Elon Musk, head of artificial intelligence company xAI, has announced the launch of a new open-source digital encyclopedia named Grokipedia, positioning it as a superior alternative to Wikipedia.
Musk, a longtime critic of Wikipedia, has repeatedly accused the platform of being “left-wing biased.” According to him, Grokipedia—named after xAI’s chatbot Grok—will be a more advanced, open, and unrestricted knowledge repository.
In a post on X, Musk urged people to join the effort:
“Join xAI and help build Grokipedia. It will be a far better open-source knowledge base than Wikipedia, accessible to all without restrictions.”
This is not Musk’s first confrontation with Wikipedia. In 2023, he offered $1 billion to acquire the platform, an offer that was rejected. Later, he slammed Wikipedia as “broken” after the site hosted a page titled “Donald Trump and Fascism”, which sparked heated academic and political debates.
Meanwhile, Wikipedia itself has come under renewed criticism this week after co-founder Larry Sanger once again labeled it a “propaganda tool.” Speaking on Tucker Carlson’s podcast, Sanger alleged that the site actively censors conservative and libertarian voices through a network of administrators.
Sanger, who left Wikipedia in 2002, claimed that “hundreds of administrators continuously block people whose views differ from theirs,” though he admitted uncertainty about whether there is a “puppet master” behind it. He also pointed to former Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith, who once built the tool WikiScanner, revealing that CIA-linked computers had been used to edit Wikipedia entries in the early 2000s.
With Musk’s Grokipedia announcement, the long-running debate over bias and control in digital knowledge platforms has once again entered the spotlight.
