Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has officially launched Grokipedia, an AI-powered online encyclopedia positioned as a direct rival to Wikipedia — a platform Musk has often accused of ideological bias.
Launched on Monday as version 0.1, Grokipedia already features more than 885,000 articles, though that’s still far fewer than Wikipedia’s English edition, which hosts over seven million entries. Musk, however, promised that the upcoming version 1.0 will be “10X better,” claiming the current version is already “better than Wikipedia.”
Sharing the platform’s mission on X, Musk wrote, “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.”
Originally slated for a late September release, Grokipedia’s debut was delayed to allow Musk to “purge out the propaganda.”
Musk has long criticised Wikipedia, alleging that the site is “controlled by far-left activists” and that its editorial policies reflect “extreme left bias.” He has also argued that this makes Wikipedia unreliable as a factual source for X’s Community Notes.
Grokipedia’s entries are largely generated by artificial intelligence through xAI’s chatbot assistant, Grok.
Interestingly, Grokipedia’s own article on Elon Musk highlights his influence on “technological progress, demographic decline, and institutional biases, often via X,” while noting that he has faced criticism from “legacy media outlets that exhibit systemic left-leaning tilts in coverage.”
By contrast, Wikipedia, founded in 2001, remains a collaborative, volunteer-driven platform funded by public donations and operating under a self-declared policy of maintaining a neutral point of view.
