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Overview

Gitpod was a cloud development environment platform that helped developers move software development from local machines into secure, reproducible cloud workspaces. The company rebranded to ona, reflecting a pivot toward agentic cloud execution beyond traditional IDE workflows.

History

  • Built cloud dev environments for 2 million developers
  • Rebranded to Ona before openai acquisition announcement (June 11, 2026)
  • Technology provides foundation for persistent codex agent workspaces

OpenAI Acquisition

OpenAI announced acquisition of Ona (formerly Gitpod) to give Codex persistent, customer-controlled cloud execution (2026-06-11-openai-codex-ona-acquisition).

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