Grokipedia is developed by xAI, the same company that introduced us to the Grok AI chatbot on X. (Express Photo)
Elon Musk’s xAI, the company behind Grok, has launched Grokipedia, an AI-powered online encyclopedia designed to take on what Musk calls a “woke” Wikipedia. The billionaire says the platform will be “a massive improvement over Wikipedia” and reflects xAI’s broader goal of helping humanity better understand the universe.
Last month, Musk had announced that he was working on a Wikipedia alternative after suggestions from David Sacks, the billionaire’s friend who also happens to be Trump’s AI and crypto czar. On his social media platform X, Musk had previously said that an AI-generated encyclopedia is “super important for civilisation” because the lack of human authors means it will have no bias towards any political ideology or thinking.
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Grokipedia is currently sourcing some information from Wikipedia. (Express Photo)
When you search for a topic on Grokipedia, it will show you a list of articles that are available on the website. xAI says all of the available articles on the website are “Fact-checked by Grok” and have a timestamp about when the AI last updated it.
Unlike Wikipedia, users who visit Grokipedia won’t be able to edit any of the posts on the website, but they can suggest edits or flag false information using a pop-up form. Also, some content on the platform has a disclaimer saying “The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.”
As of now, Grokipedia seems to be sourcing content directly from its rival – Wikipedia, but Elon Musk says he wants to stop doing that before the end of the year. At the time of writing, Grokipedia has 8,85,279 articles, but this number is expected to rapidly go up in the coming days.
Musk has previously stated that the AI is open source, meaning everyone will be able to use it for free. Grokipedia can currently be accessed only from a web browser, and there is no information on whether xAI plans to launch a dedicated app for Android and iOS users.
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