OpenAI to acquire Gitpod for ~$450-500M as hacker clones it in 10 days
latticecut · x · 2026-10-10
- OpenAI agreed to acquire Ona (formerly Gitpod), a 79-person startup building persistent cloud development environments. Terms undisclosed; analysts estimate $450-500M against $7M 2025 revenue.
- The deal gives Codex self-hosted sandboxes where agents can run for hours or days unattended, with enterprise governance controls. OpenAI says Codex passed 5M weekly users; Ona reports 13x growth in weekly agent sessions this year.
- It continues frontier labs' pattern of buying infrastructure for longer-running autonomous coding agents.
- Geoffrey Huntley says he recreated his former employer Gitpod in under 10 days and will release it open-source, on-prem: any software can now be rebuilt rapidly with tokens and an agent harness.
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