The encyclopedia site 'Grokipedia,' which Elon Musk claims is superior to Wikipedia, is open to the public, and many articles are copied entirely from Wikipedia



Elon Musk's AI company xAI has launched the encyclopedia website Grokipedia , which is now publicly available. While Musk claims that Grokipedia is superior to Wikipedia, many of the articles published on the site are completely copied from Wikipedia.

Grokipedia

https://grokipedia.com/

On September 30, 2025, Musk revealed his plans to develop Grokipedia using xAI, mentioning the topic that 'Wikipedia is biased towards the left.' At this point, Musk said, 'Grokipedia will significantly surpass Wikipedia.'




Then, on October 28, 2025, version 0.1 of Grokipedia was released. Musk boasted that 'version 1.0 will be 10 times better, but even version 0.1 is better than Wikipedia.'




Let's actually try using Grokipedia. The top page has a simple configuration with a search bar in the center of the screen, and at the bottom of the screen it says that 885,279 articles are currently published. By the way, at the time of writing this article, the total number of articles on Wikipedia is 65,673,838, and the English version alone has 7,070,624 articles published.



At the time of writing, the site does not support Japanese, so I will search for English articles. Enter 'japan' in the search field and click 'Japan.'



An article explaining Japan was displayed. At the top of the page it said, 'Fact-checked by Grok 10 hours ago.'



There are numbers in the text indicating references, and when you hover your mouse cursor over a number, a link to the reference will appear.



Also, when you select text, three buttons will appear: 'Copy,' 'Ask Grok,' and 'This is wrong.'



Let's search for other things. This is

the Gifu Prefecture page .



At the bottom of the screen it says that it was created based on a Wikipedia article.



When I checked

the English Wikipedia article on Gifu Prefecture , I found that the content of the main text was exactly the same.



After doing some searching, I found that many articles on topics like ' Miyazaki Prefecture ,' ' Oita Prefecture ,' ' Takoyaki ,' ' Okonomiyaki ,' ' Firefox ,' and ' GIMP ' all had the same content as Wikipedia. Grokipedia also doesn't support Japanese, and while it can display text and tables, it doesn't display images. For this reason, there's currently no benefit for Japanese users to use Grokipedia instead of Wikipedia.

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