Wikipedia remains the world's largest online encyclopedia with over six million English articles maintained by volunteers. Yet Elon Musk has repeatedly called it biased and filled with propaganda, prompting xAI to release a direct competitor in 2025.
Grokipedia launched on October 27, 2025, as version 0.1. The site uses Grok to generate, fact-check, and expand articles with the stated goal of delivering unbiased truth.
What Is Grokipedia?
Grokipedia is a fully AI-generated online encyclopedia developed by xAI. It contains over 800,000 articles, most derived from Wikipedia entries that Grok rewrites, corrects, adds context to, or expands using additional internet sources.
The interface mimics Wikipedia but remains minimalist. Users can highlight text, flag errors, suggest fixes, or ask Grok for clarification directly on the page.
Launch and Development
Musk first teased the project in late September 2025, describing it as a necessary step toward understanding the universe. The team delayed the initial release to purge perceived propaganda further.
At launch, Musk declared even version 0.1 superior to Wikipedia on average. He emphasized the site is fully open source and free for any use.
Later, Musk announced the name will change to Encyclopedia Galactica once quality improves significantly. The long-term vision includes preserving copies in orbit, on the Moon, and Mars.
How It Works
Grok processes Wikipedia articles and researches the broader internet to identify inaccuracies, missing context, or bias. It then rewrites entries from first principles while aiming to eliminate activist influence.
Logged-in users can propose corrections that Grok evaluates in real time. Some pages show edit histories highlighting what changed and why.
Key Differences from Wikipedia
Many articles match Wikipedia text 90-96% while omitting citation sections or altering tone. Certain entries add substantial new detail or shift framing noticeably.
PolitiFact and independent reviews found frequent citation errors, unsupported claims, and occasional hallucinations typical of large language models.
Criticisms and Bias Concerns
Multiple outlets quickly identified patterns favoring right-leaning viewpoints. Entries on politically charged topics have included controversial claims about AIDS, transgender issues, slavery, and media bias that align with Musk's public positions.
Wired reported the encyclopedia pushes far-right talking points in several articles, including unsupported assertions about social contagion in gender identity and ideological critiques of mainstream history projects.
Al Jazeera's November 2025 analysis concluded loose fact-checking and weak or missing citations make many claims unreliable, despite the “Fact-checked by Grok” label.
Joseph Reagle, a Northeastern University professor who studies online communities, noted Wikipedia's strength lies in thousands of human editors diligently refining content over years—something pure AI generation cannot yet replicate effectively.
The Wikimedia Foundation stressed that Wikipedia's transparent, community-driven process and rigorous sourcing remain superior to opaque algorithmic rewriting.
Current Status and Outlook
As of mid-November 2025, Grokipedia remains in early beta with active development. xAI continues incorporating user feedback and improving Grok's reasoning capabilities.
The project underscores the accelerating shift toward AI-mediated knowledge. Whether Grokipedia evolves into a credible alternative or remains a polarizing experiment will depend on how effectively xAI addresses accuracy, transparency, and bias concerns in future versions.
Grokipedia forces a broader reckoning with trust in online information sources. Its trajectory could influence how future generations access and evaluate human knowledge.
