‘I don’t trust them..’: One of the biggest American investors says he cancelled corporate OpenAI subscription, names 3 better options

ChatGPT appears to be losing its ‘charm’ as prominent Silicon Valley figures are moving to adopt other AI solutions offered by companies like Google, Anthropic and Elon Musk’s xAI. One of the biggest American angel investors and entrepreneur, Jason Calacanis, has announced that he has officially cancelled his firm’s $10,000-a-year corporate subscription to OpenAI’s AI offering.Calacanis cited both performance stagnation and a lack of trust in how the company handles corporate data as the reasons for cancelling the subscription.“Cancelled our corporate OpenAI account today; We were spending ~ $10k a year,” Calacanis said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).“ChatGPT isn’t keeping up imo — and I don’t trust them with my corporate data. Long game, but I think ChatGPT is 4th place now,” added Calacanis, who is also an early-stage investor and co-host of the All-In podcast.While calling ChatGPT the forth option, Calacanis says there three AI chatbot models that are better than OpeAI’s offering. He praised xAI for its “real-time data”, Google Gemini for its travel, local information and YouTube integration; and Anthropic’s Claude for its prowess in handling corporate workflows.“xAI is better for real time data, Gemini is better for travel, local YouTube and Claude AI is much better for corporate (Cowork and Project features specifically),” he added.The move comes at a time of peak volatility in the AI sector, as Google’s newly released Gemini 3 has begin to erode OpenAI’s once-impenetrable market share, and Calacanis is not alone in his defection. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, a long-time daily user of ChatGPT, also announced a permanent move to Google’s Gemini 3 after a two-hour trial run.Soon after the launch of Gemini 3 last year, Benioff posted on X, “Holy shit. I’ve used ChatGPT every day for 3 years. Just spent 2 hours on Gemini 3. I’m not going back.” He described the leap in reasoning, speed, and multimodal capabilities as “insane”.“The leap is insane — reasoning, speed, images, video... everything is sharper and faster. It feels like the world just changed, again.,” he added.