{"id":89618,"date":"2025-10-06T11:27:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T08:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=89618"},"modified":"2025-10-06T11:30:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T08:30:28","slug":"elon-musk-announces-launch-of-truthful-grokipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/elon-musk-announces-launch-of-truthful-grokipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Announces Launch of &#8216;Truthful&#8217; Grokipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s AI startup xAI is set to launch an &#8220;early beta version&#8221; of Grokipedia, a competitor to Wikipedia. According to the entrepreneur, the service will counter &#8220;lies and half-truths.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Version 0.1 early beta of Grokipedia will be published in 2 weeks <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M6VrGv8zp5\">https:\/\/t.co\/M6VrGv8zp5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1974698202625679361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Details about the project remain scarce. Previously, Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1972992095859433671\">stated<\/a> that Grokipedia would be an &#8220;open-source knowledge repository.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The idea for the project emerged at the All-In Podcast summit in September. During his speech, Musk explained to participants that the Grok AI model scans various sources to verify information accuracy and then rewrites it to present the &#8220;whole truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: Elon Musk and David Sacks brainstorm Grokipedia live<\/p>\n<p>Elon:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you take, say Wikipedia as an example, but this really applies to books, PDFs, websites, every form of information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrok is using heavy amounts of inference compute to look at, as an example, a Wikipedia\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wpGjpnjtr5\">https:\/\/t.co\/wpGjpnjtr5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cBXKdQORQe\">pic.twitter.com\/cBXKdQORQe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The All-In Podcast (@theallinpod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theallinpod\/status\/1973782724075806982?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>One of the hosts suggested Musk launch Grokipedia as a separate service, to which he replied that he would discuss it with his team.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has long criticized Wikipedia, accusing the platform of misinformation, bias, and censorship. In October 2023, he offered to pay $1 billion if the site changed its name to Dickipedia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is why I said Wikipedia should be called Wokipedia (or Dickipedia \ud83d\ude02) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gnSq22Mqat\">https:\/\/t.co\/gnSq22Mqat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1972991279706636437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>His criticism is shared by Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who left the project in 2002. In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, he claimed that censorship exists on the platform. According to him, &#8220;an entire army of administrators&#8221; blocks users over ideological disagreements.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vyfKyrSAVFg?si=HAJ0ORMNOeY633BH\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>xAI&#8217;s plans are not limited to creating an encyclopedia. Musk also announced that by the end of next year, the company&#8217;s division will release an AI-generated game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The XAI game studio will release a great AI-generated game before the end of next year <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F14rJXNzk9\">https:\/\/t.co\/F14rJXNzk9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1975064769729327545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Back in August, xAI <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/elon-musks-xai-sues-apple-and-openai\">filed a lawsuit<\/a> against Apple and OpenAI, accusing them of an &#8220;anti-competitive scheme.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>xAI, Elon Musk&#8217;s venture, will launch an &#8220;early beta version&#8221; of Grokipedia, a Wikipedia rival. 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