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OpenAI has agreed to acquire Ona, a cloud platform startup that helps power artificial intelligence agents, in a move aimed at making OpenAI’s technology more useful for businesses, according to Bloomberg. The deal underscores how quickly OpenAI is pushing beyond consumer chatbots and into enterprise tools that can automate more complex work.
Ona provides cloud services designed to support AI agents, the software systems that can carry out tasks more independently than a basic chatbot. By bringing that capability in-house, OpenAI appears to be strengthening the infrastructure behind its agent strategy, which has become a major focus for companies trying to turn generative AI into practical business products.
The acquisition also fits a broader pattern at OpenAI of building out services for organizations and public institutions. Bloomberg separately reported on comments from OpenAI’s Head of Countries, George Osborne, who said many governments have discussed adopting AI but have not yet delivered on it. He argued that countries that move faster on adoption could gain the biggest economic and public-service benefits.
Osborne’s role reflects OpenAI’s growing emphasis on international partnerships and government-facing deployments. In recent public appearances, he has described OpenAI’s work with countries as part of a broader effort to help governments build national AI capacity, including in education and healthcare, suggesting the company sees public-sector adoption as a significant growth area.
The Ona deal comes at a time when AI developers are racing to make their systems more reliable, more autonomous, and easier to deploy in real-world settings. For businesses, that could mean tools that do more than generate text: they may increasingly be able to plan, act, and integrate with cloud systems across workflows.
OpenAI has not publicly disclosed the financial terms of the acquisition in the material provided, and it was not immediately clear when the transaction would close. What is clear is that the company is continuing to invest in the infrastructure and partnerships needed to turn AI agents from a technical promise into products that organizations can actually use.