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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture, xAI, has unveiled a new platform called Grokipedia, setting it up as a direct challenger to Wikipedia, a site he has frequently criticised for ideological slant.
The initial launch, described as version 0.1, already featured over 885,000 articles by Monday evening. That remains far fewer than Wikipedia’s English-language total of more than seven million entries, but Musk has pointed to ambitious upgrades ahead.
He has promised that version 1.0 is on the way, claiming it would be “10X better” than the current iteration, which he argued 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,” Musk wrote in a post on X after the launch went live.
Originally, the rollout had been planned for late September, though Musk delayed the release in order to “purge out the propaganda,” as he put it in a separate post on the same platform.
Musk has repeatedly taken aim at Wikipedia over the years. Back in 2024, he alleged that the encyclopaedia was “controlled by far-left activists” and urged users to stop contributing donations. He also argued in August that “Wikipedia cannot be used as a definitive source for Community Notes, as the editorial control there is extremely left-biased.”
Grokipedia relies on artificial intelligence for its articles, with content generated through xAI systems including the company’s conversational assistant, Grok.
One entry focused on Musk himself says the billionaire head of Tesla and SpaceX has “influenced broader debates on technological progress, demographic decline, and institutional biases, often via X,” while noting what it calls “criticisms from legacy media outlets that exhibit systemic left-leaning tilts in coverage.”
Wikipedia, founded in 2001, is built and maintained collaboratively by volunteers. It operates largely through donations and allows users across the world to write and edit entries. The site maintains that it is committed to a “neutral point of view” in its reporting and content decisions.
