Elon Musk Launches AI-Powered Grokipedia
Elon Musk has announced the launch of Grokipedia, an AI-driven encyclopedia intended to rival Wikipedia. The Tesla CEO promoted the xAI startup's Grokipedia as 'Version 1.0 will be 10X better,' and claimed, 'even at 0.1 it’s better than Wikipedia.' Users can access the platform by searching for Grokipedia on Google or visiting Grokipedia.com.
Musk first revealed the initiative in late September on his social media platform X, describing it as 'a massive improvement over Wikipedia' and 'a necessary step towards the xAI objective of understanding the Universe.' The platform's minimalist homepage features the title 'Grokipedia v0.1' and a simple search bar for user queries.
This venture represents Musk's latest effort to leverage Grok, the ChatGPT-like AI system developed by his company xAI, to provide a more unrestrained, ideologically alternative counterpart to established mainstream digital platforms. On Monday, Musk introduced an early iteration of Grokipedia, an AI-generated online encyclopedia, though the site ceased functioning shortly after its launch.
The billionaire entrepreneur has promoted the project as a less biased alternative to the long-established Wikipedia. However, the platform remained publicly accessible for only around an hour before restricting access to visitors. At the time of its debut on Monday afternoon, Grokipedia closely mirrored Wikipedia’s visual and structural layout, featuring entries on subjects such as ChatGPT, Diane Keaton, and the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Reports from The Washington Post and Wired suggest that Elon Musk’s Grokipedia has been criticized for advancing far-right talking points. Both publications highlighted examples such as the platform’s definitions of gender and its treatment of topics relating to transgender people. In one instance, Grokipedia’s entry on gender opened with the statement: 'Gender refers to the binary classification of humans as male or female based on biological sex.'
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia entry presented a markedly different portrayal of the entrepreneur compared with his corresponding Wikipedia page. The article depicted several of his ventures in notably laudatory language, asserting that his work in artificial intelligence 'emphasizes AI safety through truth-oriented development rather than heavy regulation.' These claims were attributed directly to xAI’s official website.