On June 11, 2026 (US time), OpenAI announced that it will acquire Ona, a company specializing in secure cloud execution and orchestration technology. By bringing Ona's technology into the rapidly expanding Codex ecosystem, OpenAI aims to let AI agents keep working on tasks lasting hours or even days in cloud environments detached from the user's local machine[1].

Codex Now Serves 5 Million Weekly Users; the Next Challenge Is Working On After the Laptop Closes

Codex is now used by more than 5 million people each week, up 400 percent from earlier this year. While it began as a tool for software developers, it now helps a much wider range of people carry complex work from the initial request through to a finished result, including research, analysis, and automation[1].

According to OpenAI, as Codex becomes more capable, its most valuable work increasingly unfolds over hours or days rather than minutes. The company believes people should be able to delegate more ambitious work without remaining tied to the machine where it began. Work should continue beyond the initial session, with users able to check progress, provide direction, make decisions, and review results from anywhere[1].

Ona's technology provides secure, persistent execution environments where agents can access the tools, systems, and context they need to make progress over time. Through the acquisition, OpenAI says it will expand Codex beyond work tied to a single device or active session, and help more organizations deploy agents securely in production[1].

Ona Is the Former Gitpod, Which Supported 2 Million Developers with Cloud Dev Environments

Ona has spent years moving software development from local machines into the cloud. The company was founded in Kiel, Germany under the name Gitpod, and has helped 2 million developers work in secure, reproducible cloud environments. It also shares multiple customers with OpenAI[1][2].

OpenAI explains that this experience is directly relevant to the next phase of Codex: enabling agents to continue working inside a customer's cloud environment even after the laptop is closed[1].

A Customer-Controlled Execution Model: Agents Run Inside the Company's Own Cloud

When organizations move agents from experimentation into production workflows, capable models are only one part of what they need. OpenAI points out that organizations must be confident agents are operating in environments that meet their security, governance, and operational requirements, including control over where agents run, what they can access, how credentials are scoped, how activity is logged, and how work moves through review[1].

Under Ona's customer-controlled execution model, agents operate inside an organization's own cloud environment while OpenAI provides the intelligence and orchestration that power the experience. This gives companies control over their infrastructure, data, and security boundaries without limiting what Codex can accomplish[1].

The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including required regulatory approvals, and the two companies will remain separate and independent until closing. After closing, the Ona team will join OpenAI and work with the Codex team on secure, persistent enterprise execution capabilities and on scaling Codex to more enterprises worldwide. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed in the announcement[1].

Summary

This acquisition looks like a deliberate step toward evolving Codex from a coding assistant for developers into an agent platform that keeps working inside organizations. The question is how far Ona's technology, honed over years as Gitpod in cloud development environments, can make "work that continues after the laptop closes" a reality. With long-running autonomous agents becoming a fiercely contested field, the next Codex update will be worth watching.

出典:https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-ona

出典:https://www.startbase.com/news/openai-holt-deutsches-startup-ona-ins-codex-team