OpenAI acquires cloud development platform Ona ​​to enhance Codex's long-running agent execution capabilities.

CoinFeed, June 11 – OpenAI announced its acquisition of Ona, a cloud development and AI agent platform, and will integrate Ona's secure cloud execution and orchestration technologies into the Codex ecosystem to support agents running continuously for extended periods in customers' on-premises cloud environments. Ona announced that it has signed an agreement with OpenAI. Upon completion of the transaction, the Ona team will join OpenAI and collaborate with the Codex team to provide enterprises with agents that can run in their own clouds. This will strengthen control over runtime location, access permissions, credential scope, audit logs, and audit processes, helping to securely deploy long-running AI agents in production workflows for testing, bug fixing, application modernization, and vulnerability handling. Ona stated that since the beginning of this year, weekly usage of enterprise-grade Ona agents in production environments has increased approximately 13-fold, with customers including those in the US...