Elon Musk's Grokipedia Launches as AI-Powered Wikipedia Alternative Amid Bias Controversies

Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points

On Monday, Elon Musk's xAI startup launched Grokipedia, which the billionaire is pitching as an AI-generated alternative to the crowdsourced encyclopedia Wikipedia. Musk first announced the project in late September on his social media platform X, saying it would be "a massive improvement over Wikipedia," and "a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe." Musk said last week that he had delayed the launch of Grokipedia because his team needed "to do more work to purge out the propaganda." When Grokipedia eventually dropped on Monday, WIRED was initially unable to access the website and received an automated message that it was blocked. When we finally got access to it, WIRED found that the online encyclopedia contained lengthy entries generated by AI. While many of the pages WIRED saw on launch day appeared fairly similar to Wikipedia in terms of tone and content, a number of notable Grokipedia entries denounced the mainstream media, highlighted conservative viewpoints, and sometimes perpetuated historical inaccuracies. The Grokipedia entry about the slavery of African Americans in the US includes a section outlining numerous "ideological justifications" made for slavery, including the "Shift from Necessary Evil to Positive Good." The end of the entry focuses on criticisms of The 1619 Project, which it says incorrectly framed "slavery as the central engine of the nation's political, economic, and cultural development." Entries for more recent historical events put conservative perspectives at the center. When WIRED searched for "gay marriage" in Grokipedia, no entry popped up, but one of the on-screen suggestions was for "gay pornography" instead. This entry in Grokipedia falsely states that the proliferation of porn exacerbated the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. "This marked the onset of what would become a devastating crisis disproportionately affecting gay male communities, where behaviors idealized in pornography -- such as unprotected receptive anal intercourse and multiple anonymous partners -- aligned directly with primary transmission routes, leading to rapid seroconversion rates," the Grokipedia entry claims. xAI did not immediately return a request for comment. The Grokipedia entry for "transgender" includes two mentions of "transgenderism," a term commonly used to denigrate trans people. The entry also refers to trans women as "biological males" who have "generated significant conflicts, primarily centered on risks to women's safety, privacy, and sex-based protections established to mitigate male-perpetrated violence." The opening section highlights social media as a potential "contagion" that is increasing the number of trans people.

Grokipedia is racist, transphobic, and loves Elon Musk

xAI's Wikipedia-like website offers a generous take on Musk's worldview. On Monday, a new online "encyclopedia" sputtered to life. Grokipedia is the brainchild of Elon Musk and his startup xAI, and the billionaire is promoting it as a supposedly less woke and less biased version of Wikipedia. Musk's goal? "The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." In both format and style, Grokipedia bears a striking resemblance to Wikipedia, albeit a very basic version. Entries are organized with headings, subheadings, citations, and a list of sources at the end. Each article also claims to have been fact-checked by Grok, xAI's AI chatbot, though it's not clear what this "fact-checking" involves. Also unclear is how the 885,279 entries, as currently listed on Grokipedia's homepage, are created and by what or whom. Much of the content on Grokipedia is also suspiciously similar to Wikipedia. In many cases, articles are practically -- and sometimes literally -- clones of their Wikipedia counterparts. But for entries tackling topics that jar with Musk's personal worldview, many articles take on a remarkably different tone. Here, Grokipedia abruptly veers into right-wing talking points, factual inaccuracies, critiques of mainstream media, and unfounded conspiracy theories. At times, Grokipedia is overtly racist and transphobic. Musk comes off alright, though. He and his businesses are often painted in a rosy light. A pattern plays out for other entries covering firmly settled science. On the Vaccines and autism page, Wikipedia states that "extensive investigation into vaccines and autism spectrum disorder has shown that there is no relationship between the two, causal or otherwise, and that vaccine ingredients do not cause autism" and notes the overwhelming "consensus that vaccines are safe" from scientists and medical bodies like the WHO, CDC, and FDA. Grokipedia is more circumspect. Its entry only rejects the idea that MMR vaccines cause autism, it lends credence to so-called vaccine-skeptical views by calling the idea a "hypothesis," and the sole mention of scientific consensus is to say how a recent CDC contract signals "sustained policy momentum despite opposition from mainstream scientific consensus bodies." For covid origins, Grokipedia again fails to acknowledge consensus and amplifies suggestions the virus was engineered, while Wikipedia repeatedly describes allegations of genome engineering as "misinformation or misrepresentations of scientific evidence." Similarly, Grokipedia's entry on climate change is another sign that Musk might inhabit a world with a more fungible concept of reality. As The Verge's Jay Peters notes, Grokipedia glosses over what Wikipedia says is a "nearly unanimous scientific consensus that the climate is warming and that this is caused by human activities" to, instead, highlight "heightened public alarm" caused by media and advocacy organizations like Greenpeace. These scientific Grokipedia entries read like twisted Wikipedia articles, but more political entries are a nastier departure. Grokipedia's entry for Transgender deploys the term "transgenderism" multiple times. Wikipedia, meanwhile, notes that the term "has come to be viewed as a pejorative." Unlike the Wikipedia entry for Chelsea Manning, the whistleblower and former US Army intelligence analyst who shared secret intelligence with WikiLeaks in 2010, the Grokipedia entry on her life deadnames and misgenders her at length. As spotted on Bluesky, Grokipedia's entry on Race and intelligence claims that science shows some races are more intelligent than others -- and even lists the so-called IQ scores of different races. Wikipedia's entry by the same name, meanwhile, points out that differences in IQ scores can't be explained by genetics. (Grokipedia writes that "the extent to which genetics contribute to between-group differences remains contentious.") The policy section of the Grokipedia entry also cites the pseudoscientific journal Mankind Quarterly, known for publishing "race science" and having ties to white nationalism. While Wikipedia calls the January 6th attack on the US Capitol an "attempted self-coup," Grokipedia's language about "widespread claims of voting irregularities" seemingly justifies the riot by President Donald Trump supporters, and downplays the violence by saying that "most" insurrectionists "carried no firearms and the incursion was cleared within hours." Wikipedia readers will learn, instead, that Congress itself found the riot to be an unsuccessful, but purposeful, part of Trump's plan to overturn the election. Wikipedia describes George Floyd as a Black man who was murdered by a white police officer in an event that set off a wave of nationwide protests against police brutality and racism. On Grokipedia, Floyd is best known for his criminal record, starting with a sentence that is difficult to read as anything other than intentionally racist: "George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 - May 25, 2020) was an American man with a lengthy criminal record including convictions for armed robbery, drug possession, and theft in Texas from 1997 to 2007." Readers don't learn that Floyd was murdered until the fourth sentence of Grokipedia's entry. The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, is notably absent from Grokipedia, which is odd given that Elon Musk ran the short-term quasi-government agency tasked by President Trump with supposedly eliminating waste in the federal government. (Grokipedia directs users to the Shiba Inu internet meme instead.) Wikipedia readers can learn about DOGE's role in mass layoffs of federal workers and dismantling long-standing federal agencies, despite DOGE's own unclear government authority. At least one person comes off very well: Musk. Grokipedia entries on him and his businesses feel like an editor has taken an airbrush to Wikipedia articles. There's no mention of his father's emerald interests in his Grokipedia biography, for example, downplaying his family wealth as "relative affluence." Wikipedia, meanwhile, makes three mentions of emeralds, excluding citations, and describes his family as "wealthy." It also references his grandfather having pro-Nazi and apartheid views, a detail that is absent on Grokipedia. His companies and their products fare better on Grokipedia. On the whole, they're significantly longer. The article on Optimus, Tesla's humanoid robot, is four times the length of its Wikipedia counterpart. Neuralink's article is triple, and Tesla's Cybertruck is almost double. The language is more flattering, too. The entry covering SpaceX makes no mention of Musk's failed efforts to acquire technology from Russia and paints its environmental problems in a much more favorable light than Wikipedia. Grokipedia's Cybertruck page barely mentions the litany of safety issues or recalls, instead criticizing the media for being biased against Tesla and focusing on outlier complaints, while the Optimus page pays far less attention to criticism over Musk's outlandish predictions, timelines, and hype.

Turns Out, Wikipedia Isn't That 'Woke' As Grokipedia Rips Off Most of Its Pages

Emily is an experienced reporter who covers cutting-edge tech, from AI and EVs to brain implants. She stays grounded by hiking and playing guitar. Don't miss out on our latest stories. Add PCMag as a preferred source on Google. The first version of Elon Musk's Grokipedia is now live, and although the billionaire says it's an unbiased version of Wikipedia (or "Wokepedia" as he described it last year), we found countless examples of his version simply ripping off entire Wikipedia pages word for word. "The goal here is to create an open source, comprehensive collection of all knowledge," Musk says. "Version 1.0 will be 10X better, but even at 0.1 it's better than Wikipedia [in my opinion]." Musk says he wants to etch Grokipedia pages into stone with a laser and launch the tablets into space "throughout the solar system" to "protect against a civilizational regressions." Most of the duplicate pages we found are not political, but they hint at how Grokipedia works. The company seems to have cloned a portion of Wikipedia's catalogue and edited certain pages. "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License," reads a disclaimer at the bottom of each Grokipedia page. Examples of cloned pages: * Nintendo Switch - Grokipedia, Wikipedia * MacBook Pro - Grokipedia, Wikipedia * Dora the Explorer (cartoon) - Grokipedia, Wikipedia * Hallmark Cards - Grokipedia, Wikipedia * Spatula - Grokipedia, Wikipedia Grokipedia's 885,279 English-language articles are AI-generated, which Musk advertises as a more neutral knowledge base. Wikipedia currently offers 7 million articles in over 340 languages. One difference is Grokipedia includes fewer citations at the bottom of the page. For the Nintendo Switch, it has 316 compared to Wikipedia's 522. For the MacBook Pro, it has just two, whereas Wikipedia has 142. Several Grokipedia pages that differ from Wikipedia's cover hot button issues. Grokipedia calls the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the US Capitol a "riot...amid widespread claims of voting irregularities." Meanwhile, Wikipedia's opening sentence refers to the event as "an attempted self-coup" after Trump's "defeat in the 2020 presidential election." Regarding George Floyd, Grokipedia introduces him as "an American man with a lengthy criminal record," while Wikipedia says he was a man "who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis." Those pages do not include the line about the content being adapted from Wikipedia. A spokesperson for Wikimedia, the nonprofit foundation that operates Wikipedia, tells us it's "still in the process of understanding how Grokipedia works." It reiterated that it is a nonprofit, and that its "knowledge is -- and always will be -- human." The "human-created knowledge" of Wikipedia "is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist," it adds. Wikimedia also re-tweeted a post by someone who changed a CNBC headline about Grok from "AI-powered" to "Wikipedia-powered." Currently, if you Google "Grokipedia," the Wikipedia entry for Musk's site is the first result (below a "Did you mean: wikipedia" Google prompt). It already notes that "Many [Grokipedia] articles are derived from Wikipedia articles, with some articles copied nearly verbatim." Grokipedia's Wikipedia entry says it "has encountered persistent criticisms regarding factual reliability, susceptibility to vandalism and hoaxes, and systemic ideological biases -- particularly a left-leaning slant in coverage of political figures and topics," which cites the Manhattan Institute, The Free Press, and the American Economic Association. Wikimedia's Full Statement: "We're still in the process of understanding how Grokipedia works. Since 2001, Wikipedia has been the backbone of knowledge on the internet. Hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, it remains the only top website in the world run by a nonprofit. Unlike newer projects, Wikipedia's strengths are clear: it has transparent policies, rigorous volunteer oversight, and a strong culture of continuous improvement. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, written to inform billions of readers without promoting a particular point of view. Wikipedia's knowledge is -- and always will be -- human. Through open collaboration and consensus, people from all backgrounds build a neutral, living record of human understanding -- one that reflects our diversity and collective curiosity. This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist. Wikipedia's nonprofit independence -- with no ads and no data-selling -- also sets it apart from for-profit alternatives. All of these strengths have kept Wikipedia a top trusted resource for more than two decades. Many experiments to create alternative versions of Wikipedia have happened before; it doesn't interfere with our work or mission. As we approach Wikipedia's 25th anniversary, Wikipedia will continue focusing on providing free, trustworthy knowledge built by its dedicated volunteer community. For more information about how Wikipedia works, visit our website and new blog series."

Grokipedia is such a mess even Grok thinks its untrustworthy

What do you do if you're the richest man on Earth and don't like Wikipedia? Start your own imitation encyclopedia, call it Grokipedia, lift a bunch of pages from the site, and let AI fill in the rest. Obviously, that's a recipe for success. Musk announced the launch of Grokipedia "version 0.1" on X Monday evening, qualifying any potential failures on the site as likely to be improved when version 1.0 eventually rolls around, "but even at 0.1 it's better than Wikipedia imo," the X-man opined. Unfortunately for Musk, it's hard to be better than Wikipedia when many of its 885,279 articles (around 12 percent of the English language Wikipedia's 7.08 million) are derived directly from Wikipedia pages. As pointed out by several commenters on Musk's X post, the phrase "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons" appears at the bottom of a number of Grokipedia pages. A Google site search of Grokipedia for pages containing that phrase returns several hits, and it's not an exhaustive list by any means, as several pages that show the phrase (MacBook Air, Crop Circle, etc.) don't appear in Google results. Beyond that, as The Verge points out, there are multiple pages that appear copied verbatim from their Wikipedia equivalents, which led Wikipedia to tell the publication that "even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist." We reached out to Wikimedia, but didn't hear back. Beyond simply copying content from Wikipedia, Grokipedia appears heavily dependent on using AI to generate slop pages that even its namesake AI bot isn't convinced are a fair representation of the facts. Asking Grok to point out logical fallacies in Grokipedia's page about Wikipedia, for example, leads Musk's own AI to say that Grokipedia was "cherry-picking evidence" about Wikipedia to amplify claims that Wikipedia had a left-wing bias, as Musk has claimed in the past. "The page is factually dense and cites sources ... but it exhibits biases through selective presentation of evidence and heavy reliance on a single critical voice, creating an unbalanced critical lens," Grok explained in response to our query. "The overall framing appeals to concerns about 'ideological capture,' potentially evoking emotional responses from readers skeptical of 'woke' institutions." In short, it's an AI slop machine that's less neutral in its presentation of facts than it is willing to endorse Musk's personal views - and that's after its launch was delayed by a week in order to, in Musk's words, "purge out the propaganda." But you don't need to take The Register's word as to whether Grokipedia is a fair and unbiased source of information: Even Elon Musk's own AI chatbot doesn't think it is. "Grokipedia is not a fair and unbiased source of information -- at least not in the neutral, encyclopedic sense that Wikipedia aspires to," Grok told us when asked whether Grokipedia was trustworthy. "It's a critique wearing encyclopedia clothing," the bot said. ®

Elon Musk's Grokipedia is a major own goal

Just when you thought he must have run out of fingers to stick into pies, the world's richest man goes and sprouts another one. This week Elon Musk proudly launched his latest venture -- not electric cars, not space exploration, not satellites, not tunnels, not social media, not brain implants, not the rolling back of the administrative state, not a new political party, but something altogether more fundamental: a new version of the truth. "The goal here is to create an open source, comprehensive collection of all knowledge," Musk posted on X on Tuesday, a day after his xAI company rolled out its first 0.1 version of Grokipedia, an AI-powered online encyclopedia. "Then place copies of that etched in a stable oxide in orbit, the Moon and Mars to preserve it for the future. Foundation." You know, because understandings of what is and isn't true -- and about how to capture the whole truth of a given subject -- have famously always just been the kind of straightforward, uncomplicated and static thing that's really well-suited to being etched on to something that cannot be changed and launched into space. Er, foundation. Musk, who has called Wikipedia, on which Grokipedia is modelled, "Wokepedia" and has described the site as "an extension of legacy media propaganda", demonstrates a facile understanding of human knowledge. After all, even our best approximations of what is true are constantly shifting, as new facts and developments emerge, and as the values that shape our understanding change. Does he have a point about some Wikipedia articles having a "liberal" or left-leaning bias that obscures or fails to provide a full and fair version of the truth, though? Yes. Just look up the "COVID-19 Lab leak theory" entry as an example. Despite the fact that two-thirds of Americans in a 2023 study by YouGov and the Economist said they believed the virus originated in a Chinese laboratory and not, as originally thought, a wet market, this is described in the second sentence as a "highly controversial" claim, while it is stated that "many scenarios proposed for a lab leak are characteristic of conspiracy theories" -- as if there were not legitimate and non-conspiratorial reasons for believing in it. Indeed, last month one of the website's two co-founders, Larry Sanger, wrote a long essay arguing that some of the standards that the site -- which uses thousands of volunteer editors -- was founded upon were being "sacrificed in favor of ideology", and suggested nine ways to fix it. But funnily enough, none of Sanger's suggestions included setting up an AI-powered, low-quality, barely readable Wikipedia rip-off with a peculiar penchant for Musk and his worldview. And yet that's what we have in the shape of Grokipedia. Go and have a poke around in it and you will see what I mean. You will find Tommy Robinson described as a "citizen journalist" in glowing terms in the very first sentence of his entry. You will see Elon Musk's 20lb weight loss highlighted in his entry as if that were important information, and you will find out that can be attributed to intermittent fasting (rather than to Mounjaro). You will read Kremlin talking points in the first paragraph of the entry on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, like the idea that the former is "denazifying" the latter. You might also be somewhat mystified -- given its purported role in propagating legacy media propaganda -- to find that, often, "content is adapted from Wikipedia". Instead of setting up a serious challenger to Wikipedia, Musk has scored a major own goal. Grokipedia demonstrates that, while humans might be highly imperfect, biased and tribal beings, they are still better than AI at getting to the truth (even when a majority of them have "liberal" biases) and it shows that, in a world in which stores of trust are so depleted, in which it's so hard to know what's real and what is fake, a site like Wikipedia is more important than ever. Even Grok, the xAI chatbot the new site is named after, told me that "while Grokipedia improves on specific Wikipedia flaws -- like verbose, overly critical entries on conservative topics -- its AI gatekeeping creates a centralised 'Musk's truth' filter, lacking Wikipedia's distributed checks", and that "it trades one set of biases for another, often with less accountability." Quite. But Musk's crusades will surely continue. Actually, I'm quite surprised he hasn't already set up his own AI-powered, tOtAlLy uNbIaSeD newspaper that automates all the wonderfully simple processes our industry has spent centuries honing, which he can then etch on to some stable oxide and propel into orbit too. Watch this (outer) space.

