XAI Announces Open-Source Grokipedia; Details Scarce

Elon Musk's AI firm xAI announced it is building Grokipedia, an AI-powered alternative to Wikipedia that xAI says will be open-source and available to the public with 'no limits on use.' The project will be powered by xAI's Grok chatbot, which has previously produced conspiracy-tinged and antisemitic outputs, raising reliability concerns. Allies including David Sacks and Chamath Palihapitiya have criticized Wikipedia for alleged left-wing bias and backed the initiative, and Musk's prior public campaigns against Wikipedia — including a conditional $1 billion offer and calls to defund the site — add political context. Reporters and experts caution that an AI-centered encyclopedia can reproduce algorithmic bias, enable information manipulation, and suffer governance opacity without robust transparency, vetting, and community oversight. Basic details such as release timing, operational rules, and how content will be generated or curated remain unclear.