Elon Musk said that Grokipedia is ‘vastly better than Wikipedia.’
Tech billionaire Elon Musk announced on Oct. 28 the launch of Grokipedia, an open-source, AI-powered encyclopedia that he said would serve as an alternative to Wikipedia.
Musk announced in a social media post that version 0.1 of Grokipedia had gone live, touting it as a better alternative to Wikipedia, the world’s largest online encyclopedia.
“Version 1.0 will be 10X better, but even at 0.1 it’s better than Wikipedia imo [in my opinion],” Musk wrote on X, the social media platform he owns.
In another post, the Tesla CEO referred to Grokipedia as “an open-source knowledge repository,” meaning that the site is fully accessible to the public “with no limits on use.”
Join @xAI and help build Grokipedia, an open source knowledge repository that is vastly better than Wikipedia!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 30, 2025
This will be available to the public with no limits on use. https://t.co/3CnfrvNIpI
Musk said that Grokipedia is “vastly better than Wikipedia” and called on users to participate in the site’s development.
The launch of the site initially was scheduled for an earlier date, but was postponed, with Musk stating on Oct. 21 that more work was needed “to purge out the propaganda,” without elaborating.
Wikipedia features content written and edited by volunteers around the world. Meanwhile, Grokipedia uses AI to generate content and allows users to offer feedback.
Grokipedia currently hosts about 885,279 articles, according to its website, though it does not specify the languages available. Wikipedia, on the other hand, has more than 7 million articles in English and millions of others in various languages, based on its website.
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, said on Oct. 28 that it is still reviewing how Grokipedia functions.
“This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist,” the nonprofit said in a statement.
In August, House Republicans opened an inquiry into whether the Wikimedia Foundation was doing enough to stop coordinated efforts to manipulate Wikipedia entries on important and sensitive topics to influence public opinion in the United States.
In an Aug. 27 letter to Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight Committe, and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), chairwoman of the panel’s Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation, requested records on volunteer editors found to have violated site rules and documentation of the foundation’s policies for ensuring neutrality.
The lawmakers said they are examining whether hostile foreign actors, taxpayer-funded academic institutions, or other organized groups are behind manipulation campaigns.
