Elon Musk has unveiled his newest venture, Grokipedia, an AI-driven encyclopedia developed by his company xAI. Musk claims this platform will surpass Wikipedia “by several orders of magnitude” in breadth, depth, and factual precision. Built on the Grok large language model, Grokipedia aims to become the world’s most comprehensive and unbiased digital knowledge source.

According to Musk, the current version—Grokipedia 0.1—already contains hundreds of thousands of entries generated through advanced AI systems. He asserts that the full-scale version 1.0 will outshine Wikipedia in both scale and reliability. The project’s goal is to minimize human-editor bias and automate the verification process through real-time AI fact-checking. Musk argues that existing online encyclopedias often reflect ideological preferences, while Grokipedia will deliver a “neutral, data-backed view” of global knowledge.

Industry observers note that Grokipedia draws some foundational data from Wikipedia’s open-source content but intends to rebuild and expand it using xAI’s generative capabilities. Critics, however, have raised questions about originality, citing that early samples appear close to Wikipedia’s text. Supporters counter that the Creative Commons license allows adaptation as long as credit and transformation are maintained.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has expressed skepticism, warning that AI-based encyclopedias risk introducing subtle factual inaccuracies without the collective human oversight that Wikipedia relies on. Still, Musk insists Grokipedia’s algorithms will self-correct errors and continuously improve as users engage with the platform.

Despite the debate, Grokipedia represents a major step toward reimagining how information is curated and consumed in the AI era. Whether it can achieve Musk’s ambitious promise of eclipsing Wikipedia remains to be seen, but it undeniably signals a new chapter in the evolution of global digital knowledge.