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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Mistral AI agrees to acquire physics-AI company Emmi AI
On 23 May 2026 Mistral AI said it had agreed to acquire Emmi AI, an Austrian physics-AI company whose large engineering models simulate power grids, injection moulding and car safety tests; more than 30 staff, including co-founder Johannes Brandstetter, are joining.
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.
The EvolutionaryScale team joins Biohub
On 6 November 2025 Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced a Biohub initiative pairing frontier AI with frontier biology; the EvolutionaryScale team joined it, and its chief scientist Alex Rives became Biohub's head of science.
Recursion completes its combination with Exscientia
Recursion completed its combination with Exscientia on 20 November 2024, making the AI drug discovery company a wholly-owned subsidiary and folding its pipeline, sites and leadership into a single organisation.
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.