Grokipedia: Elon Musk's xAI Launches Open-source Encyclopedia, Challenging Wikipedia's Left-wing Bias

Elon Musk’s xAI has launched Grokipedia, a fully open-source, AI-powered encyclopedia built on the Grok chatbot, aiming to provide a "truth-seeking" alternative to Wikipedia. The platform went live on Monday, with version 0.1 currently containing over 900,000 articles, and Musk has declared it "better than Wikipedia" even in its initial form.

The launch was announced via a post on X, where Musk emphasized the platform’s open-source nature and its mission to deliver "the whole truth and nothing but the truth."

Grokipedia generates and updates articles automatically using xAI’s Grok AI model, eliminating the need for human volunteer editors. The platform features a modern interface with a search bar, article history, and a "last fact check" timestamp to ensure accuracy. Users can highlight text and submit corrections via an "It’s Wrong" feature, though full user editing is currently limited. The system synthesizes knowledge from diverse sources, prioritizing truth-seeking and Community Notes-style consensus-driven editing.

Musk said that Grokipedia is "fully open source, so anyone can use it for anything at no cost." He claimed the version 0.1 launch is already better than Wikipedia and promised that version 1.0 will be "10x better." He also shared a vision of preserving the knowledge base by etching it into stable oxide on the Moon and Mars.

The xAI owner has long criticized Wikipedia for what he perceives as ideological or "left-wing" bias, even referring to it as "Wokipedia" and "Dickipedia."

Wikipedia co-founder, Larry Sanger, praised Grokipedia. Sanger, along with Musk, has previously accused Wikipedia of being "hopelessly biased" by left-wing activists and "woke ideology." The Wikimedia Foundation denied any allegations of systemic bias.

Grokipedia was developed by xAI, Musk’s artificial intelligence company, as a direct challenge to Wikipedia’s editorial model. Musk positions the platform as a solution to what he sees as the slow pace and perceived bias of crowdsourced editing.

In September 2025, Musk spoke at the All-In podcast conference with White House AI and crypto czar David O. Sacks about how Grok consumed data from Wikipedia and other sources to build more complete knowledge of the world. Sacks suggested that this knowledge base be published as an artifact called "Grokipedia," saying "Wikipedia is so biased, it's a constant war."

Following the conversation with Sacks, Musk announced in September 2025 that xAI was building a new AI-generated online encyclopedia by the suggested name of Grokipedia. According to Musk's announcement, it would be an AI-powered knowledge base designed to rival Wikipedia by addressing its perceived biases, errors, and ideological slants.

On October 6, 2025, Musk announced that the early beta version of Grokipedia was scheduled for release later that month. The project was postponed briefly in October to address content quality issues.

The launch Monday was met with initial technical issues, including a server crash due to high demand.

Critics have raised concerns about the originality of content, and the platform’s reliance on AI for content generation and the potential for AI "hallucinations."

Others on social media praised Grokipedia for its unbiased and nuanced presentation with many posting examples comparing Wikipedia and Grokipedia entries.

"Grokipedia isn’t just 'updated Wikipedia,' it shows what was wrong, why it was wrong, and what got fixed. Highlight any line, flag it, add context, and Grok reconsiders in real time," Thomas Slabbers wrote. "Human judgment with AI could result in the best and most complete source of truth if we continue to design it right."

"Note the difference between Wikipedia's first paragraph on George Floyd compared to the first paragraph from Grokipedia," Dillon Loomis wrote on X. "The nuance and detail on Grokipedia is FAR superior to Wikipedia and is clearly not pushing any ideologies, unlike Wikipedia. Corrections like this are critical to our AI future. Thank you Elon and @xai"

Mario Nawfal wrote: "If you want to see the difference between actually providing information and just tossing around buzzwords, look no further than the race and intelligence entries on Grokipedia vs Wikipedia.

"Grokipedia lays out clear, sourced, statistically verifiable data about IQ score averages across racial groups. No moralizing. No spin. Just facts you can check.

"Wikipedia, on the other hand, responds with a predictable cocktail of buzzwords like “pseudoscience” and 'racism,' followed by the unsupported claim that differences in IQ are entirely environmental. It uses terms like 'scientific consensus' without naming a single study, scientist, or institution.

"And that's what it does on any politically sensitive topic, putting forth value statements rather than information anyone can actually make sense of. Where Grokipedia brings receipts, Wikipedia brings essays that look like they were written by someone who thinks 'non-biased' means 'whatever's the most popular thing today.'

"The difference, sadly, highlights a much bigger shift. Universities and institutions, once meant to seek truth, now censor uncomfortable facts in favor of politically correct narratives. Ironically, in the name of 'progress,' some of what used to be the world's leading institutions of knowledge have turned into feelings-first operations.

"What does Grokipedia represent? An attempt to get back to the days when facts meant just that, and universities were places of knowledge, not institutions of learning what not to say."

Authur MacWaters wrote: "Wikipedia: 'conspiracy theorists claim COVID-19 leaked from a lab'

"Grokipedia: 'experts are split, here are the sources for the house report on the lab leak and the scientific sentiment studies.'