Salesforce Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff, a prominent advocate for ChatGPT in Silicon Valley, declared on Sunday that he is discontinuing his use of OpenAI's chatbot following a short evaluation of Google's recently launched Gemini 3 model.
TL;DR
- Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is switching from ChatGPT to Google's Gemini 3.
- Benioff cited Gemini 3's superior reasoning, speed, images, and video capabilities.
- Gemini 3 quickly topped the LMArena leaderboard for AI system assessment.
- Other Silicon Valley leaders like Sam Altman and Andrej Karpathy also praised Gemini 3.
“Holy s—. I’ve used ChatGPT every day for 3 years. Just spent 2 hours on Gemini 3. I’m not going back,” Benioff wrote on X. “The leap is insane — reasoning, speed, images, video… everything is sharper and faster. It feels like the world just changed, again.”
Benioff, who boasts 1.1 million followers on X, saw his post viewed by over 3.2 million individuals by Tuesday morning, as reported by the social platform. His backing is significant not solely due to his fame—his estimated wealth stands at approximately $8.5 billion, according to Forbes—but also because of his firm's broad collaborations within the AI sector. Only last month, Salesforce announced an expanded strategic partnership with OpenAI, incorporating its Agentforce 360 system with ChatGPT and enabling businesses to leverage OpenAI’s GPT-5 models through Salesforce offerings.
At that moment, Benioff commended the partnership. “As consumers, we already get instant recommendations or insights from ChatGPT,” he said in October. “Now enterprises can deliver that same intelligence and immediacy.”
ChatGPT's rapid reversal, mirroring Google's Gemini, highlights the swift evolution of AI models, which are continuously surpassing each other in performance approximately every month.
Google’s big debut
Google and its DeepMind division released Gemini 3 last week, describing it as the company’s “most intelligent model, which “combines all of Gemini’s capabilities together so you can bring any idea to life.” The model nearly immediately topped the LMArena leaderboard, a collaborative benchmark designed to assess AI systems in areas like reasoning, coding, writing, and factual correctness.
Leaders across Silicon Valley took notice of Gemini’s big launch. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman congratulated Google on X, saying: “Congrats to Google on Gemini 3! Looks like a great model.” Andrej Karpathy, one of OpenAI’s co-founder and a former AI director at Tesla, said on X he had “a positive early impression” of the model, calling it “very solid daily driver potential” and “clearly a tier 1 LLM.” Stripe CEO Patrick Collison posted on X that Gemini 3 successfully built him an “interactive web page summarizing 10 breakthroughs in genetics,” which he called “pretty cool.”
Despite public praise, OpenAI exhibits internal apprehension. Prior to Gemini 3's debut and obtained by The Information, Altman communicated to staff in an internal document that they should anticipate “rough vibes,” and that “by all accounts, Google has been doing excellent work recently.” Was being introduced. He acknowledged that Google's advancements might “create some temporary economic headwinds for our company,”, yet he maintained that OpenAI holds “catching up fast.”.
The AI field has seen a surge of new models lately. OpenAI released GPT-5.1 just seven days prior to Google unveiling Gemini 3, with Anthropic just launched its Claude Opus 4.5 model making an announcement on Monday.