Witness the spectacle of those American tech companies once snubbing China’s AI DeepSeek R1 now scrambling to embrace it. Giants like Microsoft, Amazon, Perplexity, and Dell are all integrating it into their services, for the simple reason of its cost-effectiveness and high performance. Yet, the earlier concerns over data security and government intervention seem like distant memories. It’s truly a ‘wall falls, everyone pushes’ scenario, with these US tech companies demonstrating a level of ‘flexibility’ that is nothing short of breathtaking.