Can AI Articles Beat Wikipedia? Elon Musk's Grokipedia Is Here to Test It Out

When he's not battling bugs and robots in Helldivers 2, Michael is reporting on AI, satellites, cybersecurity, PCs, and tech policy. Don't miss out on our latest stories. Add PCMag as a preferred source on Google. Elon Musk's Wikipedia rival, Grokipedia, has launched as an early beta, offering over 885,000 articles on various topics -- all of it AI-generated. The English-focused encyclopedia site at Grokipedia.com is Musk's counter to Wikipedia, which the billionaire has attempted to defund because he thinks it suffers from a "woke" bias. To create Grokipedia, Musk's xAI startup leveraged the Grok AI chatbot to write and "fact-check" all the articles. The site currently contains 885,279 articles, which is approximately 12% of the English-language articles found on Wikipedia. It lacks images, however. The big question is Grokipedia's accuracy. Critics argue Musk is creating the site to push his own agenda over facts. The Grokipedia article for Musk, for example, contains no mention of his Nazi-like salute at a Trump inauguration event, which is included in his Wikipedia entry. Some topics differ in tone and approach compared with Wikipedia. For example, the Grokipedia Transgender article refers to it as "individuals whose self-perceived gender identity conflicts with their biological sex," adding that "this mismatch often manifests as gender dysphoria," and that social media may be causing its rise. Wikipedia defines transgender as a person who "has a gender identity different from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth." Meanwhile, the Grokipedia article for the Russian invasion of Ukraine cites Russian government websites several times, raising concerns about bias and Grok's ability to question credibility. In other cases, Grokipedia can rip off content from Wikipedia. We spotted this in the entry for PCMag, which appears to contain phrases that are identical to the Wikipedia article. Unlike the community-driven Wikipedia, we noticed that Grokipedia doesn't appear to allow users to submit edits. Musk, however, is promising "you will be able to ask Grok to add/modify/delete articles and it will either take the action or tell you it won't and why." In the meantime, the Tesla CEO has been retweeting users on X/Twitter who say they plan on using and linking to Grokipedia over Wikipedia in the future. Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who has been a vocal critic of the encyclopedia site, also tweeted: "The jury's still out as to whether [Grokipedia is] actually better than Wikipedia. But at this point I would have to say 'maybe'!" Musk plans on open-sourcing Grokipedia as well. "Version 1.0 will be 10X better, but even at 0.1 it's better than Wikipedia imo," Musk tweeted. But others are concerned Grokipedia will promote far-right talking points. On the topic of slavery in the US, Wired spotted Grokipedia publishing an entry titled "Ideological Justifications for Slavery," which also includes a section pushing back on The New York Times' Project 1619 to examine the consequences of slavery.

Elon Musk's AI-powered Wikipedia competitor goes live after a rocky launch

Musk said that launch was of an early version, with improvements expected to be made in following iterations. Elon Musk launched an early version of an AI-powered encyclopedia called 'Grokipedia' on Monday, with its website temporarily crashing before coming back online hours later. The new AI service, named after xAI's large language model Grok, has been promoted by Musk as an improved and less biased version of the popular free and web-based Wikipedia. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO announced last month that he was working on a Wikipedia rival after a suggestion from David Sacks, a fellow tech mogul who is serving as U.S. President Donald Trump administration's AI and crypto czar. Musk, who has endorsed Germany's far-right extremist party AfD, has previously lambasted Wikipedia as "woke" and criticized it for citing news outlets such as The New York Times and NPR as sources in many of its articles. In a post on X, Musk said that the launch was only "Grokipedia version 0.1," but that a later "version 1.0 will be 10X better." However, he argued the current version was better than Wikipedia. Reports and copies of the site on the web archive, The Way Back Machine, indicate the site was down for a few hours. The Grokipedia.com page features a search bar on a dark background and says it has logged 885,279 articles, which appear to be in a style reminiscent of Wikipedia. For comparison, the Wikipedia website said it had over 7 million articles on its English Wikipedia as of Tuesday. Wikipedia's articles are also written and edited by a community of volunteer writers and editors, while Grokipedia appears to be solely generated by AI.

Elon Musk launches Grokipedia to compete with online encyclopedia Wikipedia

Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia that the billionaire seeks to position as a rival to Wikipedia. Writing on social media, Musk said that "Grokipedia.com version 0.1 is now live" and promised that "Version 1.0 will be 10X better." Grokipedia's goal is " the "truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth," he said. Musk has previously criticized Wikipedia for being filled with "propaganda" and called for people to stop donating to the site. In September he announced that his artificial intelligence company xAI was working on Grokipedia. The Grokipedia site has a minimalist appearance with little beyond a search bar that users can type in queries. It states that it has 885,279 articles. Wikipedia, meanwhile, says it has more than 7 million articles in English. Like Wikipedia, users can search for articles on various topics such as Taylor Swift, the baseball World Series, or Buckingham Palace. While Wikipedia is written and edited by volunteers, it's unclear how exactly Grokipedia articles are put together. Reports suggest the site is powered by the same xAI model that underpins Musk's Grok chatbot, but some articles are seemingly adapted from Wikipedia. Grokipedia's entry on Wikipedia accuses the site of having "systemic ideological biases -- particularly a left-leaning slant in coverage of political figures and topics."

Elon Musk launches Grokipedia, an AI-written rival to Wikipedia

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Crystal ball: Grokipedia remains a work in progress - version 0.1, according to its homepage. Its future may depend not only on its technical accuracy but also on whether users accept its promise of "unbiased information" as anything more than another reflection of its creator's worldview. Elon Musk has introduced Grokipedia, a digital encyclopedia that relies on artificial intelligence rather than human editors to compile and update entries. The new platform, developed through his artificial intelligence company xAI, marks his most direct challenge yet to Wikipedia, a site written and curated by human volunteers that he has frequently accused of harboring political bias. Grokipedia went live at grokipedia.com on Monday afternoon with nearly 885,000 articles, though its debut was briefly interrupted by a site outage about an hour after launch. The interface mimics Wikipedia's format - a simple layout, a sparse logo, and a search bar - but many of its articles appear to reflect Musk's long-standing complaints about online information control. "The goal is to purge out propaganda," Musk wrote on X. In style, Grokipedia adopts the encyclopedic look familiar to internet users. In substance, however, early observers found notable differences. On subjects such as gender, for example, the site's language diverged sharply from Wikipedia's phrasing. Several entries, including those about public figures and contentious political subjects, mirrored positions Musk has publicly expressed. The encyclopedia appears to draw on the same language model that powers Grok, xAI's conversational chatbot integrated into X. That connection theoretically allows Grokipedia to reference ongoing discussions across X's user base, giving it access to current information at a speed unmatched by traditional editorial processes. However, that same reliance on AI generation opens the project to known risks. Grok itself has a record of missteps, including promoting conspiracy theories about "white genocide" in South Africa, generating antisemitic language, and crafting sexualized images of users without consent. Musk has attributed those incidents to coding errors and said corrective measures had been put in place. Whether the same technology can build a credible encyclopedia remains uncertain. Some entries already include factual errors. One profile inaccurately stated that Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy assumed "a more prominent role" in DOGE following Musk's departure, despite public records showing Ramaswamy left the organization around January 20, 2025, long before Musk left. Grokipedia cited BBC and Al Jazeera sources that contain no reference to the claim. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said last week that while he was curious about the new site, he doubted artificial intelligence could produce reliable encyclopedia entries. "AI language models aren't good enough to write encyclopedia articles," he told The Washington Post, citing the volume of errors and unverifiable claims such systems often create.

Elon Musk Challenges Wikipedia With His Own A.I. Encyclopedia

Elon Musk on Monday unveiled his own version of Wikipedia, the crowdsourced online encyclopedia, with entries edited by xAI, his artificial intelligence company. The new project, Grokipedia, would "purge out the propaganda" flooding Wikipedia, Mr. Musk claimed in a post on his social media site, X. Grokipedia, which briefly crashed after its launch Monday afternoon, tallied more than 800,000 A.I.-generated encyclopedia entries, compared with Wikipedia's nearly eight million human-written ones. Visitors to the website -- grokipedia.com -- were greeted with a bare-bones logo and a search bar that allowed them to query topics. An entry on Mr. Musk said his public persona "blends innovative visionary with irreverent provocateur" and featured details of his diet, noting his consumption of "occasional indulgences like morning donuts and multiple Diet Cokes daily." Grokipedia also has entries on OpenAI, a competitor of xAI, and political figures like President Trump and the New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. The new site adds to Mr. Musk's online media ecosystem, which coheres with his personal political views. On X, Mr. Musk has reinstated right-wing creators and allowed them to reach enormous audiences, and he has used X as a bully pulpit to drive government funding cuts. He has also tweaked xAI's chatbot, Grok, to lean further to the right. "The impulse to control knowledge is as old as knowledge itself," said Ryan McGrady, a senior research fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who studies encyclopedias and social media platforms. "Controlling what gets written is a way to gain or keep power." A representative for xAI did not respond to questions about Grokipedia or the outage. Wikipedia, which debuted almost 25 years ago, has faced increasing criticism from conservatives in recent months. Mr. Musk and his political allies have argued that the online encyclopedia is too "woke" and excludes conservative media outlets from its approved citations. Mr. Musk fiercely criticized the site in January, after the entry on him was edited to note that he had thrown his right arm stiffly into the air in front of him -- a gesture many onlookers quickly compared to a Nazi salute -- during a celebratory speech honoring Mr. Trump's inauguration. Mr. Musk has denied any meaning behind his gesture, something also included in the entry. "Since legacy media propaganda is considered a 'valid' source by Wikipedia, it naturally simply becomes an extension of legacy media propaganda!" he posted, calling for its donors to stop contributing to the site. Mr. Musk announced his intention to build a competing site this month. "Wikipedia has achieved a dominant position. I hope Grokipedia challenges it and is able to fix that," said David Sacks, the A.I. czar of the Trump administration and an investor in several of Mr. Musk's companies, in an episode of his podcast this month. "But the easier path might just be for Wikipedia to stop blackballing and censoring conservative publications, rather than having to rebuild that whole thing from scratch." Jimmy Wales, a Wikipedia co-founder, said in an interview that he did not think A.I. could replace the site's accuracy. He is leading an internal working group that is focused on promoting neutral points of view and developing guidelines to encourage academic research into potential biases on Wikipedia, he added. "I try to tease out what is the negative something in there that I could try to improve," Mr. Wales said of the critiques. "It's digging in and doing the work. That's the only thing I know how to do." Wikipedia already faces challenges as its entries are used to train A.I. systems, said representatives for the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that oversees the online encyclopedia. Visits to its website by humans have fallen 8 percent this year, while visits from automatic scrapers that A.I. companies use to harvest data have increased. A.I. summaries generated by search engines and chatbots are also stopping users from visiting Wikipedia. "People will take information they get from these tools at face value, and that information may or may not be correct," said Selena Deckelmann, the chief technology officer of the Wikimedia Foundation. "The value Wikipedia has provided for over a decade is that it lets people dig into the sources."

Elon Musk's Version of Wikipedia Is Live. Here's what the difference is

Grokipedia, Elon Musk's alternative to Wikipedia, sparked to life on Monday afternoon. Then it went dark again. Then it sparked to life again Monday evening. As of this writing, it is up. In terms of style, it looks like Wikipedia with its optional dark mode turned on. Based on a very brief review, it contains articles on most topics one would most easily expect in an encyclopedia, professing to have just under 900,000 in total. The website Wikicount says there are about 8 million English Wikipedia articles. There are gaps in Grokipedia, however. For instance, at the moment it does not currently appear to have a dedicated article about the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Musk announced that his AI company, xAI, was building an online encyclopedia late last month, saying it would be a "massive improvement over Wikipedia." The idea for Grokipedia was born during an appearance by Musk on the All-In Podcast. Host and fellow high net worth individual David Sacks asked Musk point blank to create it, noting that Wikipedia was "hyper-partisan" and full of "activists." Here are some comparisons between Wikipedia articles and Grokipedia articles. These are copied verbatim from the intros of articles with the footnotes and links removed for ease of reading: Nicholas Joseph Fuentes (born August 18, 1998) is an American far-right political commentator, activist and live streamer. He identifies as a Christian nationalist and part of the incel subculture. His views have been described as racist, white supremacist, misogynistic, homophobic, antisemitic, and Islamophobic. Furthermore, he has been described as a neo-Nazi and a Holocaust denier. His supporters are known as Groypers. Nicholas Joseph Fuentes (born August 18, 1998) is an American political commentator, live streamer, and activist who hosts the nightly internet program America First and organizes the annual America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC). A self-professed traditional Catholic, Fuentes advocates for policies centered on national sovereignty, including a moratorium on immigration, withdrawal from foreign entanglements, and preservation of America's historic European-descended majority. His rise began as a teenager supporting Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, after which he withdrew from Boston University amid threats following his attendance at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Title: "Great Replacement conspiracy theory" The Great Replacement (French: grand remplacement), also known as replacement theory or great replacement theory, is a debunked white nationalist far-right conspiracy theory coined by French author Renaud Camus. Camus' theory states that, with the complicity or cooperation of "replacist" elites, the ethnic French and white European populations at large are being demographically and culturally replaced by non-white peoplesâ€"especially from Muslim-majority countriesâ€"through mass migration, demographic growth and a drop in the birth rate of white Europeans. Since then, similar claims have been advanced in other national contexts, notably in the United States. Mainstream scholars have dismissed these claims of a conspiracy of "replacist" elites as rooted in a misunderstanding of demographic statistics and premised upon an unscientific, racist worldview. Title: "Great Replacement theory" The Great Replacement is a theory originated by French writer Renaud Camus in his 2011 essay Le Grand Remplacement, which contends that the historic populations of European nations are undergoing demographic substitution through sustained high levels of immigration from Africa and the Middle East, compounded by sub-replacement fertility rates among native Europeans (typically below 1.5 children per woman in most EU countries) and comparatively higher fertility among immigrant groups (often exceeding 2.0). Camus describes this process as an orchestrated "genocide by substitution," driven by elite policies favoring multiculturalism over national continuity, resulting in the erosion of indigenous cultural dominance without violent conflict. Empirical underpinnings include United Nations projections indicating that net migration will account for nearly all population stability or growth in Europe amid native decline, with foreign-born residents comprising nearly 10% of the EU population by 2024 and contributing disproportionately to birthsâ€"one-third or more in nations like Austria and Germany Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg (Swedish: [ˈɡreËta ˈtʉËnbÃ|rj]; born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish activist best known for pressuring governments to address climate change and social issues. She gained global attention in 2018, at age 15, after starting a solo school strike outside the Swedish parliament, which inspired the worldwide Fridays for Future movement. She has since broadened her focus to include human rights and global justice, voicing support for Ukraine, Palestine, Armenia, and Western Sahara. In 2025, Thunberg twice joined a humanitarian flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip. Thunberg has been credited with sparking the "Greta effect", influencing environmental awareness and youth engagement worldwide. She has received numerous honors, including inclusion in Time's 100 Most Influential People and being named Person of the Year in 2019. Greta Thunberg (born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish activist recognized for launching a solo school strike for climate action on 20 August 2018 outside the Swedish parliament in Stockholm, an action that catalyzed the international Fridays for Future movement involving millions of students protesting government inaction on climate change. Thunberg, diagnosed at age 11 or 12 with Asperger syndromeâ€"a form of autism spectrum disorderâ€"along with obsessive-compulsive disorder and selective mutism, has described these conditions as providing her with a focused "superpower" for advocacy. Her high-profile speeches at venues including the United Nations General Assembly and the World Economic Forum in Davos amplified calls for immediate emissions reductions and policy shifts, earning her Time magazine's Person of the Year designation in 2019 as the youngest recipient. While credited with elevating youth engagement on environmental issues, Thunberg's promotion of urgent, existential climate threats has drawn scrutiny for diverging from nuanced empirical assessments of climate risks and adaptation capacities, as well as for extending her activism into broader political arenas such as anti-capitalist and geopolitical protests. Overall, Grokipedia gives off the impression of a site where topics and people that Elon Musk likes or supports are presented without framings that cast any doubt on their validity, and those he dislikes are presented with criticism front-and-center. As others have pointed out, some articles are strikingly similar to Wikipedia's, and contain notes at the bottom saying they were adapted from Wikipedia under a ShareAlike 4.0 license, which would seem to indicate that those particular Grokipedia articles are also available to share freely. However, the url for Grokipedia is at the .com top-level domain, not the .org domain like Wikipedia. Grokipedia also mostly (or perhaps entirely) lacks photos and illustrations. It's understandable that biographical articles don't have portraits, but articles like "Tesseract" would benefit from clarifying illustrations and even animations, like on Wikipedia. Some Grokipedia articles are quite long and detailedâ€"long past the point of general interest. For instance, the article for Gizmodo, while seemingly accurate after a brief scan, seems like it would benefit from a human editor. Overall, the project seems very much like what it purports to be: a version of Wikipedia with articles written by Grok, a large language model that favors Elon Musk's views. Gizmodo reached out to xAI about all of this, asking for comment. That email received an immediate, three-word reply: "Legacy Media Lies." Â

Elon Musk launches Grokipedia, an AI-powered Wikipedia rival

Elon Musk speak to reporters on the South Lawn at the White House in March. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Elon Musk on Monday launched an early version of Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia written by AI that the billionaire is touting as a less biased alternative to the venerable online resource Wikipedia. When it first went live Monday afternoon, the site resembled Wikipedia in style and format, with articles on topics such as ChatGPT, Diane Keaton and the 2026 FIFA World Cup. But it appeared significantly smaller, more opaque in its workings -- and more right-leaning in how it framed some articles. Grokipedia's entry on gender, for instance, begins with the sentence: "Gender refers to the binary classification of humans as male or female based on biological sex...." Wikipedia's starts with: "Gender is the range of social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), woman (or girl), or third gender." The project is Musk's latest bid to harness Grok, the ChatGPT-like AI system developed by his company xAI, to offer right-leaning, freewheeling alternatives to popular mainstream tech tools. At launch, Grokipedia's homepage boasted that the site has about 885,000 articles, whereas the English-language Wikipedia has more than 8 million. The site went live on Monday without fanfare or explanation. A minimalist homepage bore the title "Grokipedia v0.1" and a search bar where users could type in queries. Musk and X did not immediately respond to The Washington Post's request for comment. Grokipedia's articles appear to be derived the same large language model that underlies the Grok chatbot on X, formerly Twitter, which Musk purchased and renamed in 2022. That could mean it has access, at least in theory, to the latest X posts from the site's hundreds of millions of users, which it can use to inform articles and keep them up-to-date. It could also make Grokipedia prone to the sort of high-profile gaffes that have dogged the Grok chatbot at times. Earlier this year, the bot began spouting a conspiracy theory about "white genocide" in South Africa in response to unrelated questions. In other instances, it has spewed antisemitic slurs, generated images that virtually "undressed" female X users, and confidently misdiagnosed an injury. (In each case, Musk or X blamed coding errors and eventually remedied the issue.) In 2017, Musk tweeted, "I love Wikipedia. Just gets better over time." But the billionaire entrepreneur soured on the site in recent years, taking issue at times with how its "Elon Musk" article portrayed him and accusing it of liberal bias as Musk's own politics grew more conservative. Earlier this year he tweeted: "Defund Wikipedia until balance is restored!" The owner of X and xAI has joined a chorus of right-leaning critics, including an ousted Wikipedia co-founder, who say the online encyclopedia -- which has a policy of remaining neutral on ideological debates -- too often holds up a liberal lens to hot-button issues such as climate science, vaccines and the Israel-Gaza conflict. Musk announced his intention to build Grokipedia on Sept. 29, in response to an X post from President Donald Trump's AI czar, Silicon Valley investor David Sacks, who called Wikipedia "hopelessly biased." Ahead of Grokipedia's launch, some observers said they expected it to draw heavily on Wikipedia for its content. "Every major AI system trains on Wikipedia's freely licensed knowledge," said Stephen Harrison, a journalist and author who has covered Wikipedia extensively, on Friday. "The irony is that Grokipedia will be built on the unpaid labor of the volunteer Wikipedia editors Musk has gone out of his way to vilify." In an interview with The Post last week, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said he would be curious to see Grokipedia when it launched but didn't have high expectations. AI language models "aren't good enough to write encyclopedia articles," Wales said. "There will be a lot of errors."

Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human

Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world's wealthiest man. I woke up restless and kind of hungover Sunday morning at 6 am and opened Reddit. Somewhere near the top was a post called "TIL in 2002 a cave diver committed suicide by stabbing himself during a cave diving trip near Split, Croatia. Due to the nature of his death, it was initially investigated as a homicide, but it was later revealed that he had done it while lost in the underwater cave to avoid the pain of drowning." The post linked to a Wikipedia page called "List of unusual deaths in the 21st century." I spent the next two hours falling into a Wikipedia rabbit hole, clicking through all manner of horrifying and difficult-to-imagine ways to die. A day later, I saw that Depths of Wikipedia, the incredible social media account run by Annie Rauwerda, had noted the entirely unsurprising fact that, behind the scenes, there had been robust conversation and debate by Wikipedia editors as to exactly what constitutes an "unusual" death, and that several previously listed "unusual" deaths had been deleted from the list for not being weird enough. For example: People who had been speared to death with beach umbrellas are "no longer an unusual or unique occurrence"; "hippos are extremely dangerous and very aggressive and there is nothing unusual about hippos killing people"; "mysterious circumstances doesn't mean her death itself was unusual." These are the types of edits and conversations that have collectively happened billions of times that make Wikipedia what it is, and which make it so human, so interesting, so useful. Wednesday, as part of his ongoing war against Wikipedia because he does not like his page, Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, a fully AI-generated "encyclopedia" that serves no one and nothing other than the ego of the world's richest man. As others have already pointed out, Grokipedia seeks to be a right wing, anti-woke Wikipedia competitor. But to even call it a Wikipedia competitor is to give the half-assed project too much credit. It is not a Wikipedia "competitor" at all. It is a fully robotic, heartless regurgitation machine that cynically and indiscriminately sucks up the work of humanity to serve the interests, protect the ego, amplify the viewpoints, and further enrich the world's wealthiest man. It is a totem of what Wikipedia could and would become if you were to strip all the humans out and hand it over to a robot; in that sense, Grokipedia is a useful warning because of the constant pressure and attacks by AI slop purveyors to push AI-generated content into Wikipedia. And it is only getting attention, of course, because Elon Musk does represent an actual threat to Wikipedia through his political power, wealth, and obsession with the website, as well as the fact that he owns a huge social media platform. One needs only spend a few minutes clicking around the launch version of Grokipedia to understand that it lacks the human touch that makes Wikipedia such a valuable resource. Besides often having a conservative slant and having the general hallmarks of AI writing, Grokipedia pages are overly long, poorly and confusingly organized, have no internal linking, have no photos, and are generally not written in a way that makes any sense. There is zero insight into how any of the articles were generated, how information was obtained and ordered, any edits that were made, no version history, etc. Grokipedia is, literally, simply a single black box LLM's version of an encyclopedia. There is a reason Wikipedia editors are called "editors" and it's because writing a useful encyclopedia entry does not mean "putting down random facts in no discernible order." To use an example I noticed from simply clicking around: The list of "notable people" in the Grokipedia entry for Baltimore begins with a disordered list of recent mayors, perhaps the least interesting but lowest hanging fruit type of data scraping about a place that could be done. On even the lowest of stakes Wikipedia pages, real humans with real taste and real thoughts and real perspectives discuss and debate the types of information that should be included in any given article, in what order it should be presented, and the specific language that should be used. They do this under a framework of byzantine rules that have been battle tested and debated through millions of edit wars, virtual community meetings, talk page discussions, conference meetings, inscrutable listservs which themselves have been informed by Wikimedia's "mission statement," the "Wikimedia values," its "founding principles" and policies and guidelines and tons of other stated and unstated rules, norms, processes and procedures. All of this behind-the-scenes legwork is essentially invisible to the user but is very serious business to the human editors building and protecting Wikipedia and its related projects (the high cultural barrier to entry for editors is also why it is difficult to find new editors for Wikipedia, and is something that the Wikipedia community is always discussing how they can fix without ruining the project). Any given Wikipedia page has been stress tested by actual humans who are discussing, for example, whether it's actually that unusual to get speared to death by a beach umbrella. Grokipedia, meanwhile, looks like what you would get if you told an LLM to go make an anti-woke encyclopedia, which is essentially exactly what Elon Musk did. As LLMs tend to do, some pages on Grokipedia leak part of its instructions. For example, a Grokipedia page on "Spanish Wikipedia" notes "Wait, no, can't cite Wiki," indicating that Grokipedia has been programmed to not link to Wikipedia. That entry does cite Wikimedia pages anyway, but in the "sources," those pages are not actually hyperlinked: I have no doubt that Grokipedia will fail, like other attempts to "compete" with Wikipedia or build an "alternative" to Wikipedia, the likes of which no one has heard of because the attempts were all so laughable and poorly participated in that they died almost immediately. Grokipedia isn't really a competitor at all, because it is everything that Wikipedia is not: It is not an encyclopedia, it is not transparent, it is not human, it is not a nonprofit, it is not collaborative or crowdsourced, in fact, it is not really edited at all. It is true that Wikipedia is under attack from both powerful political figures, the proliferation of AI, and related structural changes to discoverability and linking on the internet like AI summaries and knowledge panels. But Wikipedia has proven itself to be incredibly resilient because it is a project that specifically leans into the shared wisdom and collaboration of humanity, our shared weirdness and ways of processing information. That is something that an LLM will never be able to compete with.

What Wikipedia and Grokipedia are saying about each other

Elon Musk's Grokipedia encyclopedia is now online, challenging volunteer-edited Wikipedia with a new tool that incorporates Grok, the large language model chatbot developed by Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI. Musk is positioning Grokipedia as an alternative to Wikipedia, which he called "Wokepedia" in an X post last December. Musk has lofty ambitions for the new encyclopedia: His stated goal is to create "an open source, comprehensive collection of all knowledge." Critics and pundits are busy comparing the two sites and how they present a range of controversial topics. But we can also learn about some of their differences by asking a simple question: What do Wikipedia and Grokipedia say about each other? A search for "Wikipedia" on Grokipedia yielded 6,047 results early Wednesday, a number that reflects both the work that's gone into Grokipedia and the challenge of competing with an encyclopedia that's been growing for nearly 25 years. On Wikipedia, a search for "Grokipedia" returned 13 results. Meanwhile, two days after its Monday launch, a search for "Grokipedia" on Grokipedia did not return a dedicated entry. Instead, the eight search results ranged from a general entry about online encyclopedias to seven entries primarily about Wikipedia. Typing "grokipedia" into Grokipedia's URL to see if the new encyclopedia might have an entry that's not yet searchable returns a message: "This page doesn't exist ... yet." On its page about Wikipedia, Grokipedia says the site is renowned for its "unprecedented scale, accessibility, and role in democratizing information." But Grokipedia also says Wikipedia is the subject of "persistent criticisms regarding factual reliability, susceptibility to vandalism and hoaxes, and systemic ideological biases -- particularly a left-leaning slant in coverage of political figures and topics." The lengthy article uses forms of the word "bias" dozens of times. It alleges that Wikipedia suffers from "ideological skew" to the left, and states that the site's preference for a neutral point of view drawn from reliable sources can instead reinforce narratives that "align with institutional biases in academia and media." On its page about Grokipedia, Wikipedia says that Musk "positioned Grokipedia as an alternative to Wikipedia that would 'purge out the propaganda.'" It also notes that Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who has become a critic of the long-running encyclopedia, welcomed Grokipedia's arrival. The Wikipedia article about Grokipedia highlights criticisms of the new site, such as media reports that Grokipedia's article about Elon Musk omits mention of the controversy over a gesture he made earlier this year "which many viewed as resembling a Nazi salute." It also says critics allege Grokipedia promotes right-leaning views and relies too much on AI tools. Wikipedia also notes that Grokipedia seems to have pulled text from Wikipedia, stating, "Some articles are nearly identical to their Wikipedia entries." In some cases, Grokipedia duplicates Wikipedia content, as noted by media outlets and Wikipedia users. Grokipedia's page on "buttocks," for instance, is virtually a copy of the Wikipedia page (albeit without images). In that and similar cases, the articles acknowledge that their "content was adapted from Wikipedia." Musk said at the All-In Podcast conference in September that Grok was working to evaluate information from sources such as Wikipedia pages and then "rewrite the page to ... remove the falsehoods, correct the half-truths and add the missing context." Like Wikipedia, Grokipedia users can see an article's edit history. But while Wikipedia users can directly edit a story, Grokipedia offers tools to ask questions and submit a correction. "Wikipedia's knowledge is -- and always will be -- human," the Wikimedia Foundation said in a statement to NPR. Noting the site's ethos of open collaboration and consensus, it added, "This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist." Numbers rule the internet, and these two sites are fairly accurate about their rival's size, with some caveats. Wikipedia, for instance, says that Grokipedia had "about 900,000 AI-generated articles" as of Oct. 28. That same day, Grokipedia's site said it had 885,279 articles available -- a figure published on its landing page. The Wikipedia entry for Grokipedia didn't reference that precise number, and it cited an article from the Indian financial news site Moneycontrol instead of Grokipedia's data -- perhaps to capture a historical record of a figure that will be updated. An editor later updated the citation to point to an Axios article. Grokipedia accurately states that as of October 2025, Wikipedia had more than 7 million articles in English, in the main entry about its older rival. But further down that page, the entry muddies the water a bit by stating that Wikipedia had "over 6.8 million articles in English alone by October 2025." According to Wikipedia's running count on the Size of Wikipedia page, the English site had more than 6.9 million articles as of January 2025.

In Grok we don't trust: academics assess Elon Musk's AI-powered encyclopedia

From publishing falsehoods to pushing far-right ideology, Grokipedia gives chatroom comments equal status to research The eminent British historian Sir Richard Evans produced three expert witness reports for the libel trial involving the Holocaust denier David Irving, studied for a doctorate under the supervision of Theodore Zeldin, succeeded David Cannadine as Regius professor of history at Cambridge (a post endowed by Henry VIII) and supervised theses on Bismarck's social policy. That was some of what you could learn from Grokipedia, the AI-powered encyclopedia launched last week by the world's richest person, Elon Musk. The problem was, as Prof Evans discovered when he logged on to check his own entry, all these facts were false. It was part of a choppy start for humanity's latest attempt to corral the sum of human knowledge or, as Musk put it, create a compendium of "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" - all revealed through the magic of his Grok artificial intelligence model. When the multibillionaire switched on Grokipedia on Tuesday, he said it was "better than Wikipedia", or "Wokepedia" as his supporters call it, reflecting a view that the dominant online encyclopedia often reflects leftwing talking points. One post on X caught the triumphant mood among Musk's fans: "Elon just killed Wikipedia. Good riddance." But users found Grokipedia lifted large chunks from the website it intended to usurp, contained numerous factual errors and seemed to promote Musk's favoured rightwing talking points. In between posts on X promoting his creation, Musk this week declared "civil war in Britain is inevitable", called for the English "to ally with the hard men" such as the far-right agitator Tommy Robinson, and said only the far-right AfD party could "save Germany". Musk was so enamoured of his AI-encyclopedia he said he planned to one day etch the "comprehensive collection of all knowledge" into a stable oxide and "place copies ... in orbit, the moon and Mars to preserve it for the future". Evans, however, was discovering that Musk's use of AI to weigh and check facts was suffering a more earth-bound problem. "Chatroom contributions are given equal status with serious academic work," Evans, an expert on the Third Reich, told the Guardian, after being invited to test out Grokipedia. "AI just hoovers up everything." He noted its entry for Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and wartime munitions minister, repeated lies and distortions spread by Speer even though they had been corrected in a 2017 award-winning biography. The site's entry on the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, whose biography Evans wrote, claimed wrongly he experienced German hyperinflation in 1923, that he was an officer in the Royal Corps of Signals and didn't mention that he had been married twice, Evans said. The problem, said David Larsson Heidenblad, the deputy director of the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge in Sweden, was a clash of knowledge cultures. "We live in a moment where there is a growing belief that algorithmic aggregation is more trustworthy than human-to-human insight," Heidenblad said. "The Silicon Valley mindset is very different from the traditional scholarly approach. Its knowledge culture is very iterative where making mistakes is a feature, not a bug. By contrast, the academic world is about building trust over time and scholarship over long periods during which the illusion that you know everything cracks. Those are real knowledge processes." Grokipedia's arrival continues a centuries-old encyclopedia tradition from the 15th-century Chinese Yongle scrolls to the Encyclopédie, an engine for spreading controversial enlightenment views in 18th-century France. These were followed by the anglophone-centric Encyclopedia Britannica and, since 2001, the crowd-sourced Wikipedia. But Grokipedia is the first to be largely created by AI and this week a question swirled: who controls the truth when AIs, steered by powerful individuals, are holding the pen? "If it's Musk doing it then I am afraid of political manipulation," said the cultural historian Peter Burke, emeritus professor at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who in 2000 wrote A Social History of Knowledge since the time of Johannes Gutenberg's 15th-century printing press. "I am sure some of it will be overt to some readers, but the problem may be that other readers may miss it," Burke said. The anonymity of many encyclopedia entries often gave them "an air of authority it shouldn't have", he added. Andrew Dudfield, the head of AI at Full Fact, a UK-based factchecking organisation, said: "We really have to consider whether an AI-generated encyclopedia - a facsimile of reality, run through a filter - is a better proposition than any of the previous things that we have. It doesn't display the same transparency but it is asking for the same trust. It is not clear how far the human hand is involved, how far it is AI=generated and what content the AI was trained on. It is hard to place trust in something when you can't see how those choices are made." Musk had been encouraged to launch Grokipedia by, among others, Donald Trump's tech adviser, David Sacks, who complained Wikipedia was "hopelessly biased" and maintained by "an army of leftwing activists". Until as recently as 2021, Musk has supported Wikipedia, tweeting on its 20th birthday: "So glad you exist." But by October 2023 his antipathy towards the platform led him to offer £1bn "if they change their name to Dickipedia". Yet many of the 885,279 articles available on Grokipedia in its first week were lifted almost word for word from Wikipedia, including its entries on the PlayStation 5, the Ford Focus and Led Zeppelin. Others, however, differed significantly: Wikipedia responded coolly to the launch of Grokipedia, saying it was still trying to understand how Grokipedia worked. "Unlike newer projects, Wikipedia's strengths are clear," a spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation said. "It has transparent policies, rigorous volunteer oversight, and a strong culture of continuous improvement. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, written to inform billions of readers without promoting a particular point of view."

Elon Musk's Grokipedia is here, and it copies Wikipedia a lot

Elon Musk wanted to create a non-woke Wikipedia. His new Grokipedia just copies Wikipedia word-for-word. Credit: Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Elon Musk's answer to Wikipedia is now here. On Monday, Musk announced that his own online encyclopedia, Grokipedia, was now live. According to Musk, the current version of Grokipedia is only "version 0.1" but he claimed that it's already "better than Wikipedia." This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. Up until a few years ago, Elon Musk frequently shared links to Wikipedia entries on X, then known as Twitter. However, since he has taken a turn into far-right politics, Musk has become a major critic of Wikipedia, claiming it has a left-wing bias. He has recently started referring to the site as "Wokipedia" and has made calls to "defund" or stop donating to Wikimedia, the nonprofit that runs the platform. However, for supposedly being better than Wikipedia, Musk's Grokipedia appears to rip off a significant amount of content from it. For example, as The Verge noticed, the Grokipedia entry for the Sony video game console PlayStation 5 is a complete word-for-word copy of the Wikipedia entry for PlayStation 5. Musk's Grokipedia even copied and pasted the exact same table of contents for the different sections of the PlayStation 5 entry. Even the cited external sources are the same, although it appears Grokipedia has changed the order of how they're listed. Grokipedia did add one thing to its PlayStation 5 entry that's not found on the Wikipedia version. A disclaimer at the very bottom of the page, which admits that it "adapted" the content from Wikipedia. "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License," it reads. Because Wikipedia content is published under the Creative Commons public license, Grokipedia can republish its content under certain circumstances. The copying problem appears to be extensive. We used the plagiarism detection service Copyscape to check the Grokipedia entry for the Titanic, and Copyscape found that 18 percent of the page, or about 3,600 words, were copied word-for-word from Wikipedia. At the top of Grokipedia's entry, it contains this notice: "Fact-checked by Grok yesterday." That suggests that Grokipedia is intended more as a fact-checking tool than a genuine alternative to Wikipedia. Unlike Wikipedia, which has human editors who volunteer to contribute to the site, Musk's Grok AI is responsible for the content that gets posted on Grokipedia. And it seems that in many cases, Grok is just scraping Wikipedia entries in their entirety and pasting its contents on Grokipedia's own site. Social media users are continuing to discover numerous Grokipedia entries that are lifted directly from the corresponding Wikipedia entries, often with no changes. The Grokipedia entry for composer Franz Liszt? Plagiarized from Wikipedia. The Grokipedia entry for the Miller Effect? Copied sentence-by-sentence from the Wikipedia article. Grokipedia's page for the PC-98? Taken from Wikipedia. One Wikipedia contributor found their own contribution to an entry was copied line-for-line and published on Grokipedia. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. So, how does Grokipedia differ from the supposedly woke Wikipedia? Some of the more politically charged articles on Grokipedia appear to have been rewritten in order to add a right-leaning bent, but an enormous portion of Musk's Wikipedia alternative appears to just be Wikipedia itself.

