Wikipedia Vs Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: AI-Driven Encyclopaedia Takes News18 Test, Here’s The Result

Last Updated:October 28, 2025, 13:18 IST

Elon Musk has claimed that Grokipedia 0.1 is better than Wikipedia and version 1.0 of Grokipedia will be 10x better. A look at 5 key differences and how it fared in the News18 test

Elon Musk's AI-driven Grokipedia will compete with Wikipedia.

Elon Musk has launched his version of Wikipedia with artificial intelligence (AI) called Grokipedia. He shared a post on X confirming the availability of Grokipedia.

Musk has claimed that Grokipedia 0.1 is already better than Wikipedia and version 1.0 of Grokipedia will be 10x better.

The 5 key differences between Wikipedia and Grokipedia:

1. Origin and Purpose: Wikipedia was created in 2001 as a non-profit, community-driven encyclopedia — a collective effort to share verified human knowledge freely with the world. Grokipedia aims to use the AI Grok model to compile and update information faster than traditional editing systems.

2. Content Creation Process: Wikipedia relies almost entirely on human editors and volunteers who write, review, and update articles with cited sources. Every change is logged and visible publicly. Grokipedia is expected to automate much of this process through AI generation, summarising large volumes of data and possibly updating in real time. Human oversight may exist, but AI will likely be the primary content creator rather than community editors.

3. Governance and Transparency: Wikipedia operates under the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit with publicly available policies, open moderation processes, and edit histories visible to all. Grokipedia will likely be corporate-owned and centrally managed by xAI, meaning its editorial transparency, bias control, and accountability mechanisms are not yet known or guaranteed to be open to the public.

4. Reliability and Bias: Wikipedia has well-documented issues like inconsistent quality and editorial bias, but its open nature allows users to inspect sources and correct errors collaboratively. Grokipedia, using AI-generated content, may risk hallucinations or hidden biases from training data, and since edits may not be publicly traceable, verifying factual accuracy could be more difficult in its early stages.

5. Accessibility and Philosophy: Wikipedia is free, open-source, multilingual, and built on the philosophy that “knowledge should belong to everyone." Anyone can contribute and access its content. Grokipedia is expected to integrate into Musk’s xAI and X (Twitter) ecosystem — meaning it may be partially closed, monetized, or limited to certain platforms or users, aligning more with tech-company control than open collaboration.

News18 tests Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

News18 tried to test Grokipedia by asking about India’s freedom struggle. While Wikipedia had the answer ready in seconds, Grokipedia needed multiple keywords to get the correct result.

The Wikipedia result in seconds:

Here’s what happened in case of Grokipedia:

Take a look.

The final result:

Also, the brief testing showed that at the moment, Grokipedia has no results for niche topics.

What’s the verdict?

The structure is similar to that of a Wikipedia page, but the Grokipedia’s database is not extensive. While still evolving, database and sourcing would play a key role in making Grokipedia a challenger for Wikipedia.

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