Inflated and misleading benchmark for 2.5 pro 0605?

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0605’s decreased performance issue seems to have been verified by:

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 deprecation notice

This news is quite disappointing. After conducting actual testing, our team found that the 06-05 version performs significantly worse than the 05-06 version, yet now the official team is planning to discontinue the better-performing 05-06 version. It’s frustrating to see that the version with superior performance in logical reasoning, text comprehension, and generation quality (05-06) is being phased out in favor of an inferior one (06-05). This seems like a step backward for users who rely on …