By Jennifer Asencio | Published
On October 27, 2025, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI launched Grokipedia. The site is intended to be an online encyclopedia and knowledge base. It is also a direct competitor to Wikipedia, which has drawn the ire of Wiki and anti-Musk media sites like Wired.
Grokipedia works through automated fact-checking, collecting information from all over the internet and bringing together articles referenced based on what it has collected. It cannot be directly edited by users, but it can be questioned and corrections submitted for review. This is in direct contrast to Wikipedia, which can be directly edited by users.
Musk against opposition media
Musk and others, including Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, have accused the Wikipedia model of being abused by institutions to promote certain viewpoints and demonize others. Musk said Grokipedia was specifically designed to “purge” the same type of “propaganda.”
Wikipedia and Wired responded very quickly trying to discredit Grokipedia. Ironically, Wikipedia has criticized Grokipedia’s use of Wiki’s own archives as the basis for some of its articles. Wiki and Wired also accused Grokipedia of being “right-wing” and only promoting Musk’s point of view. Wired shared a few articles they objected 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 its biography.
Supporters of Grokipedia
Despite Wikipedia and Wired trying to tell the public opinion, Grokipedia has been praised by many media figures. Larry Sanger, who left Wikipedia because he felt it was being ideologically captured, was particularly excited about the initiative, asking Musk about how Grokipedia scrapes the Internet for its data. Mark Kern, co-developer of World of Warcraft, was perplexed, publishing several articles claiming that Grokipedia would change everything. Author Larry Correia, who like Sanger compared his Wiki and Grokipedia entries, found that Musk’s knowledge base was more balanced in explaining the Sad Puppies campaign, organized by Correia to combat identity politics at the Hugo Awards and decried as a far-right campaign.
Musk’s plans for Grokipedia are to bring together all human knowledge to date and store it in a durable medium such as stable oxide. He then wants to store copies on the Moon and Mars. Musk’s ambitions to take humanity off the planet are no secret, and beginning his interplanetary colonization by moving his digital library from Alexandria into space could certainly prevent humanity from losing everything it has accumulated so far.
