- Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff abruptly ditched ChatGPT in favor of Google Gemini 3
- He made the switch after trying Gemini 3 for just two hours.
- Benioff called Gemini 3's speed, logic and multimodal capabilities a big step forward.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff fell head over heels Gemini 3 and publicly reset ChatGPT in progress. His announcement sent much of the AI world reeling. After just two hours of playing with Gemini 3, the leading enterprise software leader abandoned the world's most popular AI chatbot in favor of its fast-growing competitor.
Holy crap. I've been using ChatGPT every day for 3 years. Just spent 2 hours on Gemini 3. I won't be returning. The jump is crazy – reasoning, speed, images, video… everything became clearer and faster. It feels like the world has changed again. ❤️ 🤖 https://t.co/HruXhc16MqNovember 23, 2025
The post was not subtle. It was not cloaked in polite comparisons or neutral optimism. Not only did one of the most prominent business representatives in Silicon Valley move from OpenAI to Googlebut he also made it his mission to tell the world about it.
Gemini 3 received many other accolades for combining the latest advances from Google DeepMind into a single, unified architecture. Gemini 3 supports text, images, codeaudio and video in one interface. Gemini 3 is poised to take ChatGPT's artificial intelligence crown. chatbot in many ways.
While ChatGPT's ubiquity created a sense of inevitability, Benioff's message suggests that inevitability has an expiration date. Within hours, one of the most prominent evangelists escaped. This says more about the pace of AI evolution than any leaderboard or benchmark.
AI rivalry heats up
Benioff is not just an accidental pioneer. Salesforce has deeply integrated artificial intelligence into its products and business strategy. It was one of the first enterprise giants to partner with OpenAI on productivity tools built into customer experience software. When Benioff takes a personal leap like this, it carries with it the burden of corporate unity. And if Gemini 3 is now the model it uses by default, then the software around it may follow suit.
Gemini 3's strengths seem to match what high-frequency users like Benioff are looking for in terms of speed, reasoning, and flexibility. Google has made it clear that Gemini 3 was designed to be a flexible engine for both consumers and developers, capable of providing everything from help desk bots to video editing offerings. It's that breadth that may have tipped the scales for Benioff, whose workday likely involves switching between data sets, dashboards and dashboards at Silicon Valley warp speed.
This is a good reminder that the field of artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly competitive. There is a growing chorus of contenders trying to make your assistant an AI. For people who randomly log into ChatGPT from time to time, nothing should change overnight. But Benioff's public address offers a glimpse into how quickly even deep-rooted preferences can give way to the promise of better tools.
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