OpenAI reports 2.5x usage growth for Codex; PrismML releases Bonsai 27B

This AI news roundup covers significant developments in coding agents, open model quantization, and multimodal systems during the week of July 13-14, 2026.

• OpenAI reported that usage of Codex + ChatGPT Work grew 2.5x in a week, with GPT-5.6 Sol demand described as "insane" by Sam Altman.
• PrismML released Bonsai 27B, based on Qwen 3.6 27B, offering compact variants at 5.9 GB and 3.9 GB while preserving multimodal agentic workflows.
• Tencent Hunyuan released 1-bit and 4-bit Hy3 models, including a 295B flagship-scale model servable on a single GPU via llama.cpp.
• OpenMOSS launched MOSS-VL-Realtime, an 11B vision-language model designed for continuous video streams with cross-attention architecture.
• Perplexity open-sourced WANDR, a 500-task benchmark for wide-and-deep agentic research that re-fetches cited pages to check claims against evidence.
• Sakana AI introduced "Smart Cellular Bricks" capable of self-repair and global shape inference without centralized control, scaling to over 18,000 cubes in simulation.