Elon Musk appears to have launched Grokipedia, an alternative to Wikipedia, on Monday.
Musk said on X last month that the team at xAI was working on Grokipedia.
Grokipedia.com was live on Monday afternoon, but some users reported experiencing errors with the site, according to the Washington Post.
screenshot
Business Insider was able to access Grokipedia.com shortly before 7:30 p.m. ET and view an entry for Musk himself. The page features a search bar on a dark background, and a font style reminiscent of Wikipedia. It is currently billed as v0.1 and says on the homepage that it has 885,279 articles, while Wikipedia has more than 8 million entries.
screenshot
The project marks Musk’s latest attempt to challenge mainstream platforms he deems politically biased. Once an admirer of Wikipedia, Musk has accused it of harboring liberal viewpoints earlier this year and urged followers to “defund Wikipedia until balance is restored.”
Early Grokipedia pages suggested a conservative tilt.
Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales told the Washington Post in an interview last week that he didn’t have high expectations for Grokipedia because AI language models aren’t sophisticated enough and “there will be a lot of errors.”
Grokipedia wrote in Musk’s entry that former Ohio candidate Vivek Ramaswamy took up a prominent role in DOGE after Musk’s departure, when Ramaswamy actually left the group before it became part of Trump’s administration in January.
Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Musk’s xAI, has drawn criticism in the past for a series of high-profile mistakes. In one instance, the bot promoted a baseless conspiracy theory about “white genocide” in South Africa after being asked unrelated questions. Musk and X have addressed these errors and promised fixes.
Representatives for Musk, X, xAI, and Wikipedia did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
