OpenAI acquires AI agent orchestration startup Ona
OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Ona, a startup with a platform for managing long-running artificial intelligence agents.
The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Developers often run the AI agents they use to write code on their local machines. When a workstation is turned off, the AI agents that it runs end their work. That limits their ability to perform long-running tasks spanning multiple days.
Ona, officially Gitpod GmbH, provides a platform that enables AI agents to run in cloud-based sandboxes. Ona sandboxes remain online when the developers who use them shut down their workstations, which means AI agents’ work is not interrupted.
