That looks promising! As models become a commodity, this may turn out to be the real AI gold rush.

A question of course would be "is 15,000 tok/s Gemini better than 100 tok/s Opus 5"?

It's better for the billions of free users that Google serves.

Depends what you do. We have certain tasks we spend money on where Gemini 4.6 definitely is better than Opus 5.