Elon Musk’s company xAI launched Grokipedia on Monday, October 27th, to compete with online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which the tech mogul has accused of ideological bias.
The site dubbed version 0.1 had published more than 885,000 articles by Monday evening, compared to Wikipedia’s seven million (and counting) 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.” Taking to X, he claimed
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 has been a frequent 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.
The content of Grokipedia is generated by artificial intelligence (AI) and the generative AI assistant Grok.
