Elon Musk has officially entered the world of online encyclopedias. On Monday, the billionaire announced the launch of Grokipedia, an AI-driven alternative to Wikipedia, developed by his artificial intelligence company, xAI.
Musk called it “a massive improvement over Wikipedia” and “a necessary step towards the xAI objective of understanding the universe.”
https://t.co/op5s4ZiSwh version 0.1 is now live.
Version 1.0 will be 10X better, but even at 0.1 it’s better than Wikipedia imo.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2025
Musk described Grokipedia as a “truth-seeking knowledge base” powered by Grok, xAI’s large language model that already drives responses on X. The goal, according to Musk, is to build a less “politically biased” alternative to Wikipedia—one that leans on generative AI to produce real-time, editable knowledge pages.
But the debut didn’t go smoothly. Grokipedia’s early iteration closely mirrored Wikipedia’s layout, complete with pages on ChatGPT, Diane Keaton, and the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Its content base, however, appeared far thinner, its editorial process opaque, and its tone distinctly more right-leaning on certain cultural and political topics.
The platform’s page on Musk himself took an unmistakably flattering tone, describing his AI ventures as emphasizing “truth-oriented development rather than heavy regulation” and highlighting “xAI’s rapid iteration” and “reduced censorship.” Yet one section on the U.S. DOGE Service contained a factual inaccuracy about Ohio politician Vivek Ramaswamy, falsely describing him as having remained with the group after it joined the Trump administration.
Despite the hiccups, Musk insists Grokipedia’s mission is about transparency and openness. In a post replying to gamer and developer Mark Kern—who praised Grokipedia’s “truthful” coverage of the controversial Gamergate saga—Musk wrote, “Cool. I’m reading these for the first time, btw. Grok generated about 1M articles using a lot of compute. You will be able to ask Grok to add/modify/delete articles and it will either take the action or tell you it won’t and why.”
A day after launch, Grokipedia returned online intermittently. Users testing the site found that it performed well on broad queries like “Climate Change,” offering well-sourced, clearly structured summaries with citations from NASA and scientific databases. But niche searches—such as “Gemini Nano Banana”—returned no results, revealing how limited its database remains.
Still, early testers noted that Grokipedia’s tone feels more neutral than some expected, and its clean presentation gives it the polish of a serious competitor. “From my brief testing, Grokipedia shows potential as a fast, structured, and well-sourced knowledge tool,” wrote one reviewer. “Its interface and tone feel comparable to Wikipedia, but its coverage remains limited.”
For now, Grokipedia remains in early beta. But Musk, as ever, is thinking long-term. If xAI can expand the database, enforce transparent sourcing, and manage the ideological tightrope, Grokipedia could become a formidable contender in the digital knowledge space—one that, true to Musk’s ambitions, aims to redefine not just how we access information, but who gets to shape it.
