Meta has acquired Conductor, an AI coding startup that lets software engineers manage multiple coding agents simultaneously, sources familiar with the deal tell Axios exclusively.

Why it matters: Meta is joining OpenAI and other AI giants in a race to own the tools developers use, as coding has become a crucial pathway to AI adoption and capturing enterprise spending.

State of play: The acquisition speaks to Meta’s continued AI ambitions and will lay the groundwork for the company’s models and ecosystem to compete for coders, the most important power users of AI.