Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What you need to know The deal: announced on 11 June 2026, OpenAI is acquiring Ona — the German cloud startup formerly known as Gitpod (Gitpod GmbH). Terms were not disclosed. What Ona does: it runs Codex agents inside customer-controlled cloud sandboxes that can operate unattended for hours or days at a time. The team: Ona's people, including chief executive Johannes Landgraf, join OpenAI's Codex group. The scale: Codex now has more than five million weekly users, up roughly 400% earlier this year. The shift: coding agents move from short interactive sessions to long-running, sandboxed, autonomous execution — and "agent ops" becomes a skill worth hiring for. Pro tip If you only learn one thing from this acquisition, make it this: the value is no longer in the chat box, it is in the…
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