Elon Musk launches Grokipedia: the encyclopedia without human editors, already ‘better than Wikipedia’
Following an initial announcement earlier this month, Elon Musk has officially unveiled Grokipedia, an encyclopedia powered by artificial intelligence developed by his company xAI.
Launched in version 0.1, the platform relies on the Grok model, which can automatically generate, verify, and update hundreds of thousands of factual articles.
Grokipedia: An AI-Managed Alternative to Wikipedia
Positioned as a direct competitor to Wikipedia, Grokipedia takes a radically different approach: no human editors are involved. All content is written and updated by xAI’s AI, ensuring consistency and speed.
Musk shared the news on X, stating that “Grokipedia is already better than Wikipedia, even in version 0.1” — adding that version 1.0 would be ten times better.
https://t.co/op5s4ZiSwh version 0.1 is now live.
Version 1.0 will be 10X better, but even at 0.1 it’s better than Wikipedia imo.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2025
The launch features approximately 885,000 articles, generated through xAI’s powerful computing infrastructure.
Design and Functionality
The interface of Grokipedia is intentionally minimalist: a clean homepage, a central search engine, and concise summaries accompanied by cited sources and automatic updates.
Unlike Wikipedia, users cannot directly modify pages. However, they can submit correction requests through Grok, xAI’s conversational assistant, which analyzes them before approval.
The project is entirely open-source, meaning any developer can freely reuse or adapt the platform’s code.
https://t.co/op5s4ZikGJ is fully open source, so anyone can use it for anything at no cost
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2025
Content, Licenses, and Initial Critiques
A large portion of the initial content comes from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license. However, the lack of online citations and the near-identical wording between certain articles have raised questions about transparency. For instance, the Grokipedia pages dedicated to the PlayStation 5 (here and there) are almost word-for-word identical to those on Wikipedia.
“Even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist,” explains Lauren Dickinson, spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation, in a statement to The Verge.
Musk justifies the launch delay by the necessity to “purge propaganda” and ensure balanced coverage of topics. However, some articles — particularly on climate change — adopt a more skeptical tone than Wikipedia, mentioning “criticisms of scientific consensus” and “media exaggerations”.
Objective: Automated Knowledge
Grokipedia aligns with xAI’s stated mission: to make knowledge universal, fast, and free from ideological bias. It remains to be seen if this AI-driven encyclopedia can overcome the challenges of reliability, transparency, and neutrality that still plague major language models.
With 885,000 articles in this initial version (compared to 7 million on Wikipedia), Grokipedia is still far from the giant it aims to replace. However, Musk promises rapid evolution — with version 1.0 poised to redefine how information is created and updated online.
Availability
Grokipedia is now accessible at grokipedia.com. Users can log in with their X account to view or suggest corrections.
No Android or iOS app is available yet.
