Salesforce's Marc Benioff says Google's Gemini 3 just blew past ChatGPT: 'I'm not going back' (www.businessinsider.com)

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff announced he’s abandoning ChatGPT in favor of Google’s newly released Gemini 3, calling the model’s jump in reasoning, speed and multimodal capabilities “insane” and tweeting “I’m not going back.” His reaction joined endorsements from industry figures — including OpenAI’s Sam Altman and ex-Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy — who praised Gemini 3’s early performance. Google and DeepMind describe Gemini 3 as their most powerful agentic and “vibe coding” model, with tighter integration across Google services and improved handling of text, images, video and code. The episode matters because it signals how quickly enterprise and executive preferences can shift as models improve: a high-profile migration from a company with existing OpenAI and Anthropic ties underscores commercial stakes in model performance and ecosystem lock‑in. Technically, Gemini 3 emphasizes faster reasoning, enhanced multimodal understanding and stronger agent/tool use — features that directly compete with OpenAI’s 4.5 Turbo/5 and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5. For the AI/ML community this highlights that marginal gains in latency, multimodal fusion and tool integration can drive adoption, shape partnerships, and accelerate the ongoing platform race between Google, OpenAI and other model providers.