AI Weekly — 2026-09-04 to 2026-09-11 | Open-weight races collide with closed-frontier launches
> Two frontier tiers moved in opposite directions this week: open-weight releases pushed parameter counts and context windows into territory only closed labs could claim a quarter ago, while OpenAI's GPT-6 announcement and a fourth Anthropic security disclosure reminded buyers that the closed labs still own the integration cost and the threat surface that comes with it. ## Open-weight models cross into frontier-tier territory DeepSeek released V4.1 Flash with a 1M context window and an FP4 KV
