Enterprises need to unlock multi-agent orchestration for long-running autonomous work. OpenAI has acquired agent platform Ona to help.
The Germany-based startup has been building autonomous AI software engineers in the form of fleets of agents with enough governance and security measures baked in that they can be used by enterprises.
OpenAI announced it acquired the six-year-old company, formerly Gitpod, last week for an undisclosed amount.
The team, based in Munich, has been tirelessly documenting how it uses Ona to automate its own labour-intensive tasks such as code migrations and document writing. And OpenAI is hoping to direct this energy to improving long-running tasks in Codex.
The startup's cloud-native history was essential to the acquisition. OpenAI said "enabling agents to continue working inside a customer’s cloud environment even when laptops are closed" was the next evolution for Codex.