Elon Musk's Grokipedia Extensively Copied From Wikipedia

Yesterday, Elon Musk's AI company xAI revealed what it calls Grokipedia: a competitor to Wikipedia, which Musk has criticized for being too "woke." Except, as The Verge reports, Grokipedia seems to be largely cribbed from Wikipedia, with many entries copied almost word for word from the online encyclopedia that Musk supposedly despises. Grokipedia's reliance on Wikipedia runs deep. Some pages even admit that their "content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License." Many, including the ones for common topics like Monday, Apple, and the PlayStation 5, appear to be almost exact copies of their Wikipedia counterparts. And where pages differ, the changes often seem to be ideological in nature. For instance, as The Verge points out, the climate change entry removed most of the instances of the word "unanimous" to describe the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activities are to blame for rising global temperatures. Or consider the entry for president Donald Trump -- who was once Musk's close ally -- which, as NBC News points out, makes no mention of Trump accepting an expensive jet from Qatar, a move widely characterized as a bribe, or his disastrous meme coin. It also shouldn't come as a surprise that Musk's entry fails to mention that he made several Nazi salutes at Donald Trump's post-inauguration celebration in January. Perhaps most egregiously, Wired noticed, a Grokipedia entry about slavery in the US contains a section pointing out "ideological justifications" for the enslavement of African Americans. Another entry links gay pornography to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Its differences from Wikipedia can even have a meta component, as when Grokipedia's entry on Wikipedia claims that it has a "left-leaning slant in coverage of political figures and topics." Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson Lauren Dickinson said in a widely shared statement that Grokipedia simply wouldn't exist if it weren't for Wikipedia. "Unlike newer projects, Wikipedia's strengths are clear: it has transparent policies, rigorous volunteer oversight, and a strong culture of continuous improvement," she wrote. Dickinson took aim at xAI's reliance on AI tech to collect knowledge on the internet. "Wikipedia's knowledge is -- and always will be -- human," she added. "Through open collaboration and consensus, people from all backgrounds build a neutral, living record of human understanding -- one that reflects our diversity and collective curiosity." "This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content," Dickinson wrote. "Even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist." While Wikipedia relies on volunteers to keep its entries up to date, the way Grokipedia's entries are created and updated is murky at best. Case in point: some of its articles feature an "edit" button -- but clicking it doesn't actually let users make changes.

Elon Musk's 'Grokipedia' cites Wikipedia as a source, even though it's the exact thing he's trying to replace because he thinks it's 'woke' | Fortune

Elon Musk has lambasted Wikipedia, calling it woke, supporting accusations of it having a left-wing bias, and arguing it's an "extension of mainstream media propaganda." So his AI company, xAI, developed a rival called Grokipedia, which ironically enough cites the online encyclopedia at the end of many of its articles. Grokipedia.com came online on Monday, and features 885,279 articles on the site as of Tuesday. The online encyclopedia is Musk's answer to what he's repeatedly called "Wokipedia," the popular free online source with over 7 million articles in English alone as of Tuesday. Wikipedia articles are maintained by volunteer writers and editors, while xAI's service uses AI to generate articles by pulling from different resources across the internet, one being Wikipedia. Musk, who founded xAI in 2023 and owns a majority share of the company, has promoted the AI-powered encyclopedia as a less-biased alternative to Wikipedia prior to its launch and a product that developers actively worked to "purge out the propaganda" from. He's previously taken issue with Wikipedia for referencing news outlets including The New York Times and NPR. The launch of Grokipedia marks its initial version 0.1, but a later version 1.0 "will be 10X better," Musk said in an X post on Monday. "But even at 0.1 it's better than Wikipedia imo [in my opinion]," Musk wrote. At the end of articles on Grokipedia, the reader gets a notice that the content was adapted by Wikipedia under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which is a content license that allows anyone to copy, distribute, adapt and build upon creative works including text, images and music -- even for commercial purposes -- as long as they provide proper attribution to the original creator. The "Share Alike" portion of the license means the creator that makes a new version of content under this license is agreeing to allow others to do the same to their content. xAI's large language model (LLM), Grok, which powers the new website, looks at a source of information like a Wikipedia page and determines "what is true, partially true or false, or missing," Musk said during the All-In Summit in September. In its answers to user prompts, Grok will "rewrite the page to remove the falsehoods, correct the half truths and add the missing context," he added. A 2024 report by the Manhattan Institute, a conservative-leaning public policy think tank in New York City, found trends that "constitute suggestive evidence of political bias in Wikipedia articles," including analysis finding that names of prominent left-leaning U.S. politicians tended to be used "with more positive sentiment than their right-leaning counterparts." "We want to acknowledge Wikipedia's significant and valuable role as a public resource," the study's authors wrote. "We hope this work inspires efforts to uphold and strengthen Wikipedia's principles of neutrality and impartiality." Fortune's request for comment from xAI prompted a seemingly automatic response that read: "Legacy Media lies."

Elon Musk's Grokipedia is here, hoping you'll ditch Wikipedia

Elon Musk's xAI rolls out Grokipedia. It's a bold, AI-powered encyclopedia built to challenge Wikipedia's reign. What's happened? As shared by Elon Musk on X, Grokipedia has officially launched under xAI, arriving as version 0.1 in October 2025. Musk positions it as an ambitious competitor to Wikipedia, aiming to correct what he sees as editorial bias and slow crowdsourced editing. The platform opened with roughly 885,000 articles and encountered initial bugs, yet was declared by Musk as a "massive improvement" over the original. The articles are generated and edited using xAI's chatbot Grok and LLM systems rather than relying solely on volunteer human editors. Some entries visibly note attribution to Wikipedia (e.g., "Adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0"), causing some users to raise questions about the originality. On launch day, Grokipedia's servers briefly crashed under demand, highlighting the scale challenge even at the early stage. Why this is important: Encyclopedias are no longer just reference books. Instead, they also feed AI models, shape search results, and influence public understanding. Grokipedia's arrival signals that who controls knowledge matters just as much as the knowledge itself. With Musk's backing, Grokipedia can influence the metadata and access layer of facts, especially if adopted by third-party services or integrated via Grok's APIs. The shift from volunteered content (Wikipedia) to AI-generated entries may redefine how accuracy, bias, and transparency are handled in digital knowledge bases. This launch has raised concerns among AI developers and the public regarding ownership of knowledge, the sourcing of training data, and the presentation of facts to users worldwide. Why should I care? Grokipedia could change where your quick facts come from, not just on the site itself, but anywhere Grok's summaries surface. You see, Wikipedia remains a heavily used, human-edited reference with citations and public revision histories. Grokipedia, by contrast, leans on AI-generated entries that are less transparent than Wikipedia around sourcing and editorial decisions, but faster to produce. Your next search result might come from Grokipedia instead of Wikipedia. That could affect the tone, sources, and framing of what you read. If Grokipedia becomes a common knowledge backend for chatbots, assistants, and search tools, you might see fewer human-edited citations and more model-generated summaries. If executed well, Grokipedia could offer a faster, more modern reference experience. But its expansion will depend on user uptake. Recommended Videos Additionally, Elon Musk says Grokipedia is fully open source, meaning anyone can use it for free and build on top of it. Editing entries is also quite simple: just highlight the text, tap "It's Wrong", and submit a correction. Okay, so what's next? Grokipedia is launching in Version 0.1, and even Elon Musk says Version 1.0 will be "10x better." That leaves a lot of room for growth, especially around sourcing transparency, verification, and moderation. Right now, the platform's biggest challenge isn't generating articles quickly, but convincing people they can trust AI-written reference content without obvious citations or talk-page equivalents. Over the coming months, key areas to watch include how xAI tackles accuracy disputes, handles bias, and integrates new media formats or deeper ties into Grok search. Features like visible sources, optional expert review, or Wikipedia-style revision logs could help reduce hallucinations and build confidence. Musk's promise is ambitious, though if Grokipedia can balance speed of response with reliability of content while it scales, it could become a valuable resource for a new audience.

Grokipedia, Elon Musk's challenge to Wikipedia, offers his own version of the truth

Billionaire Elon Musk this week launched Grokipedia, an online encyclopaedia aimed at challenging Wikipedia - which he considers too left-wing. Musk claims to be freeing knowledge from ideology, but the AI used to generate content for his new platform appears to have its own bias. Wikipedia aimed to make knowledge free to the public, but now Elon Musk is challenging that model. The US billionaire, who has repeatedly accused Wikipedia of left-wing bias, launched his own more "objective" online encyclopaedia, Grokipedia, on October 27. Founded in 2001, Wikipedia has become the largest free source of knowledge online, with editions in more than 300 languages that are written and updated by thousands of volunteer editors and contributors. It is funded by donations from online users. For Musk - and more broadly for US conservatives - this compendium of knowledge is no longer a resource for learning, but a bastion of "woke" thinking that must be torn down. In a post on his social media site X, Musk describes his new encyclopaedia as "purged of propaganda" - powered not by volunteers but by artificial intelligence. As its name suggests, Musk is relying on Grok - the AI chatbot integrated into the X social media platform - to produce content for his new online encyclopaedia. The Grokipedia project is a sign that Musk's ambitions extend to trying to impose an AI-generated version of the truth. Read moreMusk chatbot Grok says it was 'censored' after suspension from X over Gaza posts 'A machine for discrediting scientific and collaborative work' When Musk described his biography entry on Wikipedia as "insanely inaccurate" in 2019, his criticism seemed of little consequence. But the Tesla and SpaceX boss was already showing signs of questioning the validity of the collaborative model on which Wikipedia is based. Co-founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger nearly 25 years ago, Wikipedia had lofty aims. As Wales wrote: "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." Contrary to this open-source, collaborative view of knowledge, Musk advocates a hierarchical, technological approach, where knowledge is no longer built through human collaboration, but is "purified" through algorithms. In the case of Grokipedia, fact-checking is done by Grok, Musk's AI chatbot. Musk had become openly confrontational toward Wikipedia by 2023, accusing it of "taking public money to fund ideological propaganda". In a puerile move to discredit it, he offered the platform $1 billion to change its name to "Dickipedia". A year later, after buying the X social network in 2022, he asked his more than 200 million followers to stop donating to "Wokepedia", as he called the online encyclopaedia. Musk baselessly claimed that the Wikimedia Foundation - the non-profit that hosts Wikipedia - was "controlled by far-left activists" and slammed it for devoting nearly $50 million of its $177 million budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year to diversity, equity and inclusion policies. Read more100 posts a day: Who does Elon Musk target on X? In the summer of 2025, following a US presidential campaign during which he accused Wikipedia of misinformation and anti-conservative bias, Musk announced the launch of his own encyclopaedia. In interviews, he discussed his ambition to "purify knowledge" through technology, in contrast to the "human chaos" of Wikipedia. Not everyone is convinced. Musk's AI-based encyclopaedia "discredits scientific and collaborative work" said Anaïs Nony, a researcher on digital technologies and their impact on society at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. More than just a sign of Musk's antipathy to Wikipedia, Grokipedia epitomises the aim "to transition from collective knowledge to algorithm-driven knowledge", Nony says. The promise of 'purified' knowledge According to Musk, Grokipedia aims to produce "pure", objective knowledge, free from human passions and compromises. But Nony said that "rationality is created precisely by our relationships, by the way we confront reality and change things as we go along". "Wikipedia is an open system, while Musk's project is closed, omnipotent, above the crowd, god-like," she said. According to the Washington Post, several studies have examined potential liberal biases of Wikipedia. Some find it leans slightly to the left, while others place it in the centre in the context of US politics, and suggest that, over time, articles become more neutral thanks to revisions by contributors. "It is an encyclopaedia that relies on underlying sources, that gets fixed in real time, and that is constantly changing, and the sources are constantly changing," Maryana Iskander, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, told the Washington Post. "There's no bias on Wikipedia if one understands how it works." Read moreEurope's leaders have had enough of Musk's meddling, but can they stop him? When announcing the launch of Grokipedia, Musk repeatedly stated that "AI doesn't care about ideology, it cares about accuracy". But Nony explained that in the case of an online encyclopaedia powered by artificial intelligence, the idea of any kind of neutrality is completely illusory. "The design, deployment and functionality of a technology reflect the aspirations and values of its creator," she said. "There is no such thing as neutral technology, just as there is no such thing as neutral science. It is always biased." According to Nony, Musk is promoting a platform that cannot be modified by peers, which is the antithesis of what constitutes knowledge. "The very basis of knowledge is interpretation, dialogue with peers, and confronting false results in order to arrive at better ones," she said. The algorithms themselves have built-in standpoints "rooted in biases" including gender, race and class, she notes. In other words, AI systems reproduce the biases of the data on which they are trained. In Grok's case, these data sources come mainly from X and from an ideologically biased data set. "AI systems are neither autonomous nor rational, nor capable of discerning anything without intensive training in computation with large data sets or predefined rules and rewards," Australian researcher Kate Crawford noted in her book Atlas of AI. 'Neoliberal and colonial continuity' Nony says Musk's claims are part of his own ideological crusade. "Saying that Wikipedia is 'woke' and 'biased' is just an excuse," said Nony, arguing that the billionaire was using it as a pretext "to promote neoliberal, highly patriarchal ideologies and divide along racial lines". Musk is looking into "rewriting history and sociology - but without sociologists and historians". Instead of filtering information, Musk's Grokipedia is cleansing it, with the algorithm becoming a new invisible editor, serving the worldview he promotes. According to Wired magazine, which had access to Grokipedia on Monday, "a number of notable entries denounced the mainstream media, promoted conservative viewpoints and sometimes perpetuated historical inaccuracies". Wired noted that the Grokipedia entry about the slavery of African Americans "includes a section outlining numerous 'ideological justifications' made for slavery" . Wired said it searched for "gay marriage" and found that no page existed on the subject. Instead, Grokipedia suggested consulting a page on "gay pornography", in which it "falsely states that the proliferation of porn exacerbated the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s". Watch moreMusk's Grok falsely accuses police of spreading disinformation about far-right rally in London Crawford noted in her book that "artificial intelligence as we know it depends entirely on a much broader set of political and social structures". "And because of the capital required to build large-scale AI and the ways of seeing that it optimises, AI systems are ultimately designed to serve existing dominant interests," she wrote. In the case of Grokipedia, "Elon Musk's project is part of the neoliberal and colonial continuity of what had already been started with Starlink satellites and later with social network X," Nony said. "The idea is, in one case, to secure a kind of hegemony of Internet access on the planet in order to create dependency. And in the other, to create a machine to propel the Musk-Trump ideology." At a time when the far right accuses universities of indoctrination, the mainstream media of promoting "fake news" and scientific institutions for being "captured by wokism" - and now Wikipedia denounced for "leftist bias" - Grokipedia seems to be just another Orwellian tool for controlling "truth". And in this new era of algorithm-driven knowledge, knowledge is no longer shared - it is owned.

