On 11 June 2026, OpenAI announced it was acquiring Ona, a German company previously known as Gitpod, folding its cloud-execution technology into Codex, OpenAI’s coding assistant. The stated goal is to let coding agents continue working for hours after a developer closes their laptop. Neither side disclosed what OpenAI paid. The acquisition occurs amid 2026’s reshaped AI coding competition: SpaceX bought Cursor for $60 billion, and Cognition’s valuation hit $26 billion on the back of Devin. OpenAI’s bet is that the next fight is over which company controls the infrastructure an agent runs on when nobody is watching. For engineering teams in Ireland, where US tech multinationals employ a large share of the software workforce, the deal signals that cloud execution for AI agents is becoming its own product category. OpenAI described the deal as bringing “secure cloud execution and orchestration technology” into its “rapidly expanding Codex ecosystem,” helping Codex “take on longer-running work, even when laptops are closed” and letting organizations “deploy agents securely in production.” Bloomberg first reported the news.