By Jennifer Asencio
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On October 27, 2025, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, launched Grokipedia. The site is intended to be an online crowd-sourced encyclopedia and knowledge base. It is also a direct competitor to Wikipedia, which has angered both Wiki and anti-Musk media sites like Wired.
Grokipedia works through automated fact-checking, gathering information from all over the Internet and assembling referenced articles based on what it has collected. It cannot be directly edited by users, but it can be questioned and corrections submitted for consideration. This is in direct contrast with Wikipedia, which can be directly edited by users.
Musk Versus Opposition Media
Musk and others, including Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, have accused the Wikipedia model of being abused by institutions to promote certain points of view and demonize others. Musk has said that Grokipedia is specifically designed to “purge out” the same kind of “propaganda.”
Both Wikipedia and Wired replied very quickly by trying to discredit Grokipedia. Ironically, Wikipedia criticized Grokipedia’s use of Wiki’s own archives as the basis for some of its articles. Both Wiki and Wired also accused Grokipedia of being “right-leaning” and only promoting Musk’s point of view. Wired shared a few articles they took exception to, such as one on transgender issues, including the term “transgenderism,” and one on slavery that they say criticizes the 1619 Project. Wiki criticized Grokipedia for not including Musk’s so-called “Nazi salute” in his biography.
Grokipedia Supporters
Despite Wikipedia and Wired trying to narrate public opinion, Grokipedia was welcomed by a lot of media personalities. Larry Sanger, who left Wikipedia because he felt it to be ideologically captured, was particularly excited about it, posting questions to Musk about how Grokipedia scrapes the Internet for its data. Mark Kern, co-developer of World of Warcraft, was mystified, making several posts claiming that Grokipedia was going to change everything. Author Larry Correia, who, like Sanger, compared his entries in both Wiki and Grokipedia, found that Musk’s knowledge base was more balanced in explaining the Sad Puppies campaign, which was organized by Correia to combat identity politics at the Hugo Awards and was maligned as a far-right campaign.
Musk’s plans for Grokipedia are to collate all human knowledge to date and store it on durable media such as stable oxide. He then wants to store copies on the Moon and on Mars. Musk’s ambitions to take humanity off-world have been no secret, and starting his interplanetary colonization by moving his digital Library of Alexandria to space could definitely prevent humanity from losing everything it has accumulated so far.
