Billionaire Elon Musk announced the launch of 'Grokipedia', an online encyclopedia written by AI, on Monday. He called the website a “massive improvement” over the online encyclopedia Wikipedia and promoted it as a “less biased” alternative to the popular site.
The website went offline for a few hours after it went live, but is now back up. However, it can only be accessed via a link and does not appear in search results. It currently has over 885,000 articles and says that it is a V0.1 version on the homepage.
The website is powered by Grok, xAI’s AI chatbot, which is trained on real-time data.
Musk has been a long-time critic of Wikipedia for its “biased and propagandist’ content. The Tesla CEO has often criticised Wikipedia for being biased. He announced the Grokipedia on X by reposting a comment by David Sack, a tech investor who called the site ‘hopelessly biased” and led by an “army of left-wing activists.”
On a post on Twitter, he called it “a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe.”
Last month, when one X user pointed out that Grok cited to Wikipedia pages to answer queries, Musk said, “I know. We should have this fixed by the end of the year. “
We are building Grokipedia @xAI.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 30, 2025
Will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia.
Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe. https://t.co/xvSeWkpALy
Ironically enough, the current top search result for ‘Grokipedia’ is the Wikipedia page about Musk’s new site.
The homepage of the new site is very similar to that of Wikipedia and has similar headings, subheadings, and citations.
The Verge reported that some of Grokipedia’s articles are word-for-word copied from the iconic site, with pages even showing a message saying “The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.”
Some of the results on the site are conservative-leaning. For example, the pages on gender and climate change between the two sites differ.
Many users who tested out the new encyclopedia highlighted examples of articles that contained unverified information and passages copied from Wikipedia, the Washington Post reported.
However, users also reported on X that the website was able to present more factual information in some instances, like certain scientific queries, compared to Wikipedia.
Lauren Dikinson, a spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation, told the Verge, “Even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist.”
In a statement, Dickinson said, “Wikipedia’s knowledge is – and always will be – human. Through open collaboration and consensus, people from all backgrounds build a neutral, living record of human understanding – one that reflects our diversity and collective curiosity. This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content.”
“Wikipedia’s nonprofit independence — with no ads and no data-selling — also sets it apart from for-profit alternatives. All of these strengths have kept Wikipedia a top trusted resource for more than two decades,” the statement continued. The website currently has over 7 million pages in English.
Grokipedia has only been up for a few hours, and it remains to be seen whether it could rival highly regarded Wikipedia in presenting more factual, unbiased information to its users.
