November 24, 2025
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has declared he is abandoning OpenAI’s ChatGPT in favour of Google’s newly released Gemini 3, marking a high-profile shift in the ongoing artificial intelligence arms race.
The tech billionaire took to social media platform X on Sunday to praise Google’s latest AI model, stating that a mere two-hour test drive was enough to end his three-year daily reliance on the Microsoft-backed competitor.
“Holy shit. I’ve used ChatGPT every day for 3 years. Just spent 2 hours on Gemini 3. I’m not going back,” Benioff wrote in a widely circulated post.
Benioff, whose company is a major player in enterprise software and recently launched its own “Agentforce” AI platform, highlighted the new model’s multimodal capabilities as the decisive factor.
“The leap is insane — reasoning, speed, images, video… everything is sharper and faster,” he wrote. “It feels like the world just changed, again.”
The endorsement represents a significant public win for Google, which has spent the last year fighting to reclaim its reputation as the industry leader against rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic. Gemini 3 is designed to handle complex tasks across different media types, processing text, code, audio, and video simultaneously.
Competitors and investors weigh in
Benioff was not the only tech leader to acknowledge Google’s resurgence. In a rare moment of cross-industry accord, competitors offered public praise for the new model.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, whose company ignited the current AI boom, posted a message of congratulations to Google on X.
“Congrats to Google on Gemini 3! Looks like a great model,” Altman wrote.
Tesla and xAI CEO Elon Musk also chimed in, replying to Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s announcement with a succinct “Congrats,” and telling Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis, “Nice work.”
Meanwhile, venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya, CEO of Social Capital, pointed to Google’s infrastructure as a key differentiator. In a post on X, he noted that Gemini 3 topped several technical benchmarks and highlighted the company’s reliance on its own custom chips rather than standard industry hardware.
“The key insight is Gemini 3 Pro was trained on Google’s own Tensor Processing Units (TPUs)… This gives Google a strong advantage over other firms that are in extreme competition for processing units,” Palihapitiya wrote.
Industry analysts suggest the public pivot by such a prominent tech executive like Benioff, coupled with begrudging respect from rivals, could signal a broader shift in enterprise preference as businesses look for models that offer better reasoning capabilities for complex work.
