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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Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign merger agreement
On 16 September 2026 Cohere and German AI company Aleph Alpha signed a merger agreement, reportedly valuing the combined company at about $20 billion. The deal still needed regulatory approval.
SpaceX acquires xAI
On 2 February 2026 SpaceX acquired xAI in an all-stock deal. A memo to employees put the combined company at $1.25 trillion, and LSEG data showed it to be the largest merger on record. The AI unit was renamed SpaceXAI in July 2026.
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.
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.
Google acquires DeepMind
On 26 January 2014 Google confirmed its acquisition of DeepMind, the London AI company founded in 2010. The deal brought a small deep-learning research group known for Atari-playing systems into Google and set up a unit later merged with Google Brain.
Google acquires DNNresearch
In March 2013 the University of Toronto announced that Google had acquired DNNresearch, a start-up incorporated in 2012 by Geoffrey Hinton and two of his graduate students for work on deep neural networks.