Two years after attempting to influence Wikipedia, Elon Musk, owner of X, announced the creation of Grokipedia, a new online encyclopedia intended to compete with the free and widely used platform.
Musk’s announcement follows public criticism of Wikipedia by David Sacks, a tech entrepreneur, investor, and White House tech czar. Sacks described the platform as biased and maintained by what he called “an army of left-wing activists,” adding that its prominence in Google search results and use in training AI models “is a huge problem.”
In a post on X, Musk described Grokipedia as “a massive improvement over Wikipedia” and framed it as part of his AI company xAI’s broader goal of “understanding the Universe.” Musk, who also owns the AI app Grok, said that Grokipedia will leverage insights from xAI’s technologies while offering an alternative to Wikipedia’s current model.
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