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By Jennifer Asencio | Published
On October 27, 2025, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI launched Grokipedia. The site is intended to be a crowd-sourced online knowledge base and encyclopedia. It is also a direct competitor to Wikipedia, which has angered both Wiki and anti-Musk media sites like cabling.
Grokipedia It works by automated fact-checking, collecting information from all over the internet and putting together referenced articles based on what it has collected. Users cannot edit it directly, but they can question it and submit corrections for consideration. This is in direct contrast to Wikipedia, which users can edit directly.
Musk versus the opposition media
Musk and others, including Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, have accused the Wikipedia model of being abused by institutions to promote certain views and demonize others. Musk has said that Grokipedia is specifically designed to “purge” the same type of “propaganda.”
Both Wikipedia and cabling He responded very quickly trying to discredit Grokipedia. Ironically, Wikipedia criticized Grokipedia’s use of Wiki’s own archives as the basis for some of its articles. Both Wiki and cabling He also accused Grokipedia of being “right-wing” and only promoting Musk’s point of view. cabling They shared some articles they opposed, such as one on transgender issues, including the term “transgenderism,” and one on slavery that they say criticizes the 1619 Project. Wiki criticized Grokipedia for not including Musk’s so-called “Nazi salute” in his biography.
Grokipedia Supporters
Despite Wikipedia and cabling Trying to narrate public opinion, Grokipedia was well received by many media personalities. Larry Sanger, who left Wikipedia because he felt it was ideologically captured, was particularly excited about it and sent questions to Musk about how Grokipedia crawls the Internet for its data. Mark Kern, co-developer of World of Warcraft, was baffled and published several posts claiming that Grokipedia was going to change everything. Author Larry Correia, who, like Sanger, compared his entries on both Wiki and Grokipedia, found Musk’s knowledge base to be more balanced when explaining the Sad Puppies campaign, which was organized by Correia to combat identity politics at the Hugo Awards and was maligned as a far-right campaign.
Musk’s plans for Grokipedia are to collect all human knowledge to date and store it on durable media such as stable oxide. Then it wants to store copies on the Moon and Mars. Musk’s ambitions to take humanity off-world have been no secret, and beginning his interplanetary colonization by moving his Digital Library of Alexandria into space could definitively prevent humanity from losing everything it has accumulated so far.
