Elon Musk said Tuesday that his AI company xAI is building “Grokipedia” after he and his allies accused Wikipedia of bias.
“We are building Grokipedia @xAI,” Musk wrote on his social platform X. “Will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia. Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe.”
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO said his version of the online encyclopedia, apparently named after his AI chatbot Grok, would be an “open source knowledge repository” available to the public “with no limits on use.”
Musk criticized Wikipedia on Tuesday as “Wokipedia” following similar accusations from his allies. White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks slammed the site as “hopelessly biased.”
“An army of left-wing activists maintain the bios and fight reasonable corrections,” Sacks alleged on X. “Magnifying the problem, Wikipedia often appears first in Google search results, and now it’s a trusted source for AI model training. This is a huge problem.”
Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya, who hosts the “All-In” podcast with Sacks, also suggested Wikipedia was engaged in “one sided censorship.”
The latest uproar stems from conservative pundit Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who has been a critic of the project since leaving in 2002.
This isn’t the first time that Musk has taken aim at Wikipedia. The billionaire, who has previously clashed with the site’s other co-founder Jimmy Wales, offered to buy the site for $1 billion in October 2023 on the condition that it change its name to “Dickipedia.”
The Hill has reached out to Wikipedia for comment.
