OpenAI announced on June 11, 2026, that it will acquire Ona and integrate the company’s secure cloud execution and orchestration technology into the Codex ecosystem. OpenAI said Codex is now used by more than 5 million people each week, a 400% increase from earlier this year, and that many tasks now unfold over hours or days rather than minutes.
What Ona brings
Ona has focused on moving development from local machines into reproducible cloud environments. The company has helped about 2 million developers work in secure, cloud-based workspaces and supports multiple shared customers, according to OpenAI’s announcement. Ona’s technology provides persistent environments where agents can access tools, systems, and contextual data needed to make progress over extended periods.
How OpenAI plans to use the technology
OpenAI described Ona’s customer-controlled execution model as a way to let agents operate inside an organization’s own cloud environment while OpenAI supplies the intelligence and orchestration. The announcement emphasized control features organizations expect for production deployments, including where agents run, what they can access, scoped credentials, activity logging, and workflow review mechanisms.
OpenAI said integrating Ona will expand Codex beyond work tied to a single device or active session and help organizations deploy agents securely in production. The companies quoted their leaders on the rationale: Johannes Landgraf, Co-Founder and CEO of Ona, said, “Agents need more than intelligence; they need a trusted workspace. We built Ona to give agents cloud environments with the context, control and collaboration enterprises require.” Thibault Sottiaux, Core Products Lead at OpenAI, said, “Enterprises want powerful agents that can do real work while meeting the security and control requirements of their environments. Ona will help us make Codex easier to deploy securely across production workflows for customers operating at the highest standards of trust and scale.”
The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including required regulatory approvals. Until closing, OpenAI and Ona will remain separate and independent companies. After closing, OpenAI said the Ona team will join the Codex team to advance secure, persistent enterprise execution capabilities and help scale Codex to more enterprises worldwide.
Original source: OpenAI News