Elon Musk introduced a copy of Wikipedia named Grokipedia

Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has launched a new online encyclopedia called Grokipedia. It went live on October 27, 2025. 

The site currently holds 800k+ entries according to early reporting — far fewer than the millions on the Wikimedia Foundation’s Wikipedia.

What is Grokipedia?

• It is an AI-powered encyclopedia developed by xAI and built around the chatbot Grok.
• Musk has said the project is meant to be “a massive improvement over Wikipedia” and a necessary step toward understanding the universe.
• The interface mimics Wikipedia’s style (search bar, article format) but uses a dark theme and AI-driven content.

How it compares with Wikipedia

• Wikipedia is a crowdsourced encyclopedia with volunteer editors, open edit history, and policy-driven governance.
• Grokipedia, by contrast, appears to rely mostly on AI-generated content (via Grok) and does not offer the same transparent volunteer-editor model.
• The article count on Grokipedia is still much lower than Wikipedia’s English-language edition (~7 million+ entries).

The copying concern

It’s not only AI-generated content: in several instances, Grokipedia pages contain complete or near-verbatim copies of Wikipedia pages. 

For example:

This raises questions about how much of Grokipedia is truly “new” content versus repackaged Wikipedia content.

Final thoughts

Grokipedia is an ambitious move by Elon Musk and xAI. On one hand, the idea of rethinking how encyclopedias work in an AI era is interesting. On the other hand, the heavy reuse of Wikipedia content and the lack of transparent community-editing raise serious questions: can this really offer a meaningful improvement? Or is it primarily a re-skin of old content, now AI-branded?

For now, Grokipedia is a version 0.1 release — still early. Time will tell whether it evolves into a credible platform or remains a bold experiment.