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American business magnate Elon Musk launched on Monday Grokipedia, an AI-driven online encyclopedia that he says will counter what he calls the “woke” bias of Wikipedia.

The tech billionaire announced the platform this month on his US social media company X, claiming an AI-created knowledge hub would be “super important for civilization” and essential for “understanding the Universe.”

Musk said he began developing the site last month after a recommendation from his ally David Sacks—a tech investor and the Trump administration’s AI and crypto czar—who had pushed for a conservative alternative to the nonprofit encyclopedia.

Unlike Wikipedia’s volunteer-led editorial system, Grokipedia’s entries are reviewed by Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok, with visitors limited to suggesting corrections.

Despite Musk’s pledge that Grok will stop relying on Wikipedia pages “by the end of the year,” many articles currently include a disclaimer saying content is “adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.”

'Even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist'

Early comparisons show notable omissions.

For example, Grokipedia’s page on President Donald Trump leaves out controversies highlighted on Wikipedia, while Musk’s own entry lacks mention of a hand gesture at a January rally that “many historians and politicians viewed as a Nazi salute.”

The Wikimedia Foundation said it is reviewing the new platform. “Wikipedia’s knowledge is—and always will be—human,” it said Monday, stressing that “AI companies rely on” its open, collaborative model. “Even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist.”

With 885,000 articles in its version 0.1 release, Grokipedia enters a landscape where Wikipedia—hosting 7.1 million English entries and ranking among the world’s most visited sites—has long embodied a free, nonprofit vision of the web.