The bottom line: OpenAI acquires Ona to extend Codex with secure cloud environments, enabling long-lived AI agents in enterprise operations.
OpenAI acquires Ona to integrate secure, persistent cloud infrastructure into its Codex platform. This enables long-running AI agents in enterprise workflows.
OpenAI announces the acquisition of Ona. The company will thus expand its Codex platform with cloud infrastructure components that provide secure and persistent environments for applications.
The integration enables long-running AI agents to be deployed in enterprise workflows. This addresses a previous limitation: Codex was previously only able to execute short-term, stateless tasks. With persistent cloud environments from Ona, agents can maintain state over extended periods, access data, and traverse complex multi-stage processes.
For CTOs, this represents an expansion of technical capabilities for automating development and business processes. The combination of OpenAI’s language model capabilities and Ona’s cloud infrastructure creates new opportunities for agent-based solutions in the enterprise environment.
Source: openai.com · Published June 11, 2026
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