Musk Unveils Grokipedia, an AI-Built Alternative to Wikipedia
The announcement sparked mixed reactions on X.
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Elon Musk has announced the launch of Grokipedia.com (version 0.1), describing it as an open-source, AI-generated knowledge platform meant to rival Wikipedia.
Sharing the news on X, Musk wrote, “Version 1.0 will be 10X better, but even at 0.1 it’s better than Wikipedia imo.”
Musk said Grokipedia is fully open source and free to use, and framed the project, which is tied to his xAI chatbot Grok, as pursuing “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”
The platform’s current version reportedly features around one million AI-generated articles, created using “a lot of compute,” Musk said.
Users will eventually be able to ask Grok to add, modify, or delete articles, with the system either performing the action or explaining why it won’t.
Some users noted that Grokipedia briefly went offline after launch and then came back, and that many of its pages resemble or directly adapt Wikipedia content under a Creative Commons license.
The announcement sparked mixed reactions on X. Some users praised the effort, calling it a bold move against institutional bias.
One wrote, “Grokipedia does a better job of unyielding to institutional biases than Wiki.” Another added that it already rivals Wikipedia on many topics and “will obviously be better within a year.”
Others expressed unease, pointing out that Wikipedia’s strength has always been its human contributors. One user commented, “Wikipedia was built by real people, not for profit. It just feels wrong… not to hate on new inventions though.”
