Day: November 24, 2025

• Salesforce’s CEO says he’s ditching ChatGPT for Google’s Gemini 3, calling the leap “insane.”
• Tech leaders, including Sam Altman and Andrej Karpathy, have praised Gemini 3’s early performance.
• Gemini 3’s launch cements Google’s push to reclaim the AI crown from OpenAI.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says he’s ditching OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Google’s newest AI model, Gemini 3 — calling it an “insane” leap forward in reasoning, speed, and multimodal capabilities.

“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.”

Benioff’s reaction quickly went viral, racking up more than one million views as of early Monday morning. It adds to a growing chorus of executives praising Google’s latest AI release.

Executives are lining up behind Gemini 3

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, Google’s biggest rival in the AI race, congratulated the company on Gemini 3’s launch, posting on X last week: “Looks like a great model.”

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.”

Stripe CEO Patrick Collison also weighed in, posting on X that Gemini 3 built an “interactive web page summarizing 10 breakthroughs in genetics,” which he called “pretty cool.”

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.

The AI arms race is heating up

Benioff’s endorsement is striking, given Salesforce’s deep partnerships across the AI landscape — including those with OpenAI and Anthropic — and underscores how rapidly preferences among top tech leaders are shifting as models get faster and better.

Google’s Gemini 3 arrives amid intensifying competition from OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4.5 Turbo and 5, as well as Anthropic’s Claude 3.5, each pushing boundaries in reasoning and tool use.

• Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke joins Apiiro as a strategic advisor.
• Apiiro helps organizations monitor and secure AI-generated software code and codebases.
• Dohmke aims to enhance protections as AI coding tools increase cybersecurity risks for companies.

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke stepped down a few months ago. He’s getting back into the arena now.

Dohmke was just tapped as a strategic advisor to Apiiro, a startup that helps organizations monitor the security of their apps and codebases.

He’ll focus on helping Apiiro develop new protections for AI-generated software code.

As more AI coding tools churn out code, there’s concern that this could make codebases more vulnerable to hacks and other cybersecurity risks.

Dohmke said developers now often use multiple AI coding agents, and these tools don’t necessarily know all the policies, rules, and safeguards that their employers have set up to ensure their codebases and broader technology offerings are secure.

Apiiro’s technology connects with companies’ code-management systems, providing this crucial context for AI code generation, he said.

“That’s the important part,” Dohmke added, adding that Apiiro can spot and automatically fix such issues in code, helping developers comply with company guidelines, while not piling on more work for them to do.

Apiiro has raised more than $100 million from investors, including General Catalyst, Greylock, and Kleiner Perkins. CEO Idan Plotnik has launched and sold other startups in the past and has served as a cybersecurity executive at Microsoft.

Dohmke also comes from Microsoft, which owns GitHub. He said he met Plotnik about three years ago and was taken by the CEO’s energy and Apiiro’s mission.

Of course, the former head of GitHub has a lot of choices for what to do next. And while Dohmke gets a portion of Apiiro for his advisory services, he said he’s more interested in what Apiiro is building.

As more employees use AI to develop digital products and prototypes, the startup’s technology should become even more useful, he said.

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