Elon Musk's 'Grokipedia' Is Certainly No Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a treasured online resource that, despite massive changes across the web, has managed to remained truly great to this day. I, alongside millions of other users, visit the site daily to learn something new or double-check existing knowledge. In an age of non-stop AI slop, Wikipedia is something of an antidote. If you look at Wikipedia and think "this is alright, but an AI version would be a lot better," you might just be Elon Musk. Musk's AI company, xAI, just launched Grokipedia -- yes, that really is its name -- an online encyclopedia that closely resembles Wikipedia in name and surface-level appearance. But under the hood, the two could hardly be any more different. Though it's early days for the new "encyclopedia," I'd say it's not worth using, at least not for anything real. When you load up the Grokipedia website, it looks fairly standard. You see the Grokipedia name, alongside the version number (v0.1, at the time of writing), alongside a search bar and an "Articles Available" counter (885,279). Searching for an article too is basic: You type in a query, and a list of available articles appears for you to select from. Once you pull up an article, it looks like Wikipedia, only extremely basic: There are no images, only text, though you can use the sidebar to jump between sections of the article. You'll also find sources, noted by numbers, which correspond to the References portion at the bottom of each article. The key difference between Grokipedia and a simple version of Wikipedia, however, is that these articles are not written and edited by real people. Instead, each article is generated and "fact-checked" by Grok, xAI's large language model (LLM). LLMs are able to generate large amounts of text in short periods of time, and include sources for where they pull their information, which might make the pitch for Grokipedia sound great to some. However, LLMs also have a tendency to hallucinate, or, in other words, make things up. Sometimes, the sources the AI is pulling from are unreliable or facetious; other times, the AI takes it upon itself to "lie," and generate text that simply isn't true. In both cases, the information cannot be trusted, especially not at face value, which is why it's troubling to see much of the experience is entirely powered by Grok, without human intervention. Musk is pitching Grokipedia as a "massive improvement" over Wikipedia, which he has criticized for pushing propaganda, particularly towards left-leaning ideas and politics. It's ironic, then, that some of these Grokipedia entries are themselves pulling from Wikipedia. As The Verge's Jay Peters highlights, articles like MacBook Air note the following at the bottom: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License." What's more, Peters found that some Grokipedia articles, such as PlayStation 5 and the Lincoln Mark VIII, are almost one-to-one copies of the corresponding articles on Wikipedia. If you've followed Musk's politics and political activities in recent years, it won't surprise you to learn he falls on the right-wing side of the political spectrum. That might give pause to anyone who considers using Grokipedia as an unbiased source of information, especially as Musk has continuously retooled Grok to generate responses more favorable to right-wing opinions. Critics like Musk claim Wikipedia is biased towards the left, but Grokipedia is entirely produced by an AI model with an abject bias. You'll see that you have very different experiences when reading certain topics across Wikipedia and Grokipedia. Wikipedia's Tylenol article, for example, reads the following: In 2025, Donald Trump made several statements about a controversial and unproven connection between autism and Tylenol. These statements, about the connection between Tylenol during pregnancy and autism, are based on unreliable sources without scientific evidence. Compare that to Grokipedia, which devotes three paragraphs to the subject, the first of which begins: Multiple observational studies and meta-analyses have identified associations between prenatal exposure to acetaminophen (the active ingredient in Tylenol) and increased risks of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) in offspring, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). That said, the second paragraph highlights some of the issues with those studies, while the third highlights that certain agencies suggest the "benefits outweigh unproven risks." Similarly, as spotted by WIRED, Grokipedia's article, Transgender, highlights the belief that social media may have acted as a "contagion" to the rise in transgender identification. Not only is that a common right-wing assertion, that particular word could have been plucked from a post from a right-wing X account. Wikipedia's article, as you might expect, does not entertain the claim at all. Grokipedia is also favorable to unproven, controversial, or flat-out absurd claims. As Rolling Stone highlights, it refers to "Pizzagate," a conspiracy theory that lead to a real-life shooting, as "allegations," a "hypothesis," and a "narrative." Grokipedia gives credence to "Great Replacement," a racist theory floated by white supremacists. Here's the short answer: no. The issue I have with Grokipedia is two-fold: First, no encyclopedia is going to be reliable when it is almost entirely created by AI models. Sure, some of the information may be accurate, and it's great you can see the sources the bot is using, but when the risk of hallucination is baked into the technology with no way around it, choosing to avoid human intervention en masse all but ensures inaccuracies will plague much of Grokipedia's knowledge base. As if that wasn't enough, this Grokipedia is built on an LLM that Musk is openly tinkering with to generate results that more closely align with his worldview, and the worldview of one particular political ideology. Hallucination and bias -- just the ingredients you need for an encyclopedia. The thing about Wikipedia is it's written and edited by humans. Those humans can hold other human writers accountable, adding new information when it becomes available and correcting mistakes when they encounter them. Perhaps it's frustrating to read that your favorite health and human services secretary "promoted vaccine misinformation and public-health conspiracy theories," but that's the objective, scientific reality. Removing these objective descriptions, and reframing the discussion in a way that fits a warped worldview doesn't make Grokipedia better than Wikipedia -- it makes it useless.

Elon Musk's takes on Wikipedia with AI-powered Grokipedia

US tech billionaire Elon Musk launched an AI-powered encyclopedia, Grokipedia. But it got off to a rocky start. Elon Musk wants to expand his range of AI products and on Tuesday launched 'Grokipedia', an AI-powered encyclopedia. Musk's company xAI, wants to offer an alternative and what he calls a less biased version of Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia to date. At the launch, Musk announced on the X platform that, in his opinion, the 0.1 version of Grokipedia is already better than Wikipedia. However, the website temporarily crashed before coming back online hours later. The tech billionaire said on X that Grokipedia is completely open source, meaning anyone can use the application free of charge for any purpose, like Wikipedia. If you want to use Musk's new online encyclopedia, you will reach a homepage with a large search bar, similar to Google. You can set the colour mode and create your own account. The homepage also shows that there are currently around 885,200 articles on Grokipedia. If you enter a search term, you land on a page that resembles Wikipedia both visually and in terms of content: with headings, chapters and references. So far, there are no images. In terms of content, the system is based on existing sources, such as Wikipedia itself. In the case of technical topics in particular, entire paragraphs are taken over, as users note in comparisons. Unlike Wikipedia, entries cannot be edited or corrected by the users themselves. A feature that the Wikimedia Foundation also doubts. "Wikipedia is not owned by a company, but is independent and is supported by thousands of volunteers who have a great sense of responsibility for their project," said Franziska Heine, Managing Director of Wikimedia Germany. The organisation describes Wikipedia as "radically transparent". Everyone can understand where the knowledge comes from and what editing has taken place. This creates trust. Elon Musk's new encyclopaedia is also intended to be a counter-design. The tech billionaire has repeatedly emphasised that Wikipedia is not objective and has a left-wing political bias. The Wikimedia Foundation commented on a possible bias, stating that numerous investigations over 25 years had found no reliable evidence or proof of this. "Wikipedia is not perfect - but it is and remains the largest freely accessible and transparent source of reliable and verifiable knowledge," the press release continues. Instead, Grokimedia wants to ensure greater neutrality with its own built-in fact check - similar to Grok for Platform X. The sources used by these AI applications and how exactly the fact check works have not yet been made public. AI software is also known for so-called hallucinations. This means that large language models such as ChatGPT - the chatbot from OpenAI - invent plausible-sounding information.

Elon Musk launches Grokipedia as an alternative to 'woke' Wikipedia

Grokipedia is a creation of Musk's AI chatbot, Grok. Human volunteers write and edit articles for Wikipedia. Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Monday launched an online encyclopedia, named Grokipedia, that he said was fueled by artificial intelligence and designed to be closer to his conservative political views than the leading alternative, Wikipedia. Musk announced last month that he was working on a Wikipedia rival after a suggestion from David Sacks, a friend and fellow tech investor who is the Trump administration's AI and crypto czar. Musk has described the project in political terms, attacking Wikipedia as "woke" and criticizing it for citing news outlets such as The New York Times and NPR as sources in many of its articles. Musk said on X that an AI-generated encyclopedia would be "super important for civilization" and a necessary step toward "understanding the Universe." Grokipedia's operation differs from Wikipedia in at least one major respect: no clear human authors. While volunteers write and edit Wikipedia, often anonymously, Grokipedia says that its articles were "fact-checked" by Grok, the AI chatbot from Musk's startup xAI. Visitors to Grokipedia cannot make edits, though they can suggest edits via a pop-up form for reporting wrong information. At least initially, some Grokipedia entries say they are based on Wikipedia itself. "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License," a disclaimer says on the bottom of some, but not all, entries, including the one for the Nobel Prize in physics. There are some content differences between Grokipedia and Wikipedia. Grokipedia's entry for President Donald Trump, for example, includes no mention of Trump accepting a luxury megajet from Qatar or his promotion of a Trump-themed cryptocurrency token, or meme coin, while Wikipedia's entry for Trump includes a section dedicated to conflicts of interests -- including both the jet and the meme coin. The Grokipedia entry for Musk includes no mention of his hand gesture at a rally in January that was viewed by many historians and politicians as a Nazi salute, while the Wikipedia entry for him has several paragraphs on the subject. The Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, said Monday that it was in the process of understanding how Grokipedia works. "Wikipedia's knowledge is -- and always will be -- human," the foundation said in a statement. "Through open collaboration and consensus, people from all backgrounds build a neutral, living record of human understanding -- one that reflects our diversity and collective curiosity. This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist." The statement continued: "Many experiments to create alternative versions of Wikipedia have happened before; it doesn't interfere with our work or mission." The Grokipedia project pits the world's wealthiest person, Musk, against one of the internet's most-visited websites, Wikipedia. Wikipedia ranks No. 9 worldwide in visits, according to data firm Similarweb, dwarfing older rivals such as Encyclopedia Britannica. Wikipedia also represents an earlier, democratic vision for the open web, before giant tech platforms came to dominate and segment the internet. Founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, Wikipedia has remained a nonprofit with free content fueled mainly by enthusiasts. It's also ad-free. Sanger, though, has for years been a critic of how Wikipedia operates, in particular its use of anonymous editors and what he views as a left-wing slant. Last month, he repeated his criticisms in an interview with online conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson, which Sacks then shared on X. Sacks and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Wikipedia says it has 7.1 million articles in English, while Grokipedia says it has 885,000 articles initially available. Grokipedia is labeled, though, as version 0.1, indicating many more updates to come.

Elon Musk launches encyclopedia 'fact-checked' by AI and aligning with rightwing views

Grokipedia's entries hew closely to conservative talking points, with some journalists already saying it contains inaccurate information Elon Musk has launched an online encyclopedia named Grokipedia that he said relied on artificial intelligence and would align more with his rightwing views than Wikipedia, though many of its articles say they are based on Wikipedia itself. Calling an AI encyclopedia "super important for civilization", Musk had been planning the Wikipedia rival for at least a month. Grokipedia does not have human authors, unlike Wikipedia, which is written and edited by volunteers in a transparent process. Grokipedia said it is "fact-checked" by Grok, Musk's AI chatbot. Musk said the idea was suggested by Trump administration's AI and cryptocurrency czar David Sacks. Musk has frequently attacked Wikipedia for citing reporting by the New York Times and NPR, and regularly lambasts what he calls the "mainstream media" in an effort to encourage people to rely on X, formerly Twitter, the social media site he owns and which he has programmed to encourage the domination of conservative and far-right voices, including his own. Grokipedia's entries appear to hew closely to conservative talking points. For example, its entry for the January 6 insurrection on the Capitol cites "widespread claims of voting irregularities" - a lie pushed by Trump and his allies to delegitimize Joe Biden's victory in 2020 - and downplays Trump's own role in inciting the riot. It adds that the events of January 6 have "fueled enduring disputes over its nature - ranging from a legitimate expression of grievances against perceived electoral flaws to a premeditated threat to democratic transfer of power - with mainstream accounts often amplifying casualty figures and intent beyond forensic evidence while downplaying antecedent failures in election oversight and riot containment". Some journalists have already accused Grokipedia of pushing inaccurate information, such as claiming that pornography made the Aids epidemic worse.

Elon Musk's latest venture is less an encyclopedia than an algorithmic mirror of one man's ideology

The result is less an encyclopedia than an algorithmic mirror of one man's ideology. A digital monument to self-confidence so unbounded that it might make a Bond villain blush. Wikipedia remains one of humanity's most extraordinary collective achievements: a global, volunteer-driven repository of knowledge, constantly refined through debate and consensus. Its imperfections are human, visible, and correctable. You can see who edited what, when, and why. Grokipedia is its antithesis. It replaces deliberation with automation, transparency with opacity, and pluralism with personality. Its "editors" are algorithms trained under Musk's direction, generating rewritten entries that emphasize his favorite narratives and downplay those he disputes. It is a masterclass in how not to make an encyclopedia, a warning against confusing speed with wisdom. In Grokipedia, Musk has done what AI enables too easily: colonize collective knowledge. He has taken a shared human effort, open, transparent, and collaborative, and automated it into something centralized, curated, and unaccountable. And he has done so doing the absolute minimum that the Wikipedia copyleft license requires, in extremely small print, in a place where nobody can see it.

Elon Musk launches Grokipedia to compete with online encyclopedia Wikipedia

Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia that the billionaire seeks to position as a rival to Wikipedia Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia that the billionaire seeks to position as a rival to Wikipedia. Writing on social media, Musk said that Grokipedia.com is "now live" and its goal is the "truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." Musk has previously criticized Wikipedia for being filled with "propaganda" and called for people to stop donating to the site, which is run by a nonprofit. In September he announced that his artificial intelligence company xAI was working on Grokipedia. The Grokipedia site has a minimalist appearance with little beyond a search bar where users can type in queries. It states that it has 885,279 articles. Wikipedia, meanwhile, says it has more than 7 million articles in English. Like Wikipedia, users can search for articles on various topics such as Taylor Swift, the baseball World Series, or Buckingham Palace. While Wikipedia is written and edited by volunteers, it's unclear how exactly Grokipedia articles are put together. Reports suggest the site is powered by the same xAI model that underpins Musk's Grok chatbot, but some articles are seemingly adapted from Wikipedia. The San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation said in a statement Tuesday that it is "still in the process of understanding how Grokipedia works." As a huge trove of well-constructed sentences with little restriction on how it's used, Wikipedia has been a key source used to train AI chatbots, including Grok's rivals ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. "This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist," said the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia for months has been a target of the political right. Republican lawmakers in the U.S. Congress launched an investigation in August of alleged "manipulation efforts" in Wikipedia's editing process that they said could inject bias and undermine neutral points of view on its platform and the AI systems that rely on it. Wikipedia encourages its volunteer editors to cite nearly every sentence or paragraph with a primary source, and sentences not verified can be challenged and removed. Some of Grokipedia's entries are thinly sourced, such as an entry on the Chola Dynasty of southern India that has three linked sources, compared to Wikipedia's that has 113 linked sources plus dozens of referenced books. Grokipedia's entry on Wikipedia accuses the site of having "systemic ideological biases -- particularly a left-leaning slant in coverage of political figures and topics." The Wikimedia Foundation said in its statement Tuesday: "Unlike newer projects, Wikipedia's strengths are clear: it has transparent policies, rigorous volunteer oversight, and a strong culture of continuous improvement. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, written to inform billions of readers without promoting a particular point of view."

Elon Musk challenges Wikipedia with his own AI encyclopedia

SAN FRANCISCO -- Elon Musk on Monday unveiled his own version of Wikipedia, the crowdsourced online encyclopedia, with entries edited by xAI, his artificial intelligence company. The new project, Grokipedia, would "purge out the propaganda" flooding Wikipedia, Musk claimed in a post on his social media site, X. Grokipedia, which briefly crashed after its launch Monday afternoon, tallied more than 800,000 AI-generated encyclopedia entries, compared with Wikipedia's nearly 8 million human-written ones. Visitors to the website -- grokipedia.com -- were greeted with a bare-bones logo and a search bar that allowed them to query topics. An entry on Musk said his public persona "blends innovative visionary with irreverent provocateur" and featured details of his diet, noting his consumption of "occasional indulgences like morning donuts and multiple Diet Cokes daily." Grokipedia also has entries on OpenAI, a competitor of xAI, and political figures including President Donald Trump and the New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. The new site adds to Musk's online media ecosystem, which coheres with his personal political views. On X, Musk has reinstated right-wing creators and allowed them to reach enormous audiences, and he has used X as a bully pulpit to drive government funding cuts. He has also tweaked xAI's chatbot, Grok, to lean further to the right. "The impulse to control knowledge is as old as knowledge itself," said Ryan McGrady, a senior research fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who studies encyclopedias and social media platforms. "Controlling what gets written is a way to gain or keep power." Some Grokipedia entries appeared to align with Musk's views. On gender transition, which Musk has publicly opposed, the site said medical treatment for transgender people was based on evidence that was "limited and of low quality." Wikipedia's corresponding page said scientific understanding of the subject had existed for decades. Musk was also a frequent critic of Parag Agrawal, a former CEO of Twitter, now X. Grokipedia's entry on Agrawal highlighted Musk's assertion that the former executive downplayed the existence of bots on the platform, and it said he had "faced significant scrutiny over the platform's estimates of fake and spam accounts." Those details were not found on Wikipedia. A representative for xAI did not respond to questions about Grokipedia or the outage. Wikipedia, which debuted almost 25 years ago, has faced increasing criticism from conservatives in recent months. Musk and his political allies have argued that the online encyclopedia is too "woke" and excludes conservative media outlets from its approved citations. Musk fiercely criticized the site in January, after the entry on him was edited to note that he had thrown his right arm stiffly into the air in front of him -- a gesture many onlookers quickly compared to a Nazi salute -- during a celebratory speech honoring Trump's inauguration. Musk has denied any meaning behind his gesture, something also included in the entry. "Since legacy media propaganda is considered a 'valid' source by Wikipedia, it naturally simply becomes an extension of legacy media propaganda!" he posted, calling for its donors to stop contributing to the site. Musk announced his intention to build a competing site this month. "Wikipedia has achieved a dominant position. I hope Grokipedia challenges it and is able to fix that," said David Sacks, the AI czar of the Trump administration and an investor in several of Musk's companies, in an episode of his podcast this month. "But the easier path might just be for Wikipedia to stop blackballing and censoring conservative publications, rather than having to rebuild that whole thing from scratch." Jimmy Wales, a Wikipedia co-founder, said in an interview that he did not think AI could replace the site's accuracy. He is leading an internal working group that is focused on promoting neutral points of view and developing guidelines to encourage academic research into potential biases on Wikipedia, he added. "I try to tease out what is the negative something in there that I could try to improve," Wales said of the critiques. "It's digging in and doing the work. That's the only thing I know how to do." Wikipedia already faces challenges as its entries are used to train AI systems, said representatives for the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that oversees the online encyclopedia. Visits to its website by humans have fallen 8% this year, while visits from automatic scrapers that AI companies use to harvest data have increased. AI summaries generated by search engines and chatbots are also stopping users from visiting Wikipedia. "People will take information they get from these tools at face value, and that information may or may not be correct," said Selena Deckelmann, the chief technology officer of the Wikimedia Foundation. "The value Wikipedia has provided for over a decade is that it lets people dig into the sources."

