GoKawiilCEO of OpenAI Sam Altman walks through the Hart Senate Office Building, following meetings on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 3, 2026.
OpenAI on Thursday announced it will acquire Ona, a startup that provides secure, pre-configured cloud environments where artificial intelligence agents can access tools, systems and context.
Ona's technology will allow OpenAI's coding assistant, Codex, to take on longer-running tasks, OpenAI said. It will also help more organizations deploy agents, which independently complete tasks on behalf of a user, into production, the company said.
OpenAI did not disclose the terms of the acquisition, which is still subject to customary closing conditions. Ona's staff will join OpenAI and work on the Codex team once the deal is closed.
"I always thought selling the company would feel like an ending. Instead, it feels like our life's work just got bigger and more important," Ona CEO Johannes Landgraf wrote in a post on LinkedIn.
OpenAI kickstarted the AI boom with the launch of its ChatGPT chatbot in 2022, and it's been pouring investment into Codex in recent months as software developers have embraced AI agents as part of their workflows. It's racing against its chief rival, Anthropic, which has experienced a period of explosive growth over the last year, driven in part by the popularity of its own AI coding assistant, Claude Code.