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OpenAI Plans Acquisition of Ona to Power Persistent Cloud Environments for Codex

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OpenAI has announced plans to acquire Ona to expand its Codex platform with secure, persistent cloud environments. The infrastructure addition is designed to facilitate long-running AI agents operating across enterprise workflows.

Why it matters

Executing complex, multi-step agentic workflows requires dedicated runtime environments rather than isolated completions, making persistent cloud infrastructure a critical layer in enterprise AI agent deployment.

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  • enterprise-ai-automation
  • cloud-runtime-infrastructure

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