BREAKING: Iran's IRGC Navy declares the US-backed Omani alternative southern route for the Strait of Hormuz, announced yesterday, "unacceptable and completely dangerous," asserting that only routes announced by Iran are authorized for passage and warning that "violator vessels will be dealt with." The statement adds that every ship now attempting to pass through the southern route without coordination will be forced to stop and will be targeted, per Tasnim.
This directly rejects the US-backed Omani framework that tried to bypass Iran's sovereign control in the Strait of Hormuz by routing traffic along the Musandam Peninsula, with Iran asserting that any navigation outside routes it has announced is "strictly prohibited," and mandatory coordination via Channel 16 will be required for all passage.
Never forget, no matter how much you hate on Chinese models, you will never exceed the disdain Chinese people themselves have for them. True story
I have lost count of how many times I've heard from Chinese people "I only use Chinese models because I have to, they're hopeless"
And I'm clearly not the only one because Pingwest's @guixingren felt compelled to publish a post today titled "Stop bashing Chinese AI models. Foreign users are having a great time with them."
Here are the most highlighted portions, which you'll probably LOL at as I did:
"A further complication in China is that domestic models are judged against standards that don’t really exist elsewhere.
One standard treats them as a test of whether China has achieved genuine AI innovation. It’s not enough for a model to be useful or widely adopted; people immediately ask whether it was distilled, whether it is truly original, or whether it’s just following someone else’s lead.
The other standard is to compare every new model directly against the very best versions of Claude or GPT and ask why it isn’t the strongest model in the world.
Put those two expectations together, and questions like how many people use a model or whether it actually solves real problems often become secondary.
Chinese audiences also tend to be slower to recognize the significance of domestic models. DeepSeek is a good example. What really pushed it into the mainstream wasn’t domestic adoption, but the fact that it first climbed to the top of the U.S. App Store rankings and triggered a global debate about AI costs. Only after overseas users embraced it and international markets reacted did many people in China take a second look.
That pattern is not unusual. In many cases, the rest of the world starts using and discussing a Chinese technology before China itself fully appreciates what it has built."
/shrug