OpenAI is grappling with renewed competitive strain following the rapid rise of Google’s Gemini 3 , which has drawn widespread praise from industry leaders and rekindled questions about OpenAI’s position in the global AI race.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, long a devoted user of ChatGPT , publicly switched to Gemini late last month, calling the performance leap “insane” after just two hours of testing the new model.

When Gemini 3 launched in mid-November, Google shared evaluation results suggesting its model significantly outperformed OpenAI’s top offering. Analysts echoed this sentiment, with some calling Gemini 3 the strongest AI model available and declaring Google the frontrunner in the race. Inside OpenAI, the response has reportedly been urgent: CEO Sam Altman declared a “code

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