OpenAI to Acquire Ona for Persistent Enterprise AI Agents

On June 11, 2026, OpenAI announced its plans to acquire Ona, the AI software engineering automation company formerly operating as Gitpod. The strategic acquisition plans aim to absorb Ona's advanced cloud execution and secure orchestration technology, supercharging OpenAI's Codex ecosystem as the company shifts heavily toward enterprise-grade, autonomous AI development.

The company said weekly Codex users have jumped 400% this year to over 5 million as the tool expands from helping programmers to automating complex work for everyone. Because Codex now handles big projects taking hours or days instead of minutes, OpenAI wants users to be able to hand off a task and walk away.

Ona offers virtual workspaces that let AI agents run for days with all the tools they need. The acquisition frees Codex from being stuck on a single device or active session, making it safer and easier for businesses to deploy autonomous AI in production, the company said.

“Ona brings the building blocks agents need for enterprise work: trusted, customer-controlled cloud environments where work continues across devices, inside the systems where software actually lives. OpenAI brings frontier intelligence, product polish, and a scale of research and distribution we could never reach alone,” said Johannes Landgraf, CEO & Co-Founder of Ona.