28 October,2025 04:29 PM IST | Texas | mid-day online correspondent
Grokipedia launched by Elon Musk on Tuesday. Pic/X
After a lot of speculation and rumours, Elon Musk's AI-powered online knowledge platform, Grokipedia, was officially launched on October 27.
However, within hours of the launch, the Grokipeida site went offline, only to return shortly thereafter. As per the reports, Elon's latest introduction, Grokipedia, has gone live with almost 8,85,000 articles.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk earlier announced that the AI-built knowledge platform will roll out in a few days.
Tesla chief Elon Musk, before the launch of Grokipedia, posted on a social media platform stating that his latest product will be the world's largest and most accurate knowledge source, for humans and AI, with no limits on use.
The post by Elon Musk further reads, "Grok is using massive amounts of inference compute to look at, sources like Wikipedia page and asking: What's true, partially true, false, or missing?," as per IANS.
While hailing the latest xAi-built knowledge platform, Elon Musk said that this platform will analyse sources like Wikipedia, flagging falsehoods, correcting half-truths, and adding missing context in its entries before showing the results.
Elon Musk, while posting on X, also said, "The reason why it will be the true knowledge source is because it's built solely for the truth and to navigate to the truth... free from bias or hidden agendas. Elon never does anything by half measures; he dives straight to the full extent," as per IANS.
Billionaire Elon Musk has also consistently criticised Wikipedia's funding and editorial approach. His proposal to use AI to "navigate to the truth" has generated mixed reactions on X, with some users expressing support for a new competitor, while others caution that Grok's training data may introduce new biases.
As stated during his earlier statements, Musk has said that Grokipedia is intended to be a "massive improvement over Wikipedia" and a step towards xAI's goal of understanding the universe.
Elon Musk, on October 2, became the world's first person ever to reach a net worth of $500 billion, followed by Oracle's Larry Ellison at a distant second.
Musk's AI startup xAI was valued at around USD 75 billion (as of July). xAI was targeting a $200 billion valuation after a fundraise, although Musk said the company was not raising capital at that time.
Elon Musk's feat came as Tesla shares rose over 14 per cent so far this year, closing 3.3 per cent higher on October 2, adding more than USD 6 billion to Musk's wealth.
According to Forbes' billionaires index, Musk's net worth stood at $500.1 billion as of 4.15 pm ET (1:45â¯am Thursday India time) earlier on October 2. On the other hand, Oracle Founder Ellison was the second-richest person on Forbes' list, with a net worth of about $350.7 billion, as per IANS.
(With inputs from IANS)
