- OpenAI confirms its intention to acquire Ona and its agentic AI infrastructure
- Codex could benefit from Ona’s infrastructure, which provides environments for long-running tasks
- Both companies have seen a significant increase in agentic AI users this year, marking a major shift.
OpenAI has announced plans to acquire Ona, a startup that focuses on AI agents and their required environments, which could see the company absorbed into OpenAI’s Codex team.
Under the proposed deal, OpenAI would gain even more expertise to help AI agents work on long-running tasks that could even last several days.
This is happening as more and more organizations perform agent work over long periods of time, hence the demand for more persistent infrastructure.
OpenAI announces plans to acquire Ona
“[Ona’s] “The technology provides secure, persistent environments where agents can access the tools, systems and context they need to progress over time,” OpenAI said in a statement.
Ona creates secure cloud environments where AI agents can access enterprise tools and systems, maintain context, and continue running even after their laptop or browser is closed. The deal would effectively give OpenAI’s Codex access to the infrastructure layer that allows agents to continue working for much longer.
The ChatGPT creator also noted that Codex is evolving from a coding assistant to a much broader tool that helps more types of workers – it now has five million weekly users. Ona also noted a 13-fold increase in weekly sessions since the start of the year, a sign of a major appetite for technology.
After years of developing high-performance frontier models, OpenAI finally appears to be at the stage where it is now expanding its investments to provide agents with the appropriate tools, memory and environments, signaling a major shift from generative to agentic AI.
“After closing, we are excited to join the Codex team and continue building toward a future where AI accelerates the economy and helps every team and organization work safer, faster and more collaboratively,” said CEO Johannes Landgraf, referring to the regulatory approval needed to proceed.
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