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The billionaire launched his A.I.-powered version, Grokipedia, on Monday.
Oct. 27, 2025Updated 9:12 p.m. ET
Elon Musk on Monday unveiled his own version of Wikipedia, the crowdsourced online encyclopedia, with entries edited by xAI, his artificial intelligence company.
The new project, Grokipedia, would “purge out the propaganda” flooding Wikipedia, Mr. Musk claimed in a post on his social media site, X.
Grokipedia, which briefly crashed after its launch Monday afternoon, tallied more than 800,000 A.I.-generated encyclopedia entries, compared with Wikipedia’s nearly eight million human-written ones. Visitors to the website — grokipedia.com — were greeted with a bare-bones logo and a search bar that allowed them to query topics.
An entry on Mr. Musk said his public persona “blends innovative visionary with irreverent provocateur” and featured details of his diet, noting his consumption of “occasional indulgences like morning donuts and multiple Diet Cokes daily.” Grokipedia also has entries on OpenAI, a competitor of xAI, and political figures like President Trump and the New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
The new site adds to Mr. Musk’s online media ecosystem, which coheres with his personal political views. On X, Mr. Musk has reinstated right-wing creators and allowed them to reach enormous audiences, and he has used X as a bully pulpit to drive government funding cuts. He has also tweaked xAI’s chatbot, Grok, to lean further to the right.
“The impulse to control knowledge is as old as knowledge itself,” said Ryan McGrady, a senior research fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who studies encyclopedias and social media platforms. “Controlling what gets written is a way to gain or keep power.”
