Entries in Grokipedia are created and edited by the Grok language model, though the exact process behind its content generation is not known.[2] Many articles are derived from Wikipedia, with some copied nearly verbatim at launch. Articles cannot be directly edited, though logged-in visitors to the encyclopedia can suggest edits via a pop-up form for reporting wrong information. As of October 28, 2025, the site states that it has over 800,000 articles.
xAI founder Elon Musk positioned Grokipedia as an alternative to Wikipedia that would "purge out the propaganda" in the latter. Initial reception of Grokipedia focused on its accuracy and biases due to hallucinations and potential algorithmic bias, with several sources describing articles as promoting right-wing perspectives, conspiracy theories, and Elon Musk's personal views.
Wikipedia is a free online multilingualencyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers through open collaboration.[3] Wikipedia has been criticized for its alleged political biases since its inception.[4] In 2018, Haaretz noted "Wikipedia has succeeded in being accused of being both too liberal and too conservative, and has critics from across the spectrum".[5] In a 2017 report from Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Wikipedia was identified as a center-right website in the study's "candidate valence" scale, along with RealClearPolitics and National Review.[6] In 2022, Vice News reported, "Researchers have found that Wikipedia has a slight Democratic bias on issues of US politics because many of Wikipedia's editors are international, and the average country has views that are to the left of the Democratic party on issues such as healthcare, climate change, corporate power, capitalism, etc."[7]
Over the years, other online encyclopedia projects have been launched with the stated goal of correcting for Wikipedia's perceived bias in one direction or another. These have included Conservapedia, launched in 2006 to counter perceived liberal bias,[8] and Ruwiki, forked in 2023 with content modifications widely described as favoring the Russian government.[9][10][11]xAI is an American AI company founded by Elon Musk in 2023.[12] Its flagship product is the family of large language models called Grok.[13]
In 2021, Musk expressed affection for Wikipedia on its 20th anniversary.[14] In 2022, Musk argued that Wikipedia was "losing its objectivity".[14] In 2023, he said he would donate a billion dollars to the project if it was renamed "Dickipedia".[14]
In December 2024, Musk called for a boycott of donations to Wikipedia over its perceived left-wing bias, calling it "Woke pedia".[15] In January 2025, Musk made a series of statements on X denouncing Wikipedia for its description of the incident where he made a controversial gesture at president Donald Trump's second inauguration.[15] Musk has since positioned Grokipedia as an alternative to Wikipedia that would "purge out the propaganda" in the latter.[16]
Idea and announcement
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 gain more complete knowledge of the world. Sacks suggested that its knowledge base be published as an artifact called "Grokipedia", saying "Wikipedia is so biased, it's a constant war."[14]
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.[17][18] 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.[19]Gizmodo compared the plan to the 2006 Conservapedia project.[20]
Launch
On October 6, 2025, Musk announced that the early version of Grokipedia was scheduled for release later that month.[21][22] The project was postponed briefly in October to address content quality issues.[16] It launched on October 27, 2025, with over 800,000 articles.[16] Some articles are nearly identical to their Wikipedia entries, but the format of Grokipedia citations is different.[4][23][24][25] On the day of launch, Musk stated on X that "Grokipedia.com is fully open source, so anyone can use it for anything at no cost". Articles attributed to Wikipedia carry a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, but the license of other articles is ambiguous, and no publicly accessible source code repository of the backend has been released as of October 29, 2025.[26]
Articles related to topics that Musk has been outspoken on have been noted to align with Musk's personal views on the topics, including gender transition, Tesla, Neuralink, and former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal.[27][32][24]PRWeek speculated on how Grokipedia could affect PR and marketing.[33]
Indian popular historian, Hindutva revisionist, and economist Sanjeev Sanyal found several examples of Indian topics where he preferred Grokipedia's content to that of Wikipedia, as the Grokipedia articles were more favorable to the perpetrators of anti-minority violence in India.[34]Creationist website Science & Culture Today praised Grokipedia for presenting intelligent design as a legitimate scientific theory.[35][non-primary source needed] The Agence France-Presse described several right-wing figures as welcoming the site. Far-right Russian philosopher Aleksander Dugin praised the Grokipedia article on him, saying it was better than his article on Wikipedia.[36]
Time magazine wrote that the Grokipedia article on Musk sometimes "describes him in rapturous terms while downplaying, or even omitting, several of his controversies". The magazine added that "Grokipedia includes more detailed descriptions of Musk's views, including the idea of a 'woke mind virus,' which Musk claimed 'killed' his estranged transgender daughter, who is alive".[37]The Verge describes Grokipedia articles on Musk and his ventures seem like "airbrush[ed]" versions of their Wikipedia counterparts.[38] Matteo Wong in the The Atlantic noted how in the Grokipedia article on Adolf Hitler, his "rapid economic achievements" are prioritized over events like the Holocaust, and that Grokipedia frames the white genocide conspiracy theory as an event that is occurring.[39]Futurism reported that the Grokipedia article on the Tesla Cybertruck included language promoting the Cybertruck and criticizing media coverage of it and Tesla.[40] Anaïs Nony, a researcher in digital technologies at the University of Johannesburg, argued that Grokipedia seeks to "discredit scientific and collaborative work".[41]
Wired reported that "The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people."[27]LGBTQ Nation also highlighted how Grokipedia has an article on "HIV/AIDS skepticism" which claims there is legitimate scientific critique that HIV does not cause AIDS.[42]The Verge highlighted other instances of articles that legitimize ideas and conspiracy theories that go against scientific consensus, pointing to topics such as vaccines and autism, COVID-19, race and intelligence, and climate change.[38]The Business Standard noted reviewers found it framed "contested social and political issues through a right-leaning perspective, echoing Musk's personal views", with pages accused of whitewashing extremism or validating debunked conspiracy theories such as Pizzagate and the "Great Replacement".[43]Texas-based news site Chron observed that Grokipedia articles often supported their claims by citing "Texas Republican bloggers and advocacy groups", and that Grokipedia's coverage of Texas history tended to minimize the role of slavery.[44]
Meduza compared Grokipedia's coverage to that of the Kremlin-aligned Ruwiki, finding that Grokipedia's treatment of the Russo-Ukrainian war was less overtly propagandistic than Ruwiki's, though it did give more favorable treatment to "Russian propaganda talking points" than Wikipedia did. On the topic of Vladimir Putin, Grokipedia's coverage was "less fawning" than Ruwiki's, though still omitting noteworthy negative information about him. Meduza noted that Grokipedia also omits mention of scandals surrounding Donald Trump, such as his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.[11]
Response from the Wikipedia community
A spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation commented that "Wikipedia's knowledge is – and always will be – human.[...] This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist."[23][30] Sociologist and physicist Taha Yasseri argued in The Conversation that the encyclopedia may end up displaying biases just like Wikipedia (though acknowledging that Wikipedia's "infrastructure is designed to make that bias visible and correctable"), since large language models like Grok's reflect the political and other biases of their datasets.[4]
Larry Sanger, co-founder and noted critic of Wikipedia, responded to the launch of Grokipedia saying "The jury's still out as to whether it's actually better than Wikipedia. But at this point I would have to say 'maybe!'".[45] Sanger also noted that while the Grokipedia article on himself offered correct and interesting content not found in the corresponding Wikipedia article, it also demonstrated hallucination and contained errors.[46] Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales commented that the use of large language models would cause Grokipedia to contain "massive errors".[47]
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