Musk’s Grokipedia faces early glitch as 900k articles go live
Elon Musk’s xAI launched Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia positioned as an alternative to Wikipedia, but the site went offline for a short period of hours after debuting on October 27 with 885,279 articles.
Grokipedia is a new online reference from xAI, the artificial-intelligence company founded by Elon Musk. It went live at grokipedia.com on Monday, October 27, with content generated by xAI’s Grok model. The site aims to counter what Musk calls editorial bias in existing encyclopedias.
Following the launch, some early users reported blocked pages. As AI researcher Tetsuo explained, the site experienced a Domain Name System (DNS) issue, and records weren’t fully propagated - a common part of setting up a new website.
Grokipedia’s early pages use a minimalist “Grokipedia v0.1” layout, and the launch tally showed 885,279 articles - far fewer than Wikipedia’s English corpus. Some entries appeared closely adapted from Wikipedia, and outside reviewers flagged several ideologically charged or inaccurate passages on day one.
“We are building Grokipedia @xAI. Will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia. Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe,” Musk wrote in September. He also said the launch had been delayed “to do more work to purge out the propaganda.”
In the final hours before launch, xAI engineers worked through the night at the company’s Los Angeles office to prepare Grokipedia. The platform marks the latest effort by Elon Musk to create AI-driven information tools under the xAI and X brands, offering an alternative to traditional encyclopedias amid ongoing criticism of Wikipedia’s editorial bias and limitations.
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