OpenAI Buys Ona To Run Codex Agents Inside Enterprise Clouds

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OpenAI is acquiring Ona, the cloud development platform formerly known as Gitpod, to deploy its Codex agents directly within customers' own cloud infrastructure. The move signals a strategic shift in the competitive landscape for AI coding tools, away from raw model performance and toward the execution layer that determines whether agents can actually run reliably inside enterprise environments. By controlling both the agent technology and the infrastructure where it operates, OpenAI aims to lock in enterprise customers who need their proprietary code to stay within their own cloud accounts.