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Musk Unveils Plan to Archive Grokipedia in Space After Encyclopedia Goes Live

The site lists over 885,000 entries with small CC BY-SA credit to Wikipedia.

Overview

  • Grokipedia briefly went live on Monday, crashed, then returned with its homepage counter showing more than 885,000 articles.
  • Elon Musk announced copies would be etched onto a stable oxide medium for deployment in Earth orbit, on the Moon, and on Mars.
  • Many entries closely resemble Wikipedia content, carry a small CC BY-SA 4.0 attribution notice, and lack inline citations.
  • Musk said the release had been delayed to remove propaganda, a characterization Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales called inaccurate.
  • xAI describes Grokipedia as an open-source, AI-driven knowledge base powered by its Grok model to aggregate and summarize information.