US EditionElon Musk Launches Own Version of Wikipedia: Grokipedia
Grokipedia launched with 800,000 articles, aims to counter perceived liberal bias on Wikipedia using AI-generated content from Musk’s Grok AI, striving for unbiased truth.
- On Monday, Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia he announced on Oct. 27 as a Wikipedia competitor built on xAI's Grok.
- Musk said Wikipedia is controlled by 'far-left activists,' so Grokipedia's stated aim is to offer truth and impartiality using Grok-generated articles.
- At launch, Grokipedia held 800,000 articles versus Wikipedia's over 8 million, mirroring Wikipedia's minimalist structure while users can send feedback though editing levels are unclear.
- Users noticed differences between Wikipedia and Grokipedia, with entries portraying Musk as an `innovative visionary with irreverent provocateur`, while observers warned controlling content concentrates power amid Musk's quarter-billion-dollar investment in the 2024 U.S. election.
- In recent years, Wikipedia has faced sustained attacks that intensified in 2025, while external analysts report AI data centers tax public resources and emit significant carbon.
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Elon Musk attacks Wikipedia in front with Grokipedia. It's an online encyclopedia that uses theIA to write articles on various topics. Here are four things that surprised us.
On Monday evening, Elon Musk unveiled "Grokipedia," an online encyclopedia based solely on articles generated by artificial intelligence. The project is intended as an alternative to Wikipedia, which Musk and his supporters have repeatedly called biased and overly politicized.
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