**[OpenAI Acquires Ona: Enabling Codex Agents to Run Persistently Beyond Single Devices]** According to monitoring by *Beating*, OpenAI has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Ona (formerly Gitpod), a cloud development environment and agent sandbox platform. After the transaction is completed, the Ona team will be integrated into OpenAI's Codex team. As the technical core of this acquisition, Ona's secure cloud execution and orchestration technology will provide Codex agents with a persistent, customer-controlled cloud environment. Agents will be able to continue running tasks for hours or even days, even when the user's device is turned off or offline. Currently, Codex has 5 million active users per week, representing a 400% increase since the beginning of this year. Ona has already helped over 2 million developers migrate their software development workflows from local environments to the cloud. In subsequent deployments, enterprise users will have full control over the specific environment in which agents operate, access permissions, credential scopes, and log monitoring. This ensures security and compliance while enabling Codex agents to be introduced into production environments. The acquisition is still subject to regulatory approval, and until the transaction is officially completed, the two companies will continue to operate independently. [*Original Link*]