Tuesday, October 28, 2025 - 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.
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