Elon Musk launches Grokipedia -- an encyclopedia where AI gets the last word

Elon Musk's open-source AI-powered online encyclopedia, Grokipedia, presents itself as an alternative to Wikipedia. Elon Musk has finally launched his AI-powered and "truth" focused answer to Wikipedia on Monday -- Grokipedia -- amid ongoing beef with the incumbent platform over its editorial practices. In a series of posts via X on Monday following the launch, Musk stated that Grokipedia "is fully open source, so anyone can use it for anything at no cost" and that its goal is to "truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." One X user already noticed a difference between the articles about George Floyd, an African-American man who a Florida police officer killed during an arrest. The user noticed that the first paragraph of the Grokipedia article highlighted Floyd's extended criminal record, while the Wikipedia article emphasized that he was killed by a "white" police officer. "We will never be perfect, but we shall nonetheless strive towards that goal," he added. The service had been pushed back a few days, as Musk halted the launch to "purge out the propaganda" on Grokipedia. It reportedly crashed temporarily after launch before promptly coming back online. At the time of writing, the site is fully functional and claims to host over 885,000 articles so far. While details are still sparse on the specific processes behind Grokipedia, at first glance, its AI-integrations mark quite a different organizational structure from Wikipedia. In Grokipedia's case, X's Grok AI appears to take the lead in dictating and moderating content on the platform, while Wikipedia relies on a blend of editorial volunteers and automated tools. Related: X launches market for inactive handles amid push to monetize digital identity Musk explained on Monday that users will be able to add or request changes to content on Grokipedia, with the AI making the final decision. "Grok generated about 1M articles using a lot of compute. You will be able to ask Grok to add/modify/delete articles and it will either take the action or tell you it won't and why," Musk wrote via X. Musk has criticized Wikipedia on multiple occasions, alleging that it is biased toward the left side of politics and culture. Notably, while Musk's direct criticism is not mentioned in Grokipedia's article on "Wikipedia," it does highlight studies suggesting the platform has a left-wing bias. "Studies analyzing article language and tone reveal deviations from neutrality, with right-leaning political figures and topics more frequently depicted negatively compared to left-leaning counterparts, suggesting the policies do not fully mitigate ideological skews arising from editor demographics and source selection," the article reads. Meanwhile, Wikipedia's article on Grokipedia cites concerns from the critics that Grokipedia has the potential to be slanted toward "far-right" perspectives of Elon Musk. "Critics have highlighted entries that promote far-right perspectives or favor Musk's viewpoints.[7] NBC News noted that the Grokipedia entry for Musk did not mention the hand gesture he made in January 2025, which many viewed as a Nazi salute, while Wikipedia's article does,[5]" the Wikipedia article about Grokipedia reads.

Grokipedia's "AI-verified" pages show little change from Wikipedia

Grokipedia mirrors Wikipedia's design and content but removes user editing, showing minimal originality while claiming AI verification via Grok. xAI launched Grokipedia, a Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia, on or before October 28, 2025, revealing content adapted from Wikipedia despite Elon Musk's earlier promise of substantial enhancements over the existing platform. The interface of Grokipedia presents a straightforward layout centered on functionality. The homepage features a prominent search bar occupying much of the screen, similar to Wikipedia's design. Individual entries follow a structured format with clear headings and subheadings to organize information. Citations appear at the end of sections, providing references for the material presented. Currently, no images or photographs accompany the text in any of the reviewed pages, maintaining a text-only presentation that emphasizes readability without visual elements. User interaction options remain limited on Grokipedia. Unlike Wikipedia, where community members can directly modify content, Grokipedia does not permit visitor edits. An edit button appears at the top of select pages, but selecting it displays only a record of previous modifications. These logs list completed changes without identifying the individuals or entities responsible for them. No mechanism exists for users to propose or submit new alterations, restricting all updates to internal processes handled by xAI. Each entry includes a declaration regarding verification processes. The pages state that Grok, xAI's AI model, has conducted fact-checking on the content. This verification claim appears prominently, accompanied by the specific date when the review occurred. Such assertions highlight Grok's role in ensuring accuracy, though the methodology behind these checks involves large language models known for generating outputs based on trained data patterns. Elon Musk, founder of xAI, had described Grokipedia as offering a massive improvement compared to Wikipedia in prior statements. This vision positioned the new encyclopedia as a superior alternative, addressing perceived shortcomings in the established resource. However, examination of several articles reveals direct reliance on Wikipedia material rather than original development. The MacBook Air entry explicitly acknowledges its origins in the following note at the bottom: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License." This attribution complies with the licensing terms that allow reuse and modification of Wikipedia content, provided proper credit is given and derivative works are shared under the same conditions. The adaptation process here involves minimal changes to the source text, preserving much of the original wording and structure. Similar patterns emerge in other technology and product pages. The PlayStation 5 article mirrors its Wikipedia equivalent almost verbatim, with identical phrasing across multiple paragraphs and sections. Line-for-line comparisons confirm that sentences, lists of specifications, and historical details transfer without significant alteration. The Lincoln Mark VIII page follows the same approach, replicating descriptions of the vehicle's design, production history, and technical features exactly as they appear on Wikipedia. Lauren Dickinson, spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, addressed the launch in a statement to The Verge. She said, "Even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist." This remark underscores the foundational role Wikipedia plays in providing accessible knowledge that newer platforms draw upon. Dickinson's full statement elaborates on Wikipedia's operational model and its distinctions from commercial ventures. Prior incidents involving xAI's AI tools referencing Wikipedia surfaced recently. Last month, an X user highlighted instances where Grok cited Wikipedia pages in responses. Elon Musk replied to this observation, stating that "we should have this fixed by end of year." This commitment suggests ongoing efforts to reduce direct dependencies on external sources like Wikipedia in xAI's systems. While many Grokipedia articles derive from Wikipedia, variations exist in certain topics. The climate change entry diverges notably from its Wikipedia counterpart. Wikipedia's article states, "There is a nearly unanimous scientific consensus that the climate is warming and that this is caused by human activities. No scientific body of national or international standing disagrees with this view." In contrast, Grokipedia's version uses the term "unanimous" in a specific context: "Critics contend that claims of near-unanimous scientific consensus on anthropogenic causes dominating recent climate change overstate agreement due to selective categorization in literature reviews." Grokipedia's climate change page further incorporates perspectives from skeptics. It describes how media and organizations such as Greenpeace contribute to public alarm through coordinated efforts. These efforts frame climate change as an existential imperative, influencing discourse and policy. The entry questions whether such framing aligns with proportionate empirical evidence, presenting a balanced inclusion of dissenting views not emphasized in Wikipedia's consensus-focused narrative. Grokipedia's scale positions it as a growing resource, though smaller than its predecessor. A ticker on the homepage indicates over 885,000 articles available. This collection covers diverse subjects from technology to history and science. Wikipedia, by comparison, maintains approximately 7 million pages in English alone, reflecting two decades of accumulated contributions from a global volunteer base. The platform operates in an initial phase, marked by a v0.1 version number displayed on the homepage. This designation signals an early release, with potential for expansions in features, content volume, and user functionalities in subsequent updates. xAI's development timeline aligns with broader goals to integrate AI-driven tools into knowledge dissemination. Dickinson's complete statement provides deeper insight into Wikipedia's framework. She explained, "We're still in the process of understanding how Grokipedia works. Since 2001, Wikipedia has been the backbone of knowledge on the internet. Hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, it remains the only top website in the world run by a nonprofit. Unlike newer projects, Wikipedia's strengths are clear: it has transparent policies, rigorous volunteer oversight, and a strong culture of continuous improvement. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, written to inform billions of readers without promoting a particular point of view." She continued, "Wikipedia's knowledge is - and always will be - human. Through open collaboration and consensus, people from all backgrounds build a neutral, living record of human understanding - one that reflects our diversity and collective curiosity. This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist." Dickinson emphasized operational independence: "Wikipedia's nonprofit independence -- with no ads and no data-selling -- also sets it apart from for-profit alternatives. All of these strengths have kept Wikipedia a top trusted resource for more than two decades." Addressing historical context, she noted, "Many experiments to create alternative versions of Wikipedia have happened before; it doesn't interfere with our work or mission. As we approach Wikipedia's 25th anniversary, Wikipedia will continue focusing on providing free, trustworthy knowledge built by its dedicated volunteer community. For more information about how Wikipedia works, visit our website and new blog series." This statement reaffirms Wikipedia's commitment to its core principles amid emerging competitors.

Musk launches Grokipedia to rival 'left-biased' Wikipedia

New York (AFP) - Elon Musk's company xAI has launched a website called Grokipedia to compete with online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which he and others on the American right wing have accused of ideological bias. The site, dubbed version 0.1, had more than 885,000 articles by Monday evening after its launch, compared to Wikipedia's more than seven million in English. The launch came with the promise of a newer version, 1.0, which Musk said would be "10X better" than the current live site, which he claimed is already "better than Wikipedia." Musk and the US Republican Party have frequently criticized Wikipedia, accusing a site that has become a living repository of human knowledge of being biased against right-wing ideas. Musk, the world's richest person and owner of social media platform X, poured hundreds of millions into US President Donald Trump's election campaign, and claimed Grokipedia would carry "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. "We will never be perfect, but we shall nonetheless strive towards that goal," he said on X following the launch. The content of Grokipedia is generated by artificial intelligence (AI) and the generative AI assistant Grok. Grokipedia's release had been slated for the end of September, but was delayed to "purge out the propaganda," Musk said in a separate X post. Attacks on Wikipedia In 2024, Musk accused Wikipedia of being "controlled by far-left activists" and called for donations to the platform to cease. In August, he stopped Twitter from using Wikipedia as a "definitive source for Community Notes, as the editorial control there is extremely left-biased." Trump-aligned officials have also taken aim at the site since the Republican returned to power in January. In April, federal prosecutor Ed Martin, who was appointed by Trump but has since been replaced, threatened to investigate whether Wikipedia's parent organization Wikimedia was eligible for the tax exemption granted to foundations, accusing it of carrying propaganda. And in August, two Republican members of the House of Representatives launched an investigation into "organized efforts... to influence US public opinion on important and sensitive topics by manipulating Wikipedia articles." Created in 2001, Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia managed by volunteers, largely funded by donations. Its pages can be written or edited by internet users. "Unlike newer projects, Wikipedia's strengths are clear: it has transparent policies, rigorous volunteer oversight, and a strong culture of continuous improvement," Gwadamirai Majange, a spokeswoman for the Wikimedia Foundation, told AFP in an email. She said the site is written to inform "billions of readers without promoting a particular point of view." Right-leaning content A Grokipedia article about Musk states that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO "has influenced broader debates on technological progress, demographic decline, and institutional biases, often via X." It said his ownership of the social media platform "has prioritized content moderation reforms amid criticisms from legacy media outlets that exhibit systemic left-leaning tilts in coverage." Another example was the page devoted to right-wing journalist and commentator Tucker Carlson, which highlights his role in "challenging systemic biases in traditional journalism." The citation to that claim, however, links to a Newsweek article where the only corroboration is Carlson describing himself that way. Several right-wing figures welcomed the launch of Grokipedia. Hardline Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin described the article about him as "neutral, objective, accurate," whereas Wikipedia's page, according to him, was, "totally biased and defamatory." Asked about the launch of Grokipedia, Wikimedia spokesperson Majange said the organization was "still in the process of understanding how Grokipedia works." She highlighted that Wikimedia "is -- and always will be -- human." "This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content, even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist."

You Need to Check Your Company's Page on Grokipedia Right Now

Elon Musk's answer to Wikipedia recently launched -- and the rollout has been anything but smooth. Grokipedia had only been live for 47 minutes before it crashed. Once those problems were fixed, though, a growing number of people began noticing errors in the site's entries. And that could serve as a warning to business leaders to read their company's entry particularly closely. Grokipedia is different from Wikipedia in that all of the 885,000-plus articles were written by Musk's Grok AI, not humans. And AI -- whether it's Grok, ChatGPT or Perplexity -- sometimes plays fast and loose with the truth. For companies, that can cause all manner of problems, since 92 percent of people don't check the veracity of AI answers. Wikipedia, Grokipedia's inspiration and arch-rival, allows anyone to edit content, but community-driven policies strive to ensure the site's accuracy. Human editors monitor changes and correct errors, though the site is far from perfect. Several individuals have looked up their Grokipedia pages and found factual errors. Science fiction writer John Scalzi ran a spot check on the article about him soon after Grokipedia's launch. Quickly, he noticed that it incorrectly listed his birth order in relation to his siblings as well as the publishing order of his books. The site also stated as fact an internet rumor that Steven Spielberg was directing an upcoming film adaptation of his story Old Man's War. (Spielberg is not, something Scalzi has said repeatedly.) "Grok can find out things about me on the Internet, and put those things into Grokipedia, but it doesn't appear to have the ability to discriminate between what is truth and what's not," he wrote. "If it shows up enough on the Internet, Grok's happy to print the not truth. ... I can't trust it to be accurate about me, so how can I trust it to be accurate about any other thing? The answer is, I can't. " Canadian software developer Tim Bray, who co-founded several companies, including Antarctica Systems and Open Text Corp., also did a spot check of his Grokipedia page and found it lacking. "Every paragraph contains significant errors," he wrote. "Sometimes the text is explicitly self-contradictory on the face of it, sometimes the mistakes are subtle enough that only I would spot them." Even the entry about Elon Musk has errors, it turns out. Grokipedia says that after Musk left the Department of Government Efficiency, Vivek Ramaswamy took on "a more prominent role" at the agency. In actuality, Ramaswamy quit DOGE in January before the agency even got started. A quick scan of Inc.'s Grokipedia page revealed some errors, as well. It listed one employee as being on staff since 1983. (He left 10 years ago.) But Musk's site also fixed at least one error from Wikipedia (about the nature of Inc.'s National Magazine Award in 2014). Grokipedia, initially, seemed to have no way for people to change article pages. It still doesn't, at least not directly, but the site has added a "Suggest Edit" button, which can be accessed by highlighting an erroneous passage and right clicking on it. (There have also been accusations that much of Grokipedia's content seems to be drawn from Wikipedia, so it's worth checking that site. If the errors are repeated there, you can correct them quickly, and then hope Grokipedia adjusts its page subsequently.) Companies that have issues with how their business is presented on the site can lodge complaints and ask for corrections, but it's unclear how fast the turnaround time is - and there doesn't appear to be any way to confirm suggested changes are being considered. Beyond factual errors, this new AI encyclopedia, as you may have heard, seems to have an ideological bias that some say embraces the right, but in many instances appears to parrot Musk's own philosophies. (The site was originally scheduled to launch Oct. 20, but was delayed, Musk said, because "We need to do more work to purge out the propaganda.") Grokipedia assigns a perceived political bias to many people, sites and businesses (including Nike, Procter & Gamble and Disney). It says, on its page about race and intelligence, that science says some races are more intelligent than others. And it describes George Floyd primarily as "an American man with a lengthy criminal record." The site also deadnames and misgenders transgender people regularly. Despite its many reported problems and the reputational damage it can do to people and businesses, Musk seems proud of his creation. "Version 1.0 will be 10X better, but even at 0.1 it's better than Wikipedia imo," he wrote following the site's launch.

Musk launches Grokipedia, AI-powered alternative to Wikipedia

Elon Musk launched Grokipedia on Monday as an alternative to the nonprofit-powered Wikipedia. Musk's version is backed by xAI, but still uses Wikipedia as a source on most subjects. The subsections and citations on Grokipedia resemble that of its predecessor but refrain from reporting on topics critical of Musk, its maker. For example, no mention of his gesture resembling a Nazi salute made on stage during a celebration of President Trump's inauguration or ties to the development of toxic waste spread at data center for xAI in Memphis, Tenn., could be found in the search engine. The site offers 885,279 articles, so far. It's the fruition of an effort first announced in late September with the goal of developing a "massive improvement over Wikipedia," Musk previously wrote in a post on X. In the past, he's called the site "Wokipedia" following similar accusations from GOP lawmakers in Congress and White House AI czar David Sacks, who slammed the site as "hopelessly biased." "An army of left-wing activists maintain the bios and fight reasonable corrections," Sacks alleged on X. "Magnifying the problem, Wikipedia often appears first in Google search results, and now it's a trusted source for AI model training. This is a huge problem." However, The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, defended itself from those claims last month in a statement that said, "Wikipedia informs; it does not persuade." Lauren Dickinson, a spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation, doubled down on those remarks Monday. "Unlike newer projects, Wikipedia's strengths are clear: it has transparent policies, rigorous volunteer oversight, and a strong culture of continuous improvement. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, written to inform billions of readers without promoting a particular point of view," Dickinson said in a statement reported by The Verge. "Wikipedia's knowledge is - and always will be - human. Through open collaboration and consensus, people from all backgrounds build a neutral, living record of human understanding - one that reflects our diversity and collective curiosity. This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist," she added.

The reason nobody cares about Grokipedia

Elon Musk is the kind of entrepreneur who likes to have an enemy as motivation -- traditional carmakers, the mainstream media, the "deep state." His newest undertaking, launched October 27, is no exception: Grokipedia is positioned as an alternative to Wikipedia, which Musk claims is biased and "woke." A product of Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI, Grokipedia's inner workings are unclear, but the pitch is that it's an AI-generated compendium of what Musk calls "truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." One major factor that makes Grokipedia different from Musk's other rival-fueled enterprises is that Wikipedia is quite popular, well-liked, and widely trusted. There's no substantial burgeoning dissatisfaction with or opposition to Wikipedia fueling demand for an alternative. To the contrary, in the world of mass-market information, it's one of the strongest brands out there. This wasn't always the case. Founded in 2001, Wikipedia's crowdsourced alternative to a traditional encyclopedia was treated with skepticism for its first decade or so, as consumers weighed the merits of formal expertise against what came to be called crowdsourcing. But by the mid-2010s, its trust grew even as long-established information brands struggled. For example, in a YouGov survey in the U.K., 64% of respondents said they trust Wikipedia "a great deal" or "a fair amount," beating out the likes of the BBC and The Times; a five-country survey in 2019 found trust of Wikipedia at 78% or better. For techno-optimists, Wikipedia was touted as a portent of the internet's utopian work-together future. In a world where top-down information "gatekeepers" were no longer trusted, Wikipedia attained a Web-era version of gravitas, a crowdsourced Walter Cronkite.

Elon Musk's Grokpedia v0.1 Wants to Take Over Wikipedia Reign

Elon Musk's latest project is an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered online encyclopedia that is focused on "truth." Dubbed Grokipedia, the encyclopedia's version 0.1 went live on Monday as a website, allowing users to visit and search for articles. The billionaire has been touting Grokipedia for the last month, claiming that Wikipedia is ineffective and contains "propaganda". Notably, Musk's open-source alternative does not let human users edit information or add context or sources at this point, and everything is maintained directly by Grok. Grokipedia v0.1 Is Now Live In a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), Musk announced the launch of the Grokipedia platform, calling the current iteration version 0.1. "Version 1.0 will be 10X better, but even at 0.1 it's better than Wikipedia imo," he added. The billionaire entrepreneur also mentioned in a separate post that the platform is fully open-source and can be used by anyone without any cost incurred. This is likely to challenge Wikipedia's current position, which also operates on a similar model, and is widely used by third-party websites, apps, and AI chatbots such as Grok (Musk has said that Grok will soon stop referencing Wikipedia). Grokipedia, currently, is a bare bones website with the homepage showing nothing but a large search bar where users can type a topic to read articles about it. At present, there are 8,85,000 articles uploaded, which cover major global topics. Unlike Wikipedia, users cannot edit or alter the content, but can request Grok to modify the article. Despite being launched just hours ago, Grokipedia has already begun facing criticism. The Verge claimed that information in several articles on Grokipedia has been taken from Wikipedia. In some cases, the information has reportedly been rewritten, while in others it has been copied and pasted directly. The pages where Grok takes data from its rival, it adds a message saying, "The content is adapted from Wikipedia." Lauren Dickinson, a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson, told The Verge, "Wikipedia's strengths are clear: it has transparent policies, rigorous volunteer oversight, and a strong culture of continuous improvement[..]This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist."

