Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor
In early November 2026 Meta acquired Conductor, a startup whose platform runs multiple AI coding agents in parallel workspaces. Conductor's cloud service was set to shut down on 20 November 2026.
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ggml.ai, the team behind llama.cpp, joins Hugging Face
On 20 February 2026, ggml.ai — the founding team of llama.cpp — joined Hugging Face, which is to provide long-term resources while ggml and llama.cpp stay 100% open source and community-run.
Claude Code reaches $1B run-rate; Anthropic acquires Bun
On 3 December 2025 Anthropic said Claude Code had reached $1 billion in run-rate revenue, and agreed to acquire Bun, a JavaScript runtime that had already worked with Anthropic on Claude Code's native installer.
Perplexity offers $34.5 billion for Google Chrome
On 12 August 2025 the AI startup Perplexity made a $34.5 billion all-cash bid to buy Google's Chrome browser, presenting the sale as a remedy for Google's antitrust litigation and pledging to keep Chromium open source.
OpenAI acquires Jony Ive's hardware startup io
On 21 May 2025 OpenAI announced it was acquiring io, the AI hardware startup founded by designer Jony Ive, in an all-stock deal valuing io at about $6.5 billion and putting Ive in charge of OpenAI's hardware and design work.
xAI acquires X Corp. in an all-stock deal
On 28 March 2025 Elon Musk announced that his AI company xAI had acquired X Corp., the owner of the X social network, in an all-stock deal that valued X at $33 billion and xAI at $80 billion.
Perplexity bids to merge with TikTok US
On 18 January 2025, Perplexity submitted a bid to merge with TikTok's US business, proposing a combined entity rather than an acquisition in an attempt to work around ByteDance's refusal to sell, one day before a US ban was due to take effect.
Apple acquires Siri
In April 2010 Apple bought Siri, a San Jose start-up whose app answered spoken requests on the iPhone; the deal, reported by The New York Times, put voice-driven assistance on the path to becoming a built-in phone feature.