Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, has praised Google’s latest AI model Gemini 3. He compared it to ChatGPT, saying he’ll be ditching OpenAI’s model for Gemini 3.
“Holy shit,” Benioff wrote on X on Sunday. “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.”
This reaction quickly went viral, racking up more than one million views as of early Monday morning.
Several other executives had previously praised Gemini 3. Sam Altman, CEO of rival OpenAI congratulated Google, saying “Looks like a great model,” via X. Former Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy said on X he had a “positive early impression” of Gemini 3, calling it “very solid daily driver potential” and “clearly a tier 1 LLM.”
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Stripe CEO Patrick Collison also said that Gemini 3 built “an interactive web page summarizing 10 breakthroughs in genetics,” which he called “pretty cool.” XAI and Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote “congrats,” in response to Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s post saying, “Geminiii,” adding two extra i’s to “Gemini.”
Google and its DeepMind division unveiled Gemini 3 last week, describing it in a blog post as their “most powerful agentic and vibe coding model yet,” capable of generating and understanding text, images, video, and code with tighter integration across the Google ecosystem.
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said that he believed Gemini 3 could seriously challenge the dominance of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. “We have to recognize that Gemini’s the biggest threat to ChatGPT we’ve seen so far. There’s simply no two ways about it — Gemini’s existential for OpenAI,” he said.
“The company, the emperor, better have…something to strike back, because otherwise the narrative will be that OpenAI has no clothes.”
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Cramer also said that the stakes in this business are huge, mentioning the large amounts of money is involved. Slower OpenAI growth would be a problem for both the company and its business partners, Cramer said. He pointed out that OpenAI has committed to spending about $1 trillion and it needs to keep growing rapidly in order to raise that money.
Cramer stressed that he wouldn’t completely write off OpenAI, saying it’s possible the company has a “revolutionary version of its own product” in the works. He also said the Gemini news isn’t necessarily terrible for Oracle, one of OpenAI’s major partners, because the data center builder has the ability to attract other customers and “doesn’t just live or die depending on OpenAI.”
“Still, if your business is hanging on ChatGPT, it just became more precarious,” Cramer said.