Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff tries Gemini 3 for 2 hours, says it is so good he is ditching ChatGPT

It’s just a week since Google released its latest and most powerful AI model, Gemini 3, and it’s already becoming a favorite AI model for many. Google is calling Gemini 3 a new era of intelligence, with the model reportedly beating strong competitors like OpenAI’s ChatGPT in various benchmarks, including LM Arena. And now this model is the favorite of Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff. According to Benioff he was so impressed with Gemini 3 that he is “not going back to ChatGPT.”

Benioff, who says he has used ChatGPT every single day for three years, shared his reaction in a post on X, praising Gemini 3 as a dramatic leap in reasoning, speed and multimodal performance. He described the experience as transformative, claiming the model “outpaces ChatGPT in reasoning, images and video” and delivers sharper, faster responses across formats. “I’ve used ChatGPT every day for 3 years. Just spent 2 hours on Gemini 3. I’m not going back. The leap is insane — reasoning, speed, images, video everything is sharper and faster. It feels like the world just changed, again.”

His remarks followed a hands-on session with Google’s flagship model, which merges advanced text, image and video processing into a single system. The post quickly drew millions of views and sparked lively discussion among developers, AI researchers and enterprise users. While many echoed Benioff’s enthusiasm, others pushed back, questioning whether any single model can truly leapfrog in a field that evolves this quickly. “The hype cycle is exhausting. Every model trains on the same benchmarks and improves incrementally every six months doesn’t this become a moot point?” one user replied.