Elon Musk’s Version of Wikipedia Is Live. Here’s What the Difference Is

Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s alternative to Wikipedia, came to life on Monday afternoon. Then it got dark again. Then it came back to life again on Monday evening. As of this writing, it’s up in the air. Stylistically, it looks like Wikipedia with the optional dark mode turned on.

Based on a very brief review, it contains articles on most topics one would easily expect in an encyclopedia, and claims a total of just under 900,000. Wikicount says there are about 7 million English-language articles on Wikipedia.

However, there are gaps in Grokipedia. For example, at the moment it does not appear to have a dedicated article on Department of government Efficiency (DOGE).

Musk announced that his artificial intelligence company, xAI, was building an online encyclopedia late last month, saying it would be a “huge improvement over Wikipedia.” The idea for Grokipedia was born during Musk’s appearance on the All-In Podcast. Host and fellow high-net-worth worker David Sachs asked Musk to create it, noting that Wikipedia is “hyperpartisan” and full of “activists.”

Here are some comparisons between Wikipedia articles and Gwikipedia articles. They are copied verbatim from the article introductions with footnotes and links removed for easier reading:

Nick Fuentes

Wikipedia:

Nicholas Joseph Fuentes (born August 18, 1998) is an American far-right political commentator, activist, and live broadcaster. He is known as a Christian nationalist and part of the incel subculture. His views have been described as racist, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, anti-Semitic, and Islamophobic. Furthermore, he has been described as a neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier. His supporters are known as Groypers.

Grokipedia:

Nicholas Joseph Fuentes (born August 18, 1998) is an American political commentator, live broadcaster, and activist who hosts the evening Internet show America First and organizes the annual America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC). Fuentes, who declares himself a traditional Catholic, advocates policies centered on national sovereignty, including stopping immigration, withdrawing from foreign entanglements, and preserving America’s historic majority of European descent. His rise began as a teenager supporting Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, after which he dropped out of Boston University amid threats after attending the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Great replacement

Wikipedia:

Title: The Great Replacement Conspiracy Theory

The Great Replacement (French: Grand Replacement), also known as the Replacement Theory or the Great Replacement Theory, is a debunked far-right white nationalist conspiracy theory coined by French author Renaud Camus. Camus’s theory states that, with the complicity or cooperation of “replacement” elites, the French and white European populations in general are being replaced demographically and culturally by non-white peoples – especially from Muslim-majority countries – through mass immigration, demographic growth and a decline in the birth rate among white Europeans. Since then, similar allegations have emerged in other national contexts, especially in the United States. Mainstream scholars have dismissed these claims of a conspiracy of “replacement” elites as rooted in a misunderstanding of demographic statistics and built on a racist and unscientific worldview.

Grokipedia:

Title: The Great Substitution Theory

The Great Replacement is a theory created by French writer Renaud Camus in his 2011 essay “The Great Replacement”, which asserts that the historical populations of European countries are undergoing demographic replacement through continuing high levels of immigration from Africa and the Middle East, exacerbated by replacement fertility rates among native Europeans (typically less than 1.5 children per woman in most EU countries) and relatively high fertility rates among Immigrant groups (often exceeding 2.0). Camus describes this process as an “orchestrated genocide by replacement,” driven by elite politics that favored multiculturalism over national continuity, resulting in the erosion of indigenous cultural hegemony without violent conflict. Empirical underpinnings include UN projections that net migration will account for almost all of Europe’s population stabilization or growth amid indigenous decline, with foreign-born residents making up nearly 10% of the EU population by 2024 and contributing disproportionately to births – a third or more in countries such as Austria and Germany.

Greta Thunberg

Wikipedia:

Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg (Swedish: [ˈɡreːta ˈtʉːnbærj]; born January 3, 2003) is a Swedish activist best known for lobbying governments to address climate change and social issues. She gained global attention in 2018, when she was 15, after she started a solo school strike outside the Swedish parliament, which inspired the global Fridays for Future movement. Since then, it has expanded its focus to include human rights and global justice, expressing support for Ukraine, Palestine, Armenia and Western Sahara. In 2025, Thunberg twice joined a humanitarian flotilla heading to the Gaza Strip.

Thunberg is credited with launching the “Greta Effect,” which has influenced environmental awareness and youth engagement around the world. She has received numerous accolades, including being named to Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People and being named Person of the Year in 2019.

Grokipedia:

Greta Thunberg (born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish activist recognized for launching a lone school strike for climate action on 20 August 2018 outside the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm, an action that catalyzed the international Fridays for Future movement involving millions of students protesting government inaction on climate change.

Thunberg was diagnosed at age 11 or 12 with Asperger syndrome — a form of autism spectrum disorder — along with obsessive-compulsive disorder and selective mutism, and she described these conditions as providing her with a focused “superpower” for advocacy. Her high-profile speeches at venues including the United Nations General Assembly and the World Economic Forum in Davos have amplified calls for immediate emissions cuts and policy changes, and she was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year in 2019 as the youngest recipient. Although credited with raising youth engagement in environmental issues, Thunberg’s promotion of urgent and existential climate threats has attracted scrutiny for moving away from rigorous empirical assessments of climate risks and adaptive capacities, as well as for expanding her activism into broader political arenas such as anti-capitalist protests and geopolitical protests.

In general, Grokipedia gives the impression of being a site where topics and people that Elon Musk likes or supports are presented without frames that cast any doubt on their veracity, and criticism of those he does not like is presented at the forefront.

As others have pointed out, some of the articles are as well Remarkably It is similar to Wikipedia, and has notes at the bottom that it is adapted from Wikipedia under the ShareAlike 4.0 license, which seems to indicate that these specific Grokipedia articles are also available to be shared freely. However, Grokipedia’s url is in the .com top-level domain, not a .org domain like Wikipedia.

Grokipedia is also mostly (or perhaps completely) lacking in photos and illustrations. It is understood that biographical articles do not contain portraits, but articles such as “Tesseract” would benefit from illustrative illustrations and even animation, as is the case on Wikipedia.

Some Grokipedia articles are very long and detailed, long past the point of general interest. For example, a Gizmodo article, while appearing accurate after a short inspection, would benefit from a human editor.

Overall, the project looks very similar to what it claims to be: a version of Wikipedia containing articles written by Grok, a major language model that favors Elon Musk’s views.

Gizmodo reached out to xAI about all of this, asking for comment. This email received an immediate three-word response: “Legacy Media Lies.”