OpenAI reportedly buys Gitpod for up to $500M as dev open-sources clone in 10 days

OpenAI has reportedly agreed to acquire Ona (formerly Gitpod), a 79-person cloud dev environment startup valued at $450-500M despite $7M revenue. A former employee claims to have cloned the product in about 10 days and plans to open-source it, sparking debate over AI training data copyright.

2026-10-10 ~ 2026-10-11 · 2 related posts

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