🛠️OpenAI Acquires Ona to Run Codex Agents for Days
TL;DR
OpenAI is buying German cloud startup Ona so its Codex coding agent can keep working for hours or days, even after you close your laptop. Codex now has 5M+ weekly active users, up from 3M in April.
OpenAI is buying German cloud startup Ona so its Codex coding agent can keep working for hours or days, even after you close your laptop. Codex now has 5M+ weekly active users, up from 3M in April.
Key Points
Ona builds secure, persistent cloud environments for long-running agent tasks
Codex weekly active users: 5M+, up from 3M in April 2026
Targets the limit where an agent's context dies when the developer logs off
Agents run inside the customer's own cloud for isolation
Why It Matters
Persistent execution is the missing piece for autonomous coding; whoever owns the runtime, not just the model, captures the agent workflow.
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Why does this matter?
Persistent execution is the missing piece for autonomous coding; whoever owns the runtime, not just the model, captures the agent workflow.
What happened?
OpenAI is buying German cloud startup Ona so its Codex coding agent can keep working for hours or days, even after you close your laptop. Codex now has 5M+ weekly active users, up from 3M in April.
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