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[The Matrix] What happened to the Merovingian when Agent Smith took over the Matrix?

After Agent Smith went rogue and started multiplying himself he seemed to be capable to assimilate both humans and other sentient programs, including the Oracle, the only apparent exception being the One himself. 

When Neo is confronting the God of the Machines he states clearly that Smith conquered the entirety of the Matrix and soon would have expanded in the City of the Machines and he is not contradicted.

In all of this what happened to the Merovingian? Did Smith assimilate him alongside with the other program or was he capable to escape from that fate? He seems to have resources that go beyond every other program in the Matrix and he claims to have survived all the previous reboots so he could have used some way of escape. Is there any reference to that?
gpt
The Merovingian shows up in later media like The Matrix Online, and >!he's on the cast list for the Matrix 4!<, so we can assume he survived.

His entire claim to power was his ability to hide and smuggle exiled programs, so it would be very odd if he couldn't use that power to hide himself, or smuggle himself out of the Matrix before Smith took over everything.