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=== Launch ===

=== Launch ===

Grokipedia launched on October 27 at grokipedia.com, with fewer than 900,000 articles, compared to Wikipedia’s 7 million.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Conger |first=Kate |date=October 27, 2025 |title=Elon Musk Challenges Wikipedia With His Own A.I. Encyclopedia |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/technology/grokipedia-launch-elon-musk.html |access-date=October 26, 2025 |website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Some articles are nearly identical to their Wikipedia entries, but the format of Grokipedia citations is different.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bell |first=Karissa |date=2025-10-27 |title=X’s Grokipedia is online after it briefly crashed out |url=https://www.engadget.com/social-media/xs-grokipedia-is-online-after-it-briefly-crashed-out-231108836.html |access-date=2025-10-28 |website=Engadget |language=en-US}}</ref> The site indicated that it was an early “0.1” version<ref name=”:1″ /> and experienced a brief outage shortly after launch.<ref name=”:2″ />

Grokipedia launched on October 27 at grokipedia.com, with fewer than 900,000 articles, compared to Wikipedia’s 7 million.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Conger |first=Kate |date=October 27, 2025 |title=Elon Musk Challenges Wikipedia With His Own A.I. Encyclopedia |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/technology/grokipedia-launch-elon-musk.html |access-date=October 26, 2025 |website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Some articles are nearly identical to their Wikipedia entries, but the format of Grokipedia citations is different.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bell |first=Karissa |date=2025-10-27 |title=X’s Grokipedia is online after it briefly crashed out |url=https://www.engadget.com/social-media/xs-grokipedia-is-online-after-it-briefly-crashed-out-231108836.html |access-date=2025-10-28 |website=Engadget |language=en-US}}</ref> The site indicated that it was an early “0.1” version<ref name=”:1″ /> and experienced a brief outage shortly after launch.<ref name=”:2″ />

== Controversy ==

== False Information ==

== False Information ==

Revision as of 08:42, 28 October 2025

AI-powered encyclopedia

Grokipedia

Screenshot of Grokipedia’s home page in October 2025

Type of site

 Online encyclopedia
Available in English
Owner xAI
Created by Grok
Editor xAI
URL grokipedia.com
Commercial No
Launched October 27, 2025 (2025-10-27)
Current status Active

Content license

 Some articles under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0

Grokipedia is a conservative-leaning artificial intelligence-powered online encyclopedia developed by xAI, an artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk. Launched on October 27, 2025.[1][2] The content in grokipedia is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.[3] Musk positioned Grokipedia as an alternative to Wikipedia which would “purge out the propaganda” in the latter.[1]

As of October 28, 2025, the site features more than 885,000 AI-generated articles.[4] Entries are created and edited by the Grok language model.[1] Many articles are derived from Wikipedia articles, with some articles observed to be copied nearly verbatim.[5][6] Articles indicate that they have undergone fact-checking by the Grok model.[5] Some content has been noted to align with Musk’s personal views on topics such as gender transition and former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal.[1][7][8]

History

Announcement

In September 2025, Musk announced xAI was building a new AI-generated online encyclopedia, to be called Grokipedia, amid his ongoing criticisms of Wikipedia’s alleged biases.[9][10] The project was suggested and named by David O. Sacks at the All-In podcast conference earlier that month.[11] According to Musk’s announcement, it would be an AI-powered knowledge base designed to rival Wikipedia by addressing its perceived biases, errors, and ideological slants.[12][13] Gizmodo compared the plan to the 2006 Conservapedia project.[14]

On October 6, 2025, Musk announced that the early beta version of Grokipedia was scheduled for release later that month.[15][16] The project was postponed briefly in October to address content quality issues.[1]

Launch

Grokipedia launched on October 27 at grokipedia.com, with fewer than 900,000 articles, compared to Wikipedia’s 7 million.[17] Some articles are nearly identical to their Wikipedia entries, but the format of Grokipedia citations is different.[18] The site indicated that it was an early “0.1” version[5] and experienced a brief outage shortly after launch.[4]

Controversy

False Information

Following the public launch the Grokipidia, it was criticised for publishing false information. The wired reported “The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.”[19]

Reception

A screenshot of the Grokipedia article on Musk

Grokipedia has received mixed coverage, with some observers questioning its neutrality due to AI’s potential to reflect creator biases.[20][7] Critics have highlighted entries that promote far-right perspectives or favor Musk’s viewpoints.[8] NBC News noted that the Grokipedia entry for Musk did not mention the hand gesture he made in January 2025, which many viewed as a Nazi salute, while Wikipedia’s article does.[6]

A spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation commented that “even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist” and disputed characterizations of Wikipedia as being biased.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Conger, Kate (October 27, 2025). “Elon Musk Challenges Wikipedia With His Own A.I. Encyclopedia”. The New York Times.
  2. ^ “Elon Musk appears to have launched Grokipedia, a Wikipedia competitor”. Business Insider. October 28, 2025.
  3. ^ Peters, Jay (October 28, 2025). “Elon Musk’s Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages”. The Verge. Retrieved October 28, 2025.
  4. ^ a b “Elon Musk’s Grokipedia goes live after brief crash, aims to rival Wikipedia”. Moneycontrol. October 28, 2025.
  5. ^ a b c d Peters, Jay (October 28, 2025). “Elon Musk’s Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages”. The Verge. Retrieved October 28, 2025.
  6. ^ a b “Elon Musk launches Grokipedia as an alternative to ‘woke’ Wikipedia”. NBC News. October 28, 2025. Retrieved October 28, 2025.
  7. ^ a b “Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points”. Wired. October 28, 2025.
  8. ^ a b “Elon Musk launches a Wikipedia rival that extols his own ‘vision’“. The Washington Post. October 28, 2025.
  9. ^ Gupta, Aman. “‘Grokipedia’: Elon Musk says xAI is working on a Wikipedia rival powered by AI”. Live Mint.
  10. ^ Gucia, Wiktoria (September 30, 2025). “MAGA Melts Down Over Wikipedia ‘Blacklist’“. The Daily Beast. Retrieved September 30, 2025.
  11. ^ Higgins, Tim (October 4, 2025). “Why Conservatives Are Attacking ‘Wokepedia’“. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  12. ^ Kan, Michael (September 30, 2025). “Elon Musk Plans to Take on Wikipedia With ‘Grokipedia’“. PCMAG. Retrieved September 30, 2025.
  13. ^ Musk, Elon [@elonmusk] (September 29, 2025). “We are building Grokipedia @xAI . Will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia. Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe” (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  14. ^ Novak, Matt (September 30, 2025). “Elon Musk’s Wikipedia Competitor Is Going to Be a Disaster”. Gizmodo. Retrieved October 2, 2025.
  15. ^ “What Is Grokipedia? Elon Musk To Unveil Wikipedia Competitor In Two Weeks”. NDTV. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  16. ^ “Elon Musk: ‘Grokipedia’ Arrives Later This Month”. PCMAG. October 6, 2025. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  17. ^ Conger, Kate (October 27, 2025). “Elon Musk Challenges Wikipedia With His Own A.I. Encyclopedia”. The New York Times. Retrieved October 26, 2025.
  18. ^ Bell, Karissa (October 27, 2025). “X’s Grokipedia is online after it briefly crashed out”. Engadget. Retrieved October 28, 2025.
  19. ^ Rogers, Reece. “Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points”. Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved October 28, 2025.
  20. ^ “Grokipedia: Elon Musk is right that Wikipedia is biased, but his AI alternative will be the same at best”. The Conversation. October 15, 2025.

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