Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, an AI-generated online encyclopedia tied to his xAI chatbot Grok, positioning it as a challenger to Wikipedia. Musk said on X that his goal is to build “an open source, comprehensive collection of all knowledge,” after repeatedly criticizing what he calls Wikipedia’s left-leaning bias.
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia went online on Monday, Oct. 27, integrating Grok, the large language model from his company xAI, and casting itself as an alternative to Wikipedia. NPR’s roundup of how the two sites describe each other notes that Musk referred to Wikipedia as “Wokepedia” in a December post and has framed Grokipedia as a response to perceived ideological tilt on the older site. AP and NBC News likewise report the launch and its reliance on Grok for content generation and review.
Early usage highlights the contrast between the platforms. According to NPR’s report, a Grokipedia search for “Wikipedia” returned 6,047 results early Wednesday (Oct. 29). A search on Wikipedia for “Grokipedia” produced 13 results, including a dedicated entry. Two days after launch, searching “Grokipedia” on Grokipedia itself surfaced eight results—mostly pages about Wikipedia—and typing “grokipedia” into the URL returned the message, “This page doesn’t exist … yet.”
Grokipedia’s article about Wikipedia praises the site’s scale and accessibility but emphasizes what it calls persistent problems: factual unreliability, susceptibility to vandalism and hoaxes, and “systemic ideological biases—particularly a left-leaning slant.” It argues that Wikipedia’s pursuit of a neutral point of view can end up reflecting biases from academia and major media outlets.
Wikipedia’s entry on Grokipedia, meanwhile, says Musk positioned the project to “purge out the propaganda” and notes that Wikipedia co‑founder Larry Sanger welcomed its arrival. The page also summarizes external criticism of Grokipedia—among them that its article about Musk omits mention of a controversy over a gesture “many viewed as resembling a Nazi salute,” that the site leans right in tone, that it relies heavily on AI tools, and that some articles are nearly identical to Wikipedia’s. NPR cites Grokipedia’s “Buttocks” page as one example, which acknowledges its content was adapted from Wikipedia.
The projects also diverge in how edits happen. NPR reports that, like Wikipedia, Grokipedia shows edit histories. But while Wikipedia allows direct editing by volunteers, Grokipedia invites users to ask questions and submit corrections rather than edit pages themselves.
Musk has said publicly that Grok reviews sources such as Wikipedia pages and then “rewrite[s] the page to … remove the falsehoods, correct the half‑truths and add the missing context,” a description he offered at the All‑In Podcast conference in September.
On size and scope, NPR notes that Wikipedia describes Grokipedia as having “about 900,000 AI‑generated articles” as of Oct. 28; Grokipedia’s own landing page that day listed 885,279. Grokipedia’s article on Wikipedia accurately states that the English‑language Wikipedia topped 7 million articles by October 2025, but elsewhere on the same page says “over 6.8 million,” a discrepancy. Wikipedia’s own running tally shows the English site exceeded 6.9 million articles in January 2025.
The Wikimedia Foundation told NPR: “Wikipedia’s knowledge is — and always will be — human,” adding that AI systems, including Grokipedia, build on that human‑created record: “even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist.”
