exactly ... Gemini 2.0 Flash ranks better on quality, is faster, and cheaper if you assume same pricing as 1.5 (might go down).
these models are being commoditized.
these models are being commoditized.
I have a task I use in my work where Gemini 1.5-Pro is SOTA. Handily beating o1, Sonnet-3.5, Gemini-exp and everyone else, very consistently and significantly.
The newer/bigger models are better at reasoning and especially coding, but there's plenty of tasks that have little overlap with those skills.