Meta buys AI coding startup Conductor as big tech races to lock in developers
The Decoder · rss · 2026-11-05
Meta is acquiring Conductor, a startup that lets developers control multiple AI coding agents at once. The same day, OpenAI announced plans to acquire Pierre Computer, and Anthropic bought Stainless in May. The Decoder reads the pattern: AI models are becoming interchangeable and value is shifting to the tools built around them.
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