USA: Musk launches Grokipedia, Wikipedia’s rival, crashes after a few hours

Milan, 28 October (LaPresse) – Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has launched its first version of Grokipedia, an encyclopaedia generated by artificial intelligence with the aim of competing with Wikipedia. The billionaire founder of Tesla has long criticised Wikipedia for what he calls “editorial bias”, while describing Grokipedia as a more “truthful and independent” alternative. Based on Grok, xAI’s chatbot trained on real-time data, the platform aims to redefine the way online knowledge is created and shared. Grokipedia is now officially online at grokipedia.com, although its debut was not without problems. The site launched yesterday afternoon (last night in Italy), but crashed after a few hours, only to come back online later. Early visitors reported seeing a minimalist homepage titled “Grokipedia v0.1” with a simple search bar, Fox News reports. At launch, the platform hosted approximately 885,279 articles, although many early users claimed that large portions appeared to have been adapted or copied directly from Wikipedia.