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Since when is AOG a well-known abbreviation?

I presume you mean Anthropic-OpenAI-Google?

probably trying to stop saying SOTA because that has some weird implication that's not warranted at this point.

What's that?

you can't say they're state of the art if we know that there are better models that they're not allowed to release to the public

thats independtly verified and not just a gold spraypaint on bloated models that are indifferentialable from open weights.