Overview
- Elon Musk’s xAI launched Grokipedia in version 0.1, positioning it as a more truthful alternative to Wikipedia.
- At launch the site listed about 885,000 to 900,000 pages, far fewer than Wikipedia’s roughly 7 million English articles.
- Content is generated and labeled as fact‑checked by xAI’s Grok, and users cannot edit pages but can report errors.
- Reporters and The Verge observed many entries appear copied or adapted from Wikipedia, while Jimmy Wales warned LLM‑built pages will contain many errors.
- Wired reported early examples of disputed claims reflecting extreme‑right narratives, and the site experienced a brief post‑launch crash that was restored the same day.