By Al Jazeera
Publication Date: 2025-11-16 13:10:00
Last month, tech billionaire Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, an AI-powered platform, to compete with online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
“Grokipedia will exceed Wikipedia by several orders of magnitude in scope, depth and accuracy,” Musk wrote on X the day after his site went live on October 27.
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In the age of generative artificial intelligence and AI-powered search engines, Wikipedia remains a human-made information repository.
Grokipedia will surpass Wikipedia in breadth, depth and accuracy by several orders of magnitude https://t.co/Nt4M6vqEZu
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2025
Still, PolitiFact found that Grokipedia’s articles were often copied almost entirely from Wikipedia. And when entries differ, Grokipedia’s information quality and sourcing are problematic and error-prone, making it a less reliable research tool.
Musk said on an Oct. 31 episode of the tech and business podcast “All-In” that his team…
