Elon Musk took to X on October 5, 2025, to reveal that the version 0.1 early beta of Grokipedia will be published in two weeks. The announcement builds on his earlier post on September 30, where he confirmed that xAI was building Grokipedia. He positioned the new platform as a ‘massive improvement over Wikipedia’ and ‘a necessary step toward the xAI goal of understanding the Universe.’
The seed for Grokipedia was planted during a live discussion on The All-In Podcast in September. Musk was describing how Grok xAI’s chatbot scans sources. He spoke of how Wikipedia pages, documents, PDFs, and goes on to classify statements as true, partially true, false, or missing.
The idea of Grokipedia
It was during the podcast that co-host David Sacks pitched the idea: “Could we create a Grokipedia?” He argued that Wikipedia was biased and suggested Musk could package such a service. Musk responded by saying he’d talk to his team, which evolved into the project now unveiled.
Musk has long criticized Wikipedia, often calling it “biased” or labeling it “Wokipedia.” With Grokipedia, his stated aim is to counter what he sees as misinformation, editorial slants, and selective omissions in Wikipedia’s coverage.
An open-source knowledge repository
The details are still sparse. Reports indicate Grokipedia will be an open-source knowledge repository that uses AI to correct or augment existing content. Some community speculations based on retweets that Musk has endorsed in the past suggest, that it may be free, unrestricted, and designed as a “truth-first” platform. How content moderation, bias control, and verification will work is not yet clear.
What will define Grokipedia in the coming days is how transparent it is, the methodology, how accountable it is to users and critics, and whether it can balance openness with quality control. Grokipedia could turn into a serious new chapter in how we build shared knowledge.