Elon Musk’s xAI Launches Grokipedia, a Rival to Wikipedia.
Elon Musk has officially stepped into the world of online encyclopedias. His artificial intelligence firm, xAI, launched a new platform called Grokipedia on Monday, setting it up as a direct competitor to the long-established Wikipedia.
Musk has been a vocal critic of Wikipedia for some time, arguing that the platform suffers from a strong ideological slant. Grokipedia, which is powered by Musk’s Grok AI, is being positioned as an alternative focused on factual reporting.
“The goal of Grok and Grokipedia.com is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth,” Musk posted on his social media platform, X. “We will never be perfect, but we shall nonetheless strive towards that goal.”
The launch of the site, labeled version 0.1, was initially planned for the end of September. Musk explained the delay was necessary to “purge out the propaganda” from the system.
Upon its debut, Grokipedia contained more than 885,000 articles. While a substantial number, it is much smaller than the English version of Wikipedia, which offers over seven million entries. Musk, however, is confident in the new platform’s quality, claiming the current site is already “better than Wikipedia” and promising that a future version 1.0 will be “10X better.”
The core of the disagreement lies in Musk’s view of Wikipedia’s editorial process. He has previously said the site is “controlled by far-left activists” and that its “extremely left-biased” control makes it an unreliable source for features on his own X platform.
Unlike Wikipedia, which relies on a global community of volunteers to write and edit content, Grokipedia’s entries are primarily generated by artificial intelligence. This approach is evident even on the site’s own page about Musk. The entry describes him as a figure who has “influenced broader debates on technological progress, demographic decline, and institutional biases, often via X,” while also facing “criticisms from legacy media outlets that exhibit systemic left-leaning tilts in coverage.”
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This move creates a clear divide in the model for sourcing public knowledge: one built on collaborative human effort and donations, and the other driven by proprietary AI technology. Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has maintained that its content is guided by a “neutral point of view.” Grokipedia now challenges that claim, promising a new path to what its creator calls “the truth.”
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