In a tweet that remained pinned to Elon Musk’s X profile as of Tuesday morning, the billionaire describes his motives for launching the new site: “The goal here is to create an open source, comprehensive collection of all knowledge.

Elon Musk launched Grokipedia on Monday. He previously said xAI was working on the Wikipedia competitor.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Monday launched an online encyclopedia, named Grokipedia, that he said was fueled by artificial intelligence and designed to be closer to his conservative political views than the leading alternative, Wikipedia.

Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia that the billionaire seeks to position as a rival to Wikipedia

Wikipedia's opening references "many people" being injured, before focusing on 174 police officer injuries and the later suicides of four officers. Grokipedia, on the other hand, first references harm with the death of rioter Ashli Babbitt.

An early version of Grokipedia is now live, with 885K+ articles 'fact-checked' by AI. But in some cases, the content appears to be copied from Wikipedia.

Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, an AI-powered encyclopedia built by xAI and fuelled by the Grok language model.

As Elon Musk tries to attract users to his online AI-powered encyclopedia, Wikipedia is leaning into the human qualities of its database.