Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff declared that Google’s newly launched Gemini 3 has decisively overtaken ChatGPT, sparking a new wave of debate in the AI world.
In a post on X, Benioff said he has been using ChatGPT “every day for three years” but after spending two hours with Gemini 3 there was “no going back”, calling the leaps in inference, speed, images and video “insane”.
Benioff’s emphatic endorsement comes just as Google announced Gemini 3, its most powerful multimodal AI model to date, and Nano Banana Pro, an advanced image generation system built on top of it.
His comments immediately intensified comparisons between Google and OpenAI, two of the most high-profile AI rivalries.
According to Google, Gemini 3 significantly improves your ability to perform complex reasoning, multimodal understanding, and use tools. It integrates text, image, video, and code processing, positioning it as Google’s first truly general-purpose agent-based AI system across consumer and enterprise products.
In parallel, Google introduced Nano Banana Pro, a new image generation and editing model that promises studio-grade visuals, reliable text rendering, multilingual support, consistent brand style, and high-resolution (including 4K) output.
This model is already deployed in Google Workspace and Gemini apps, demonstrating Google’s commitment to connecting creative workflows directly to the AI ecosystem.
The announcement represents one of Google’s most aggressive bids to regain leadership in AI, especially as OpenAI continues to make rapid progress with its GPT-5 series. Benioff’s praise will add to that momentum and provide a rare public validation from a longtime power user of a competing AI system.
