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By Alina Neacsu
OpenAI plans to acquire cloud infrastructure specialist Ona in a move aimed at helping enterprises deploy long-running AI agents within their own cloud environments. As organisations move beyond pilot projects, issues such as governance, access control and compliance are becoming as important as model performance itself.
For eeNews Europe readers involved in software engineering, cloud platforms and enterprise AI deployment, the deal highlights how AI vendors are increasingly building complete operational stacks rather than focusing solely on foundation models.
OpenAI says more than five million people now use its Codex platform each week for software development, research, analysis and workflow automation. The company argues that as AI agents take on more complex tasks, work increasingly extends over hours or days rather than minutes.
Current agent workflows often remain tied to a user’s device or active session. OpenAI believes future deployments will require agents that can continue operating independently while users monitor progress, provide feedback and review results when needed.
Ona’s technology is designed to provide those persistent execution environments. The company has developed cloud-based infrastructure that allows developers and AI systems to work within secure, reproducible environments that remain available beyond a single session.
According to OpenAI, Ona has helped around two million developers move development workloads from local machines into cloud-based environments.
A major focus of the acquisition is enterprise deployment. Many organisations remain cautious about allowing AI agents to access production systems, internal data and business-critical workflows without appropriate controls.
OpenAI says enterprises increasingly require visibility into where agents run, what resources they can access, how credentials are managed and how actions are audited.
Ona’s customer-controlled execution model allows agents to operate inside an organisation’s own cloud infrastructure rather than within vendor-managed environments. OpenAI would provide the AI models and orchestration capabilities while customers retain control over infrastructure, security boundaries and governance policies.
“Agents need more than intelligence; they need a trusted workspace. We built Ona to give agents cloud environments with the context, control and collaboration enterprises require. Joining OpenAI lets us bring that foundation into Codex, helping organizations deploy agents with confidence and giving humans more agency over their work,” said Johannes Landgraf, co-founder and CEO of Ona.
Thibault Sottiaux, Core Products Lead at OpenAI, added: “Enterprises want powerful agents that can do real work while meeting the security and control requirements of their environments. Ona will help us make Codex easier to deploy securely across production workflows for customers operating at the highest standards of trust and scale.”
Following completion of the transaction, the Ona team will join OpenAI and work alongside the Codex organisation to develop enterprise execution capabilities.
OpenAI says the combined technologies could support software lifecycle activities, including automated testing, issue resolution, application modernisation, vulnerability remediation and other engineering tasks that benefit from persistent agent execution.
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