Acquisition of start-up Ona intended to help build out OpenAI's Codex programming tool, as it competes with Anthropic

OpenAI is acquiring Ona, previously known as Gitpod, a startup founded in Kiel, Germany in 2020 that specializes in AI agents and secure cloud development environments for…

OpenAI acquires Ona, the German startup once called Gitpod, to run Codex agents inside customers' own clouds. The real fight is enterprise trust.