Ilon Musk has launched Grokipedia, an AI competitor to Wikipedia

The xAI company has unveiled Grokipedia v0.1, an online encyclopedia with 885,000 articles labeled “Grok verified,” after a brief launch failure.

Elon Musk and his company xAI have launched Grokipedia, a new encyclopedia created by artificial intelligence and positioned as an alternative to Wikipedia. The service launched in Grokipedia v0.1, with a minimalist design and search-based interaction model.

After the launch, the site briefly stopped responding due to an influx of users, but was soon back up and running. At launch, Grokipedia had around 885,000 articles – considerably fewer than Wikipedia, but the scale of the project shows the ambition of xAI.

After launching, the site briefly stopped responding due to the influx of users, but soon recovered.

Many of the contributions are based on Wikipedia content and carry a Creative Commons tag confirming the use of open data with editorial adaptations. The subject matter and wording in many cases reflect the worldview of Ilon Musk, giving the project its own ideological emphasis.

Many of the materials are based on content from Wikipedia and are Creative Commons-labeled to support the use of open data with editorial adaptations.

Mask said Grokipedia is intended to be a response to the “bias of traditional platforms.” He announced the launch succinctly, “Grokipedia.com version 0.1 is live.” Fact-checking in the system is performed by xAI’s Grok language model – each article is labeled “verified by Grok.” Users cannot edit texts directly, but they can submit suggestions for corrections.

The Wikimedia Foundation emphasized that Wikipedia’s strength is in collective knowledge and verification through human consensus. Some analysts have already noted the selective filing of data on sensitive topics.

Wikimedia Foundation has also emphasized that Wikipedia’s strength is its collective knowledge and verification through human consensus.

The launch of Grokipedia complements Musk’s ecosystem of projects, including social platform X and chatbot Grok. Together, they form a media technology infrastructure through which the entrepreneur aims to control the level of access to and interpretation of information in real time.