Elon Musk launches Grokipedia to rival Wikipedia
A major development in the world of online knowledge emerged this week as Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence firm xAI officially launched Grokipedia, a new AI-powered online encyclopedia positioned as a direct rival to Wikipedia.
Grokipedia, unveiled on October 27 2025, entered the public domain with approximately 885,000 entries — a striking contrast to Wikipedia’s more than 7–8 million English-language articles. The platform is described as entirely AI-written: its content is generated by xAI’s Grok model and users cannot directly edit articles as they can on Wikipedia.
Musk introduced Grokipedia as “version 0.1” and asserted that its development is already “better than Wikipedia” while promising a future version “10× better.” His stated motivation stems in part from his belief that Wikipedia suffers from ideological bias, which he has publicly attacked as “controlled by far-left activists.”
The launch has triggered a wave of scrutiny and debate. On one side, supporters see Grokipedia as an innovative next step in leveraging AI to organise and deliver knowledge. On the other, critics warn of risks: early reviews highlight that many Grokipedia articles appear to replicate text from Wikipedia verbatim or with minimal alteration, and some articles are reported to push conservative narratives or contain questionable assertions.
For example, one entry on Grokipedia begins the topic of gender with “the binary classification of humans as male or female based on biological sex,” in contrast to Wikipedia’s more expansive phrasing about social, psychological and cultural dimensions of gender.
The Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees Wikipedia, responded by reaffirming Wikipedia’s volunteer-driven, transparent model of knowledge creation and raised questions about how Grokipedia’s AI system will handle accuracy, bias and source verification.
