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Updated · Bloomberg · Jun 11OpenAI Agrees to Buy Ona, Folding Startup Into Codex Used by 5 Million Weekly
3 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · Jun 11Summary
- OpenAI has agreed to acquire Ona, a cloud-services startup for AI agents, in a deal set to be announced Thursday that has not yet closed.
- Ona’s team will join OpenAI’s Codex effort, tying the acquisition directly to tools the company says now serve more than 5 million users each week.
- The purchase is aimed at making OpenAI’s technology more useful for businesses by strengthening the infrastructure that supports AI agents.
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With its new acquisition, is OpenAI building agents that can autonomously run entire business departments without human oversight? As OpenAI builds its full AI stack, are the days of relying on Big Tech's cloud platforms for enterprise AI numbered?