Musk launches AI-powered Grokipedia to challenge 'left-biased' Wikipedia

After months of delays to "purge out the propaganda", Elon Musk on Monday announced the launch of Grokipedia to rival online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which he has accused of ideological bias. The content of Grokipedia is generated by artificial intelligence (AI) and the generative AI assistant Grok. Elon Musk's company xAI launched Grokipedia on Monday to compete with online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which he has accused of ideological bias. The site dubbed version 0.1 had more than 885,000 articles by Monday evening, compared to Wikipedia's more than seven million in English. The launch came with the promise of a newer version 1.0, which Musk said would be "10X better" than the current live site, which he claimed is already "better than Wikipedia." "The goal of Grok and Grokipedia.com is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. We will never be perfect, but we shall nonetheless strive towards that goal," he said on X following the launch. Grokipedia's release had been marked down for the end of September, but was delayed by the US entrepreneur to "purge out the propaganda," Musk said in a separate X post. Musk has been a regular critic of Wikipedia. In 2024, he accused the site of being "controlled by far-left activists" and called for donations to the platform to cease. In August, he said "Wikipedia cannot be used as a definitive source for Community Notes, as the editorial control there is extremely left-biased." The content of Grokipedia is generated by artificial intelligence (AI) and the generative AI assistant Grok. A Grokipedia article dedicated to Musk states that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has "influenced broader debates on technological progress, demographic decline, and institutional biases, often via X," amid what the page says are "criticisms from legacy media outlets that exhibit systemic left-leaning tilts in coverage." Created in 2001, Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia managed by volunteers, largely funded by donations, and whose pages can be written or edited by internet users. It claims a "neutral point of view" in its content.

Musk's Grokipedia sets off new debate on bias

Elon Musk's xAI has launched Grokipedia, an AI-powered encyclopedia aiming to rival Wikipedia by offering "more accurate and less biased" content. Using the Grok AI chatbot to create and update entries, the platform already faces controversy over the replication of Wikipedia content and limited human oversight, despite allowing user suggestions. With the launch of Grokipedia, a new AI-powered encyclopedia developed by xAI, Elon Musk is aiming to take on Wikipedia. With AI replacing human editors, the platform launched in late October claims to provide, what Musk refers to as, a "more accurate and less biased" source of information. Post the launch, some are, however, raising questions about originality, reliability, and whether or not machines can actually replace the collective judgement of scores of human contributors. Will Grokipedia be able to replace Wikipedia? Tanya Pandey explains. What's the idea behind it? According to Musk, the objective is to develop a more "balanced" and "accurate" information source. He has often accused Wikipedia of ideological bias and claims that more objective fact-curation can be achieved by AI systems such as xAI's chatbot Grok. How does it work and how large is it right now? Musk's social media platform X uses the same AI model, Grok, to generate, summarise, and verify entries. Although users can search for topics and suggest corrections, they are not allowed to edit directly since the AI makes most of the updates on its own. The website reportedly had nearly 900,000 articles when it first launched, which is significantly less than Wikipedia's 6 million-plus English-language articles. According to xAI, as Grok generates new pages automatically over time, the encyclopedia will grow quickly. What are the main criticisms so far? Users and tech publications discovered soon after the launch that many entries were almost exact replicas of Wikipedia entries. Despite the fact that Grokipedia adheres to Wikipedia's Creative Commons License, critics claim that the platform feels more like a repackaging of pre-existing content than an original AI-generated resource. There are other concerns raised regarding transparency, bias and accuracy. It is unclear how the AI verifies claims or fixes errors since the editorial process is not available for public review. How does this approach differ from Wikipedia's model? Grokipedia primarily uses xAI's chatbot Grok to generate and update content with minimal human intervention, as opposed to Wikipedia's community-driven model, where millions of volunteers edit and discuss every change in public view. This makes it faster and more convenient, but also raises questions regarding the process of verification, making it less transparent. How has Wikipedia responded? The Wikimedia Foundation has not filed a complaint, but noted that Wikipedia content can be reused only with attribution.

Elon Musk's Grokipedia goes live in a bid to compete with crowdsourced Wikipedia

Grokipedia says it has 885,279 articles while Wikipedia states it has more than 7 million articles in English. Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia that the billionaire seeks to position as a rival to Wikipedia. Writing on social media, Musk said that Grokipedia.com is "now live" and its goal is the "truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." Musk has previously criticized Wikipedia for being filled with "propaganda" and called for people to stop donating to the site, which is run by a nonprofit. In September he announced that his artificial intelligence company xAI was working on Grokipedia. The Grokipedia site has a minimalist appearance with little beyond a search bar where users can type in queries. It states that it has 885,279 articles. Wikipedia, meanwhile, says it has more than 7 million articles in English. Like Wikipedia, users can search for articles on various topics such as Taylor Swift, the baseball World Series, or Buckingham Palace. While Wikipedia is written and edited by volunteers, it's unclear how exactly Grokipedia articles are put together. Reports suggest the site is powered by the same xAI model that underpins Musk's Grok chatbot, but some articles are seemingly adapted from Wikipedia. The San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation said in a statement Tuesday that it is "still in the process of understanding how Grokipedia works." As a huge trove of well-constructed sentences with little restriction on how it's used, Wikipedia has been a key source used to train AI chatbots, including Grok's rivals ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. "This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist," said the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia for months has been a target of the political right. Republican lawmakers in the U.S. Congress launched an investigation in August of alleged "manipulation efforts" in Wikipedia's editing process that they said could inject bias and undermine neutral points of view on its platform and the AI systems that rely on it. Wikipedia encourages its volunteer editors to cite nearly every sentence or paragraph with a primary source, and sentences not verified can be challenged and removed. Some of Grokipedia's entries are thinly sourced, such as an entry on the Chola Dynasty of southern India that has three linked sources, compared to Wikipedia's that has 113 linked sources plus dozens of referenced books. Grokipedia's entry on Wikipedia accuses the site of having "systemic ideological biases -- particularly a left-leaning slant in coverage of political figures and topics." The Wikimedia Foundation said in its statement Tuesday: "Unlike newer projects, Wikipedia's strengths are clear: it has transparent policies, rigorous volunteer oversight, and a strong culture of continuous improvement. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, written to inform billions of readers without promoting a particular point of view."

Elon Musk Takes Aim At Wikipedia With Launch Of Grokipedia -- Promises 'The Whole Truth' As AI-Powered Encyclopedia Sparks Debate

Enter your email to get Benzinga's ultimate morning update: The PreMarket Activity Newsletter Elon Musk has unveiled Grokipedia, a new AI-powered encyclopedia he says will deliver "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth," setting up a direct challenge to Wikipedia, which he has long criticized for ideological bias. Musk Says Grokipedia Will Only Pursue The Truth The xAI-backed project went live this week at Grokipedia.com, featuring a minimalist design and more than 885,000 articles. Musk said on X, formerly Twitter, that the platform's goal is absolute truthfulness, even if perfection is unattainable. "The goal of Grok and Grokipedia.com is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. We will never be perfect, but we shall nonetheless strive towards that goal," Musk wrote. The billionaire has previously blasted Wikipedia for being full of propaganda and urged users to stop donating to the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation. See Also: AMD, Nvidia, Broadcom's Combined Value Surges 1000% In Just Three Years -- And Bulls Want More Wikimedia Foundation Responds, Questions Transparency In a statement Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation said it is still "in the process of understanding how Grokipedia works," but highlighted that Wikipedia's strengths lie in its "transparent policies, rigorous volunteer oversight" and continuous improvement, reported the Associated Press. Some Grokipedia pages appear to have borrowed from Wikipedia entries, but with fewer citations and a distinctly different editorial tone. A comparison of the George Floyd entries on both sites sparked viral debate online, with one user claiming Grokipedia's version was "far superior" and free of ideology. Grokipedia Is Built On xAI's Grok Model Reports suggest Grokipedia is powered by the same Grok language model behind Musk's chatbot on X. Musk positioned the project as part of his broader campaign to create AI systems that resist political or cultural bias. While Wikipedia boasts more than 7 million English articles, Grokipedia remains in its early stages -- but it's already igniting fierce discussions about truth, bias and who gets to define knowledge in the age of AI. Read Next: After Google's $2.7B Acquisition Of Founders And Staff, This AI Startup Abandons Large Language Model Plans And Shifts Focus Away From Chatbots Disclaimer: This content was partially produced with the help of Benzinga Neuro and was reviewed and published by Benzinga editors. Photo courtesy: Frederic Legrand - COMEO via Shutterstock Market News and Data brought to you by Benzinga APIs

Elon Musk Launches Grokipedia, His Own Wikipedia Alternative

Musk is calling Grokipedia a completely unbiased platform, citing only the truth. Elon Musk's AI startup xAI has launched the first version of Grokipedia, an AI-backed encyclopedia that the Tesla and X CEO is touting as an unbiased alternative to Wikipedia. The platform debuted with over 885,000 articles, with version 1.0 releasing sometime soon. After the launch of Grok's video generation model, xAI released Grokipedia.com, which went live on Monday, with Musk announcing its release in his X post. The platform is supposed to be a more factual and less biased alternative to the crowd-sourced website, Wikipedia, which Musk has claimed to be left-leaning and biased on several occasions. "The goal of Grok and Grokipedia is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. We will never be perfect, but we shall nonetheless strive towards that goal," said Musk in reply to another post. The website has a minimal landing page with an option to switch between a dark and light theme. The article page looks familiar to Wikipedia, with a list of content on the left, and the main article taking the rest of the space. It also cites links for its sources at the bottom, and it shows when it was last fact-checked at the top of the article. You can select a portion of the text to mark it as incorrect or ask Grok more about it. Musk has also announced that xAI is already working on Grokipedia version 1.0, and it will be 10 times better than the current iteration. The highlight of Grokipedia is supposed to be its unbiased nature, but soon after the platform's debut, some outlets like Wired and the Washington Post claimed that it is making false narratives that suit Musk's vision. Meanwhile, Musk's admirers on X are praising the platform for its unbiased framing of the articles.

Grokipedia to exceed Wikipedia by several orders of magnitude in breadth, depth and accuracy: Elon Musk

Elon Musk announced Grokipedia, an AI-powered encyclopedia developed by xAI, aiming to surpass Wikipedia in breadth, depth, and accuracy. Musk claims Grokipedia will eliminate human bias and political leanings, though it currently adapts some content from Wikipedia. The platform allows users to suggest corrections rather than direct edits. Elon Musk on Wednesday took a dig at Wikipedia, claiming that his new platform Grokipedia will surpass the popular online encyclopedia "by several orders of magnitude in breadth, depth and accuracy." Musk made the statement while responding to a user on his social media platform X. Developed by xAI, Musk's artificial intelligence company and the creator of the chatbot Grok, Grokipedia is an AI-powered encyclopedia that aims to challenge what Musk calls a "woke" and biased Wikipedia. He described Grokipedia as a "massive improvement over Wikipedia" and said it aligns with xAI's broader mission to help humanity better understand the universe. The idea for Grokipedia emerged last month after Musk's friend David Sacks, who is also known as US President Donald Trump's AI and crypto advisor, suggested that Musk build a Wikipedia alternative. Musk agreed, saying that an AI-generated encyclopedia would be "super important for civilisation" because it would eliminate human bias and political leanings in information sharing. When users search for a topic on Grokipedia, the site displays a list of related articles that have been "fact-checked by Grok" -- xAI's conversational AI model -- along with timestamps showing when the information was last updated. Unlike Wikipedia, visitors cannot directly edit any entries. Instead, they can suggest corrections or flag inaccuracies using a feedback form. Interestingly, some content on Grokipedia currently includes a disclaimer stating that it has been adapted from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. This indicates that the platform is still partly sourcing its data from Wikipedia. However, Musk has said he plans to end this dependence by the end of the year. At present, Grokipedia reportedly hosts 8,85,279 articles, and that number is expected to rise rapidly in the coming days. Musk has also confirmed that the underlying AI is open source, allowing anyone to use or study it freely. Currently, Grokipedia is available only through a web browser, with no word yet on whether xAI will release a mobile app for Android or iOS.

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By completing this form, you agree to receive marketing communications from PYMNTS and to the sharing of your information with our sponsor, if applicable, in accordance with our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions. The online encyclopedia, which launched Monday (Oct. 27), is designed to "purge out" what Musk called "the propaganda" on Wikipedia, according to a post on his X social media site. It takes its name from Grok, the AI chatbot behind Musk's xAI startup. The tech tycoon had previously attacked Wikipedia as "woke" and criticized it for citing media outlets like The New York Times and NPR as sources in many of its articles. Grokipedia had 885,279 AI-written entries as of early Tuesday (Oct. 28) morning, compared to the more than 7 million English language human-created entries on Wikipedia. (Factor in other languages and that number tops 22 million.) Musk had announced plans for the project on X late last month, saying it would be "a massive improvement over Wikipedia." "Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe," he wrote. At launch, Wikipedia appears to be the starting point for many Grokipedia entries, with a message at the bottom saying the content "is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License." A report by the New York Times notes that visits to Wikipedia by human users have dropped 8% this year, while visits from AI scrapers have risen. AI summaries provided by search engines and chatbots are also keeping people from using Wikipedia, the report said. "People will take information they get from these tools at face value, and that information may or may not be correct," Selena Deckelmann, the chief technology officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, told the Times. "The value Wikipedia has provided for over a decade is that it lets people dig into the sources." In other AI news, PYMNTS wrote last week about a recent survey from researchers from AI Impacts and the universities of Oxford and Bonn showing a sharp shift in how experts view the timeline for advanced artificial intelligence. Researchers gave a 50% probability that systems that could perform all tasks better and more cheaply than humans would be feasible by 2047, 13 years earlier than what experts had projected in 2022. "In practical terms, participants thought that within the decade, leading AI labs could produce systems capable of autonomously fine-tuning large language models, building complex online services like payment-processing websites, or writing songs indistinguishable from those of hit artists," PYMNTS wrote. "Yet, despite optimism about capabilities, full automation of all occupations was not expected until 2116, highlighting a long lag between technical feasibility and societal transformation."

xAI launches Grokipedia v0.1 as open-source AI alternative to Wikipedia

Elon Musk has officially launched Grokipedia, an artificial intelligence-powered encyclopedia developed by his company xAI. Released as Version 0.1, the platform uses the Grok AI model to automatically generate, verify, and update a large repository of factual content. Positioned as a direct competitor to Wikipedia, Grokipedia takes a fully AI-managed approach to information creation and editing. Instead of community editors, xAI's Grok model generates and maintains entries for consistency and speed. Musk announced the rollout on X, stating that Grokipedia is "better than Wikipedia even at 0.1," and added that Version 1.0 will be ten times better. The initial release includes about 885,279 articles, generated using xAI's large-scale computing resources. Grokipedia features a minimalist homepage titled "Grokipedia v0.1", with a clean layout and a simple search bar for topic exploration. It provides concise, factual summaries supported by cited sources and continuous AI-based updates. Unlike Wikipedia's open editing model, users cannot directly modify articles. Instead, they can submit requests for corrections or updates through Grok, xAI's conversational assistant, which reviews and processes them. The platform is fully open source, allowing anyone to use or adapt its framework freely. Content, Licensing, and Reception Most early Grokipedia content is adapted from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license, though the lack of inline citations has drawn transparency concerns. Public reception has been mixed -- some users praise the platform's neutral tone and concise entries, while others note Musk-influenced framings, missing details, and potential AI bias or hallucinations. Musk said the launch was delayed to "purge out the propaganda" and ensure balanced coverage. Despite minor technical issues, many view Grokipedia as an early experiment in AI-driven knowledge creation. Built under xAI's goal of advancing truthful and accessible knowledge, Grokipedia represents a new direction for AI-based information platforms. As it evolves, its credibility, transparency, and accuracy will determine its long-term impact on how online knowledge is curated and consumed. Grokipedia is now live at Grokipedia.com. Users can sign in using their X accounts to browse or request updates. Currently, there are no official Android or iOS apps released by xAI.

Elon Musk launches Wikipedia's rival AI-powered Grokipedia. How to use it? Is it reliable?

Grokipedia content is generated by artificial intelligence (AI) and the generative AI assistant Grok. Elon Musk's company xAI has launched a website called Grokipedia to compete with online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which he and others on the American right wing have accused of ideological bias. The site, dubbed version 0.1, had more than 885,000 articles by Monday evening after its launch, compared to Wikipedia's more than seven million in English. The launch came with the promise of a newer version, 1.0, which Musk said would be "10X better" than the current live site, which he claimed is already "better than Wikipedia." Musk and the US Republican Party have frequently criticized Wikipedia, accusing a site that has become a living repository of human knowledge of being biased against right-wing ideas. Musk, the world's richest person and owner of social media platform X, poured hundreds of millions into US President Donald Trump's election campaign, and claimed Grokipedia would carry "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. "We will never be perfect, but we shall nonetheless strive towards that goal," he said on X following the launch. The content of Grokipedia is generated by artificial intelligence (AI) and the generative AI assistant Grok. Grokipedia's release had been slated for the end of September, but was delayed to "purge out the propaganda," Musk said in a separate X post. In 2024, Musk accused Wikipedia of being "controlled by far-left activists" and called for donations to the platform to cease. In August, he stopped Twitter from using Wikipedia as a "definitive source for Community Notes, as the editorial control there is extremely left-biased." Trump-aligned officials have also taken aim at the site since the Republican returned to power in January. In April, federal prosecutor Ed Martin, who was appointed by Trump but has since been replaced, threatened to investigate whether Wikipedia's parent organization Wikimedia was eligible for the tax exemption granted to foundations, accusing it of carrying propaganda. And in August, two Republican members of the House of Representatives launched an investigation into "organized efforts... to influence US public opinion on important and sensitive topics by manipulating Wikipedia articles." Created in 2001, Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia managed by volunteers, largely funded by donations. Its pages can be written or edited by internet users. A Grokipedia article about Musk states that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO "has influenced broader debates on technological progress, demographic decline, and institutional biases, often via X." It said his ownership of the social media platform "has prioritized content moderation reforms amid criticisms from legacy media outlets that exhibit systemic left-leaning tilts in coverage." Another example was the page devoted to right-wing journalist and commentator Tucker Carlson, which highlights his role in "challenging systemic biases in traditional journalism." The citation to that claim, however, links to a Newsweek article where the only corroboration is Carlson describing himself that way. Several right-wing figures welcomed the launch of Grokipedia. Hardline Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin described the article about him as "neutral, objective, accurate," whereas Wikipedia's page, according to him, was, "totally biased and defamatory." Asked about the launch of Grokipedia, Wikimedia spokesperson Majange said the organization was "still in the process of understanding how Grokipedia works."

