Elon Musk Launches Grokipedia, a Wikipedia Competitor

Elon Musk seems to have launched Grokipedia, a substitute for Wikipedia, on Monday.

This comes shortly after the billionaire mentioned on X final month that his group at xAI was constructing one thing that may be a “large enchancment over Wikipedia.”

“Frankly, it’s a essential step in the direction of the xAI purpose of understanding the Universe,” he mentioned within the September X put up.

Grokipedia.com went stay on Monday afternoon, however some customers mentioned they skilled errors with the positioning, in line with the Washington Put up.

Enterprise Insider was in a position to entry Grokipedia.com shortly earlier than 7:30 p.m. ET and look at an entry for Musk.

The web page includes a search bar on a darkish background, and a font model paying homage to Wikipedia and ChatGPT.

The web site’s touchdown web page says Grokipedia is in “model v0.1” and has logged 885,279 articles.

For comparability, Wikipedia mentioned on its web site that as of Tuesday, it had 7,081,705 articles within the English Wikipedia.

Representatives for Musk, X, xAI, and Wikipedia didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

The mission marks Musk’s newest try to problem mainstream platforms he deems politically biased. As soon as an admirer of Wikipedia, Musk has accused it of harboring liberal viewpoints over the previous few years and urged followers in January to “defund Wikipedia till steadiness is restored.”

In 2019, he criticized his personal Wikipedia web page on X, which was then Twitter, saying it was a “warfare zone with a zillion edits.”

“Simply checked out my wiki for 1st time in years. It is insane!” Musk wrote in a December 2019 put up. “Btw, can somebody please delete ‘investor’. I do principally zero investing.”

In December 2022, he posted on X that Wikipedia had a “non-trivial left-wing bias.”

Musk and Wikipedia’s cofounder, Jimmy Wales, even have a long-running on-line feud.

In Could 2023, Wales criticized Musk for proscribing some content material on Twitter in Turkey earlier than the nation’s presidential election.

And in November 2023, after Musk rebranded Twitter to X, Wales mentioned X was overrun with “trolls and lunatics.”

Responding to Wales’ remark saying Wikipedia was not on the market, Musk wrote in October 2023 that he would give the platform $1 billion if it modified its title to “Dickipedia.”

Wales advised the Washington Put up in an interview final week that he did not have excessive expectations for Grokipedia as a result of AI language fashions aren’t subtle sufficient and “there can be a variety of errors.”

At press time, Grokipedia’s entry on Musk says that the previous presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, took up a outstanding function in DOGE after Musk’s departure. That’s incorrect. Ramaswamy left the group in January, months earlier than Musk stepped down in Could.

Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Musk’s xAI, has drawn criticism previously for a collection of high-profile errors. In a single occasion, the bot promoted a baseless conspiracy concept about “white genocide” in South Africa after being requested unrelated questions. Musk and X have addressed these errors and promised fixes.

In a June X put up, Musk mentioned he would use Grok to “rewrite the complete corpus of human data, including lacking data and deleting errors.”