OpenAI Acquires Ona (Formerly Gitpod) to Give Codex Agents Persistent, Secure Cloud Environments
Read this because The race in agentic coding has shifted from model quality to runtime. OpenAI is buying the boring, hard infrastructure — persistence, sandboxing, audit — that turns a clever agent into a deployable one.
OpenAI is acquiring Ona — the cloud dev-environment firm formerly known as Gitpod — to let Codex agents run longer tasks in persistent, audited environments.