Elon Musk has long complained about Wikipedia, the crowd-sourced encyclopedia that’s considered a crown jewel of the internet. And now it seems like the billionaire is finally going to launch a competitor.
“We are building Grokipedia @xAI,” Musk tweeted Tuesday. “Will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia. Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe.”
The Tesla CEO has previously insisted that Wikipedia is too “woke” and wants to offer an alternative encyclopedia with more right-wing “facts” about the world. Musk has referred to Wikipedia as “Wokipedia” at least half a dozen times in recent years.
Musk, who spent over $270 million to get President Donald Trump elected, launched his artificial intelligence company xAI in 2023 and touts his AI chatbot Grok as a superior product. But Grok often presents facts about the world that Musk doesn’t agree with. And his attempts to tinker with Grok to become more right-wing have seen mixed success.
Two high-profile incidents with Grok were an embarrassment for Musk, including the time Grok randomly responded to queries with unrelated conspiracy theories about white farmers being murdered in South Africa. A couple of months later, Grok went full Nazi, praising Hitler and endorsing the idea of rounding up Jews in concentration camps.
Musk never took blame for making Grok so buggy, but both incidents came after the CEO complained on X that his AI chatbot wasn’t responding to factual questions the way that he wanted. And it seems likely that Grokipedia will almost certainly meet similar limitations.
Musk and xAI haven’t released any information about how Grokipedia will operate, including whether it will be 100% AI-generated content. It’s also unclear whether Grokipedia will have dedicated URLs for various topics that anyone can visit or if it will be some kind of modified version of Grok that spits out answers to various questions.
“Join @xAI and help build Grokipedia, an open source knowledge repository that is vastly better than Wikipedia! This will be available to the public with no limits on use,” Musk tweeted.
Join @xAI and help build Grokipedia, an open source knowledge repository that is vastly better than Wikipedia! This will be available to the public with no limits on use. https://t.co/3CnfrvNIpI — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 30, 2025
If the user interface is just a chatbot like Grok, it’s unclear how that would be different from the Grok that now exists. xAI didn’t respond to questions on Tuesday about how Grokipedia would work, nor when it would launch.
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