OpenAI announced the latest addition to its business with plans to acquire Ona, a company that enables AI software engineers to run autonomously in cloud environments. Ona’s capabilities will be directly incorporated into OpenAI’s Codex ecosystem, allowing users to complete more time-consuming tasks while away from their devices.
The integration is expected to help engineers complete sustained work across the software lifecycle in secure environments. Leveraging Ona’s capabilities within Codex, teams will be able to run tasks, resolve issues, optimize applications, address vulnerabilities and support complex workflows over time.
“Enterprises want powerful agents that can do real work while meeting the security and control requirements of their environments,” Thibault Sottiaux, core products lead at OpenAI, said in a statement. “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 the transaction, the two companies will remain separate and independent entities. Ona’s team will collaborate with OpenAI’s Codex organization, helping extend Codex’s reach to more enterprises across the globe.
This announcement follows a string of growth initiatives from OpenAI, most recently including the company’s IPO filing. The move also comes after the generative AI giant’s April acquisition of Hiro Finance and a hefty funding round that boosted its valuation to $852 billion.
