Overview
- Grokipedia v0.1 is live with roughly 885,000 English-only entries generated and “verified” by xAI’s Grok, with users limited to submitting correction suggestions rather than editing pages.
- Early articles differ sharply from Wikipedia on topics such as gender, George Floyd, race and intelligence, Black Lives Matter, and Tucker Carlson, drawing criticism for conservative-leaning framing.
- Reporters identified contentious sourcing, including Kremlin-linked materials in Ukraine-related pages, raising concerns over accuracy, neutrality and source quality.
- xAI markets the site as free and open-source, and Elon Musk promises a forthcoming version 1.0 he says will be “10 times better,” with continuous updates tied to improvements in Grok.
- The Wikimedia Foundation says it is assessing how Grokipedia operates and emphasizes Wikipedia’s human-written, transparently governed model, while Grokipedia’s visibility in major search indexes remains limited.