Elon Musk’s newly launched Grokipedia seems to have one clear favorite: Elon Musk himself. The billionaire’s AI-written encyclopedia is nearly 11,000 words long, cites more than 300 sources, and includes sections like “Criticisms of Regulation and Woke Culture” and “Advocacy for Multiplanetary Life and Population Growth.”
In contrast, Elon Musk’s Wikipedia page is a relatively modest 8,000 words.
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Elon Musk’s ambitious project, which was quietly unveiled on Monday, is part of Musk’s broader effort to use artificial intelligence — in this case, his ChatGPT-like Grok system — to build what he’s promoting as the “search for truth,” a less biased alternative to mainstream tech platforms.
How is Grokipedia different from Wikipedia?
At first glance, Grokipedia looks deceptively familiar: a minimalistic white home page with the headline “Grokipedia v0.1” and a simple search bar prompting users to enter questions.
Yet beneath the surface, the site draws on the large language model that powers Musk’s Groka chatbot on X (formerly Twitter), which means it could — at least in theory — download and update records with real-time contributions from X’s hundreds of millions of users.
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While Wikipedia boasts more than 8 million English-language entries, Grokipedia’s homepage claimed to contain approximately 885,000 articles—a fraction of the size, but clearly more expansive in tone.
What kind of content does it contain?
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia entry is almost literary in scope, covering everything from his business ventures to his ideological stances. Suggested related searches include “Elon Musk (disambiguation)” and even “Elon Musk filmography”.
In contrast, a search for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman yielded a single suggestion that raised eyebrows: “Remove Sam Altman from OpenAI.”
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The entry references Sam Altman’s brief ouster by OpenAI’s board in 2023 before his swift reinstatement—a reminder that Grokipedia’s tone may reflect the unfiltered worldview of Elon Musk.
Why did Elon Musk start Grokipedia?
Grokipedia’s debut arrived a week later than expected, following Musk’s announcement on October 20 that he was delaying its release to “clean up the propaganda.” Since then, Musk has offered no public comment on its live status — and the launch happened without fanfare, press statements, or formal explanation.
The project represents Musk’s latest attempt to position his xAI company as an ideological counterweight to what he calls the “mainstream information regime.” Through Grok, and now Grokipedia, he hopes to combine the conversational agility of generative AI with his own mission to create “truth-oriented AI that understands the universe.”
Is Grokipedia Musk the new media frontier?
With posts already longer, louder and arguably more opinionated than their Wikipedia counterparts, Grokipedia hints at Musk’s broader ambition to reshape the way information is managed online.
In a section on Musk’s work at the U.S. DOGE Service included an error regarding Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who left the group before it became part of the Trump administration in January: “The post-departure initiative emphasized sustained, less aggressive effectiveness, with Ramaswamy taking on a more prominent role.”
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Unlike Wikipedia’s “Tributes” section, Musk’s Grokipedia page ended with a section titled “Acknowledgment and Long-Term Vision” that explained his beliefs: “His long-term vision prioritizes the protection of human consciousness from existential threats, emphasizing the creation of a self-sustaining multiplanetary civilization as an anti-Earth catastrophe.”
Whether users will embrace it as a genuine alternative – or reject it as digital hagiography – remains to be seen.
For now, it seems safe to say: if Wikipedia is a public archive, Grokipedia may be Elon Musk’s personal epic.
