Tech billionaire Elon Musk has announced plans to launch Grokipedia, an AI-based encyclopedia that will compete with and according to Musk be a “massive improvement” over Wikipedia. The project builds on his xAI chatbot Grok.
Musk announced the plans on X on Tuesday. Grokipedia will be built using his AI chatbot Grok, which was developed as an alternative to ChatGPT and trained on web data, including public tweets.
In a podcast earlier this month, Musk described how the technology will work.
— Grok is using heavy amounts of inference compute to look at, as an example, a Wikipedia page, what is true, partially true, or false, or missing in this page.
— Now rewrite the page to correct, remove the falsehoods, correct the half-truths, and add the missing context.
We are building Grokipedia @xAI.
Will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia.
Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe. https://t.co/xvSeWkpALy
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 30, 2025
Musk has long criticized Wikipedia for being extremely politically correct and urged people to stop donating to the encyclopedia.
Critics often accuse the site of having transformed into a political weapon with a strong left-liberal bias. Conservative and nationalist perspectives are deliberately portrayed as extreme and dangerous, while left-wing and liberal positions are presented as positive or objective facts.
Grokipedia is expected to attract an audience among Musk’s followers and others who agree that Wikipedia has transformed into a politically biased propaganda tool rather than a neutral reference source.
Wikipedia – a propaganda weapon?
In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger recently launched a harsh attack on what his creation has become.
— Wikipedia became a weapon of ideological theological war, used to destroy its enemies, Sanger stated in the interview published on X.
He described how the encyclopedia he founded in 2001 together with Jimmy Wales to bring together people with different perspectives has now become a propaganda tool.
— The left has its march through the institutions. And when Wikipedia appeared, it was one of the institutions that they marched through, Sanger explained.
Controlled by anonymous editors
He also criticized the fact that the most powerful editors are anonymous, that conservative sources are blacklisted and that intelligence services have been involved in editing content on Wikipedia.
— We don’t know who they are. They can libel people with impunity, because they’re anonymous, Sanger said about the anonymous editors.
Wikipedia has encountered internal conflicts among editors about how certain events should be presented. The site is the seventh most visited website in the world. When Grokipedia will be launched has not yet been announced.