“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting,” wrote Chinese strategist and philosopher Sun Tzu in ‘The Art of War’. This is precisely what his countryman Liang Wenfeng did when he quietly released an AI model, DeepSeek R1 that jolted the world of AI and caused Nvidia to drop by $600bn in a single day. He did not go to war, quite the opposite; he open-sourced the model, publishing a detailed technical paper on how it was built and inviting the global AI community to build on top of it. His AI model landed in Silicon…