Overview
- OpenAI announced the agreement to acquire Kiel‑based Ona on Thursday, June 11, and said Ona’s roughly 80 employees will join the Codex team after the transaction closes.
- Ona’s platform creates sandboxed cloud workspaces deployed inside a customer’s virtual private cloud with audit logging, role‑scoped credentials, and policy enforcement so agents can run under the buyer’s control.
- OpenAI says the integration will let Codex run longer, multi‑step and background coding workflows inside customer clouds so agents can continue work after a developer logs off.
- Financial terms were not disclosed and the deal remains subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals, with questions reported about future model neutrality under OpenAI ownership.
- The acquisition fits OpenAI’s recent pattern of buying infrastructure and security startups as Codex usage grows past five million weekly users and the company prepares for a possible public listing.