Grokipedia: Elon Musk's xAI to Launch Wikipedia Competitor Focused on Truth Verification

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced on Sunday that an early beta version of Grokipedia, a competitor to Wikipedia built by xAI, will be launching within two weeks.

Musk shared this information while retweeting a post from X user @amXFreeze who described Grokipedia as "the world's largest and most accurate knowledge source, for humans and AI, with no limits on use."

According to the tweet, "Grok is using massive amounts of inference compute to look at sources like Wikipedia page and asking: What's true, partially true, false, or missing?"

Musk confirmed, "Version 0.1 early beta of Grokipedia will be published in 2 weeks."

The platform will analyze existing sources such as Wikipedia, identifying falsehoods, correcting partial truths, and supplementing missing context in its entries.

The original tweet further claimed, "The reason why it will be the true knowledge source is because it's built solely for the truth and to navigate to the truth... free from bias or hidden agendas. Elon never does anything by half measures, he dives straight to the full extent." Musk responded to this with "Exactly."

Musk has frequently criticized Wikipedia's funding model and editorial practices. His proposal to utilize AI to "navigate to the truth" has generated diverse reactions on X, with supporters welcoming a new competitor while critics warn that Grok's training data might introduce its own biases.

In previous announcements, Musk has described Grokipedia as a "massive improvement over Wikipedia" and a significant step toward xAI's broader mission of understanding the universe.

On October 2, Elon Musk became the first person in history to achieve a net worth of $500 billion, with Oracle's Larry Ellison following at a considerably lower second place.

Musk's AI venture xAI was valued at $75 billion as of July. Reports indicated xAI was targeting a $200 billion valuation after a fundraising round, although Musk denied the company was seeking capital at that time.