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One of the most active ChatGPT users has turned his back on the service after three years of 'constant use', as one billionaire has his mind blown after using Google's Gemini AI for the very first time.
OpenAI achieved what many other tech companies wish they could have and simply got there first in the artificial intelligence race, and as a result millions of people across the world see the words 'ChatGPT' and 'AI' as synonymous.
It's the same way where many people called all games consoles 'Nintendos' for decades, and this has led to millions never trying any other service, either through a lack of awareness or lack of desire.
Why change when you're so familiar with what you're using after all? Unfortunately for OpenAI, one billionaire's experience might become more common in the near future, as he has shared why he switched away from ChatGPT despite using it 'every day for three years'.
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As reported by Fortune, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is one of the tech world's biggest ChatGPT cheerleaders, yet a trial for Google's new Gemini 3 AI model has prompted him to abandon the software he was so fond of using.
Writing in a viral post on X, Benioff declared: "Holy s***. 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."
It does signal a wider trend where people are discovering other AI products outside of what ChatGPT has to offer, especially as recent updates to OpenAI's model haven't exactly proved to be popular with large parts of the user base.
For example, many have been impressed – while simultaneously frightened – with Google's generative video offerings through Veo, and you'd have to be living under a rock on social media recently to avoid all of the discussion surrounding the dystopian potential of Nano Banana, the company's new image editing software.
That's not even counting what companies like Microsoft (Copilot), Anthropic (Claude), Meta, and Perplexity have to offer people who might want to try something a little different to ChatGPT, and if someone as dedicated as Benioff can make the switch then there's no limits for everyone else.
One user in the replies to Benioff's post suggests that the "best combo is Claude and Gemini now. Coding, editing Microsoft 365 docs, and writing use Claude. Deep research, search, learning (NotebookLM), design, images and video use Gemini."
