that users who loved Conductor will love what comes next.

Confirmed

• Conductor joins Meta; the team enters MSL and will work with Nat Friedman and Alexandr Wang
• Conductor Cloud becomes read-only on November 13 and shuts down on November 20
• Local Conductor will continue receiving new model support, with the product winding down gradually over the coming weeks to months
• The team said Meta was chosen because MSL is the best place to realize its vision (per multiple secondhand accounts)

Why it matters

• This is another case of Meta Superintelligence Labs absorbing independent AI developers, showing its strategy of rapidly expanding talent by acquiring small, popular tool teams
• Conductor users must migrate their cloud data or switch to the local version before November 20
• The "next generation of interfaces" phrasing suggests Meta may be exploring new forms of AI human-computer interaction, making its upcoming products worth watching

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