'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.' 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. Conductor, founded in 2024, only launched its core product just last summer. 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. Holtz said that, until early...
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