AI-powered Grokipedia goes live as Elon Musk takes on 'Wokipedia':...

Elon Musk has launched an early version of Grokipedia, his AI-powered digital encyclopedia built to rival Wikipedia - which he has slammed as "Wokipedia," accusing it of leftist bias. Named after his firm xAI's chatbot Grok, the new website went live Monday after crashing for a few hours. "Grokipedia.com version 0.1 is now live. Version 1.0 will be 10X better, but even at 0.1 it's better than Wikipedia imo," Musk wrote in a post on X, his social media platform, on Monday. The tech titan has argued the new encyclopedia will be less biased than Wikipedia, which he has railed against for frequently citing news outlets like the New York Times and NPR. The Tesla and SpaceX founder said last month that he was working on a rival site following a suggestion from David Sacks, a billionaire tech entrepreneur who serves as President Trump's "AI and crypto czar." Grokipedia.com has a black background with a dark search bar in the middle of the page. The site said it had 885,279 articles as of Tuesday afternoon. Wikipedia - which launched in 2001 - boasts more than 7 million articles on the English version of the site alone. Its articles are written and edited by community volunteers, while Grokipedia's content comes from generative AI. Social media users were quick to compare the rival online encyclopedias' results for the same terms and phrases. Some praised Grokipedia, arguing it provided more honest responses, while others argued Musk's site had a right-leaning slant. When asked for comment on accusations of bias and inaccuracies, a press contact for xAI told The Post via email: "Legacy Media Lies." Wikipedia's page on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calls him a "conspiracy theorist" and "anti-vaccine activist" in its first sentence, alongside his work as a politician, author and lawyer. Grokipedia, meanwhile, focuses on RFK Jr.'s political career, not mentioning until later in the first paragraph that he has scrutinized "public health policies, particularly vaccine ingredients like thimerosal and the role of chronic disease in American health outcomes." "Wikipedia smears RFK Jr as a 'conspiracy theorist and anti-vaccine activist' in the first sentence, while Grokipedia sticks to the facts," a social media user wrote in a post. "I'm switching to Grokipedia." Musk's new encyclopedia drew some backlash for its page on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which cites the Kremlin multiple times. "Funny that Musk, who says Wikipedia is biased, lets Grokipedia use the Kremlin as a source. Totally unbiased," wrote one X user. Users also noted that Grokipedia and xAI's Grok chatbot commonly cite Wikipedia as a source. When asked, Grok will point out factual errors and logical fallacies in Grokipedia's own content. Wikipedia, for example, writes that George Floyd "was an African American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd had used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill." The corresponding page from Grokipedia states that Floyd "was an American man with a lengthy criminal record including convictions for armed robbery, drug possession, and theft in Texas from 1997 to 2007." When asked to review that page for errors and logical fallacies, Musk's chatbot responded: "The Grokipedia page appears heavily biased toward a skeptical or conservative 'alternative perspective,' emphasizing Floyd's criminal history, overdose theories, riot damages, and media critiques while downplaying or omitting consensus views on homicide and systemic racism." It added: "Unlike Wikipedia's neutral point of view, this page reads like an opinion piece, with loaded language." The types of content available on Grokipedia and Wikipedia also differ. While Wikipedia has a "Gaza genocide" page and a "Palestinian genocide accusation page," Grokipedia only offers the latter. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales told the Washington Post last week that he believed Grokipedia would have "a lot of errors" if it relied solely on AI language models. Larry Sanger, a Wikipedia co-founder who left in 2022 and has since criticized the site's leadership, has previously backed the idea of a Wikipedia rival. But on Monday, he posted a long thread on X delving into what he called inaccuracies in the Grokipedia article about himself. Wikipedia did not immediately respond to The Post's request for comment.

Grokipedia Goes Live: Elon Musk Unveils AI-Driven Knowledge Platform to Rival Wikipedia

Elon Musk Steps into the Information Domain with Grokipedia, Challenging Wikipedia Dominance with AI-Driven Information Elon Musk's xAI has officially launched Grokipedia, which is an AI-powered alternative to Wikipedia, designed to provide factual, bias-free, and conversational information. The Tesla boss announced that Wikipedia's AI rival Grokipedia is now live. Elon Musk first revealed the initiative in late September on his social media platform, X, describing it as "a massive improvement over Wikipedia" and "a necessary step towards the objective of understanding the Universe."

Musk launches Grokipedia to rival 'left-biased' Wikipedia - The Economic Times

Elon Musk's xAI launched Grokipedia, an AI-powered encyclopedia, to challenge Wikipedia, which Musk accuses of ideological bias. While currently smaller, Musk claims a future version will be "10X better" and focused on truth, contrasting with Wikipedia's volunteer-driven, human-created knowledge base.Elon Musk's company xAI launched Grokipedia on Monday to compete with online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which he has accused of ideological bias. The site dubbed version 0.1 had more than 885,000 articles by Monday evening, compared to Wikipedia's more than seven million in English. The launch came with the promise of a newer version, 1.0, which Musk said would be "10X better" than the current live site, which he claimed is already "better than Wikipedia." "The goal of Grok and Grokipedia.com is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. We will never be perfect, but we shall nonetheless strive towards that goal," he said on X following the launch. Grokipedia's release had been marked down for the end of September, but was delayed by the US entrepreneur to "purge out the propaganda," Musk said in a separate X post. Musk has been a regular critic of Wikipedia. In 2024, he accused the site of being "controlled by far-left activists" and called for donations to the platform to cease. In August, he said "Wikipedia cannot be used as a definitive source for Community Notes, as the editorial control there is extremely left-biased." The content of Grokipedia is generated by artificial intelligence (AI) and the generative AI assistant Grok. A Grokipedia article about Musk states that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has "influenced broader debates on technological progress, demographic decline, and institutional biases, often via X," amid what the page says are "criticisms from legacy media outlets that exhibit systemic left-leaning tilts in coverage." Created in 2001, Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia managed by volunteers, largely funded by donations, and whose pages can be written or edited by internet users. "Unlike newer projects, Wikipedia's strengths are clear: it has transparent policies, rigorous volunteer oversight, and a strong culture of continuous improvement," a spokeswoman from Wikimedia Foundation told AFP in an email. It claims the site is written to inform "billions of readers without promoting a particular point of view." When asked about the launch of Grokipedia, the spokeswoman said Wikimedia is "still in the process of understanding how Grokipedia works." She highlighted that Wikimedia "is - and always will be - human." "This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content, even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist." The birth of Grokipedia has been welcomed by several right-wing figures, including hardline Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin, who described the article about him as "neutral, objective, accurate" whereas Wikipedia's page, according to him is, "totally biased and defamatory." tu/ega/ane/rsc/ksb

Elon Musk launches Grokipedia to compete with online encyclopedia Wikipedia | BreakingNews

Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, a crowd-sourced online encyclopedia that the billionaire seeks to position as a rival to Wikipedia. Writing on social media, Mr Musk said that "Grokipedia.com version 0.1 is now live" and promised that "Version 1.0 will be 10X better". Grokipedia's goal is the "truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth", he said. Mr Musk has previously criticised Wikipedia for being filled with "propaganda" and called for people to stop donating to the site. In September, he announced that his artificial intelligence company xAI was working on Grokipedia. The Grokipedia site has a minimalist appearance with little beyond a search bar that users can type in queries. It states that it has 885,279 articles. Wikipedia, meanwhile, says it has more than seven million articles in English. Like Wikipedia, users can search for articles on various topics such as Taylor Swift, the baseball World Series, or Buckingham Palace. While Wikipedia is written and edited by volunteers, it is unclear how exactly Grokipedia articles are put together. Reports suggest the site is powered by the same xAI model that underpins Mr Musk's Grok chatbot, but some articles are seemingly adapted from Wikipedia. Grokipedia's entry on Wikipedia accuses the site of having "systemic ideological biases -- particularly a left-leaning slant in coverage of political figures and topics".

Elon Musk's Grokipedia copying Wikipedia? Here's all you need to know about the AI-powered encyclopedia

Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, an AI-powered encyclopedia developed by his artificial intelligence company xAI. Announcing the launch on X (formerly Twitter), Musk revealed that the platform is now live, describing it as a next-generation alternative to Wikipedia -- a platform he has repeatedly criticized for what he calls "editorial bias." "Grokipedia.com version 0.1 is now live. Version 1.0 will be 10x better, but even at 0.1 it's better than Wikipedia imo," Musk wrote on X. He further added that the ultimate goal of Grokipedia and the Grok AI chatbot is "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," acknowledging that while perfection is impossible, xAI aims to get as close as possible. Early users quickly noticed that certain Grokipedia pages feature content sourced from Wikipedia itself. For instance, entries on topics such as Nobel Prize and Monday include a small note that reads: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License." Although Musk has emphasized that Grokipedia articles are fact-checked by Grok -- xAI's conversational AI assistant -- users have reported spotting direct overlaps with Wikipedia text. Responding to a user pointing this out earlier this month, Musk admitted awareness of the issue, adding, "We should have this fixed by end of year." While both platforms aim to organize human knowledge, their approaches differ significantly: Content creation: Grokipedia's material is primarily generated or refined by xAI's language model, Grok, while Wikipedia's articles are written and updated by volunteer contributors. Transparency: Wikipedia allows open editing and a visible revision history. Grokipedia, in its early phase, restricts user edits and doesn't fully disclose edit histories. Business model: Wikipedia is run by a non-profit foundation and offers content under open licenses. Grokipedia, meanwhile, operates under xAI, a for-profit company, and integrates AI-generated content that could reflect algorithmic bias. Scale: Wikipedia currently hosts tens of millions of articles across hundreds of languages, while Grokipedia, still in version 0.1, has fewer than a million entries. In response to the launch, the Wikimedia Foundation -- which operates Wikipedia -- issued a statement reaffirming the value of human collaboration: "Wikipedia's knowledge is -- and always will be -- human. Through open collaboration and consensus, people from all backgrounds build a neutral, living record of human understanding. This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist." The foundation also noted that numerous attempts have been made to create AI or alternative versions of Wikipedia over the years, but such projects do not impact its mission to maintain freely accessible, community-driven knowledge.

After initial crash, Musk's Grokipedia is back online featuring massive AI encyclopedia

Elon Musk's Grokipedia has launched. This AI-powered encyclopedia aims to be a truthful alternative to Wikipedia. It uses AI for content management and fact-checking. Users cannot edit directly but can submit corrections. Early content reflects Musk's viewpoints. Grokipedia is expected to evolve with more AI-generated content and oversight. Its impact on online information will become clearer. Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk's much-anticipated AI-powered online encyclopedia, Grokipedia, officially launched on October 27, 2025, but not without a rocky start. The platform briefly went offline hours after going live, but soon returned to availability, now hosting over 885,000 articles. Grokipedia is powered by Grok, xAI's AI chatbot trained on real-time data, and represents Musk's vision of a "truthful and independent alternative" to Wikipedia, which he has long criticized for bias and propagandist content. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, however, has refuted these claims as factually incorrect. Musk has described Grokipedia as a "massive improvement over Wikipedia" and "a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe". Unlike Wikipedia's crowd-sourced editorial model that depends on volunteer editors, Grokipedia uses AI to manage, fact-check, and curate content. Users cannot directly edit articles but can submit corrections through a reporting system, aimed at avoiding typical edit conflicts. Grokkipedia's content is largely adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0, but it does not use Wikipedia's standard in-line source linking. This has raised some questions about transparency and sourcing. Social media users have already noted instances where the entries reflect Musk's personal worldview more explicitly than Wikipedia articles. Some users found the early content on Grokipedia reflecting Musk's conservative viewpoints, with some entries omitting facts present in Wikipedia or presenting alternative framings. While others are appreciating its fairness and neutrality in results. The platform's simple interface displays a minimalist homepage labeled "Grokipedia v0.1" alongside a search bar to explore its extensive knowledge base. As a beta version, it is expected to evolve with more original AI-generated content and increased editorial oversight. This release follows Musk's statements weeks prior about delaying the launch to conduct additional work to "purge out the propaganda" and ensure Grokipedia's content offers a balanced perspective. The platform's reception remains mixed, with supporters praising its innovative approach and critics warning of potential ideological skew and AI hallucination risks. Despite initial technical hiccups and public debate on bias and accuracy, Grokipedia marks an important development in AI-powered knowledge dissemination, reflecting growing interest in leveraging artificial intelligence to create and curate vast repositories of information at scale. As Grokipedia grows beyond this initial beta stage, its impact on the encyclopedia ecosystem and public trust in online information will become clearer.

Grokipedia: Elon Musk's free AI encyclopedia that no one asked for

Grokipedia risks turning knowledge transparency into algorithmic black box Elon Musk has announced Grokipedia, xAI's latest attempt at democratizing human knowledge. A free online encyclopedia with an AI twist, it promises to rival Wikipedia. The internet, of course, reacted the way it always does - with a collective eye roll and a dozen memes. Because, really, did we need another encyclopedia? Especially in an age where ChatGPT, Gemini, and Musk's own Grok already answer everything from who built the pyramids to why is my cat ignoring me (and everything in between that spectrum of human inquiry) faster than you can type the question. But Musk, as always, is not in the business of doing what's needed. He's in the business of doing what's possible. Even if it's for the lulz, or not. And that's where Grokipedia is pitched as an AI-native encyclopedia as "a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe." Also read: Elon Musk's AI-powered Wikipedia rival goes live: Here's how to use Grokipedia Powered by Grok's large language models, it's also supposed to be an antidote to Wikipedia's bias-prone human editors. In other words, Musk is trying to build a knowledge base that updates itself, debates itself, and possibly argues with you if you dare to correct it - if it ends up being inspired by X.com that is. The question, though, isn't whether Grokipedia can exist, but whether it should. The original promise of Wikipedia - full of human, citation-driven collaboration - still holds up remarkably well two decades on. It's confusingly messy and chaotic but at least it's transparent. You can see who edited what, when, and why. Its footnotes tell stories of trust and more importantly consensus, not algorithmic assertion. In contrast, an AI-curated encyclopedia risks becoming a black box of "facts," determined by probabilistic patterns that can be controlled and tweaked. And when truth itself starts getting mediated by a proprietary model, how do we know where knowledge ends and marketing begins? Also read: Grokipedia vs Wikipedia: Key differences explained Then there's the redundancy problem. Information doesn't need more places to live, but better ways to breathe. Between Wikipedia, Quora, Stack Overflow, Reddit threads, Medium essays, and LLMs scraping them all for training data, the internet already contains a near-infinite recursion of itself. Launching Grokipedia in 2025 feels a bit like opening a new bookstore inside the Library of Alexandria. It's impressive, for sure, but also slightly delusional maybe? If anything, what Musk's Grokipedia encyclopedia underscores is how slowly but surely the web's great collective memory, once rooted in hyperlinks and human editing, is slowly getting eroded. Grokipedia might be pitched as a "living system of knowledge," but unless it builds in radical transparency - open data, version history, human oversight - it risks becoming the loudest voice in a hall of mirrors. Maybe that's the point. Musk's ventures often serve less as practical products and more as philosophical provocations - prompts for the rest of us to ask what's broken, what's worth fixing. In that sense, Grokipedia isn't really about replacing Wikipedia. It's about staking a claim on how truth itself will be shaped in the post-search, post-human era of constructing and seeking trusted, verifiable information. I can't help but chuckle. The man who gave us self-driving cars and reusable rockets, now wants to reinvent the... encyclopedia of all things?! Somewhere out there, Jimmy Wales is probably sipping his tea, whispering "citation needed" into the void.

Elon Musk's AI-powered Wikipedia rival goes live: Here's how to use Grokipedia

Grokipedia doesn't respond to conversation-style prompts. Instead, it works more like a search engine. Elon Musk's much-talked-about project, Grokipedia, has officially gone live, marking the launch of what many are calling his alternative to Wikipedia. The AI-powered encyclopedia became available in the early hours of Tuesday, though it briefly crashed before coming back online. Unlike regular AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini or even Musk's own Grok, Grokipedia doesn't respond to conversation-style prompts. Instead, it works more like a search engine. Users simply need to type in the name of a topic they want to learn about, not a full question. For example, if you're looking for information about Paris, you should just type "Paris" instead of saying "Tell me something about Paris." Grokipedia will not understand or respond to chat-style prompts. Also read: Amazon to lay off 30,000 employees across divisions amid cost-cutting push: Report Using Grokipedia is straightforward. To use the new AI encyclopedia, users can go to Grokipedia.com and start searching for topics of interest. Musk earlier claimed that Grokipedia would be a "massive improvement" over Wikipedia. However, Grokipedia seems to borrow heavily from Wikipedia itself. Some articles reportedly include a note at the bottom stating: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License." Also read: Google Pixel 9a price drops by Rs 10,000 on Flipkart: How to grab this deal "Even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist," Lauren Dickinson, a spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia, tells The Verge. "Wikipedia's nonprofit independence -- with no ads and no data-selling -- also sets it apart from for-profit alternatives. All of these strengths have kept Wikipedia a top trusted resource for more than two decades." Whether Grokipedia will evolve into a true Wikipedia alternative or remain a heavily AI-powered mirror of it remains to be seen.