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OpenAI Agrees to Acquire Agent Runtime Provider Ona

June 11, 2026 at 11:06 EDT

AI Agents
Software Dev & Coding
Funding & M&A

OpenAI announced on June 11, 2026, that it has agreed to acquire Ona (formerly Gitpod), a provider of cloud execution infrastructure for AI software engineering agents. By incorporating Ona's secure cloud execution technology, OpenAI aims to let its coding agent Codex run longer tasks even when laptops are closed, and to help organizations deploy agents securely in production.

Acquisition · OpenAI

OpenAI Acquires Ona to Give Codex a Secure Cloud Engine for Long-Running Agents

By absorbing Ona's in-VPC execution technology, OpenAI aims to let its coding agent Codex run longer tasks autonomously — even with laptops closed — and ship agents securely into production. The Ona team will join the Codex team after the deal closes.

4×

Reported productivity increase

83%

Of PRs co-authored by Ona

400+

Python repos modernized in 6 months

88%

AI comment acceptance rate

Migration work, mostly automated

Share of migration effort Ona automates — leaving only a sliver of manual work.

~92%

Automated

~8%

Manual

PR review time also cut by 50%.

How Ona runs agents

Autonomous background agents inside the customer's own cloud

Trigger
PR · CVE · cron

→

Isolated VPC
ephemeral env

→

Agent runs
tests · code

→

Audited output
SOC 2 · policies

What works

Parallel, background execution clears backlogs
Over 90% of migration work automated
Months of work finished in hours
Fits existing modular codebases

Rough edges

Awkward file-jumping when paired with Cursor
Constraints on context and model selection
Counterproductive on messy codebases
Unlikely daily driver for solo developers

Deal terms undisclosed. Value, terms and closing timing have not been disclosed; the transaction is expected to close subject to regulatory approval.

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