Wikipedia is over. Musk's open-source version is launched, rewriting "truth" with AI.

Wikipedia is finally open-sourced!

On October 28th, Elon Musk officially released Grokipedia V0.1 and previewed that the 1.0 version would be ten times more powerful than the current one.

He confidently stated that even the current version is enough to outperform Wikipedia!

Entering the Grokipedia homepage, the design is very simple, with a core input box.

The background is a deep black with twinkling stars, instantly evoking the feeling of a vast ocean of knowledge.

It currently contains over 880,000 articles and mainly uses Grok to verify facts. Moreover, it supports online interaction and error reporting.

Portal: https://grokipedia.com/

Within just a few hours of its launch, this project that claims to replace Wikipedia has sparked controversy.

Some netizens have sharply commented that Grokipedia is just a "copy-paste" of Wikipedia, from the content to the layout.

As shown below, when explaining the "Miller Effect" in semiconductors, the former directly "copied" word for word.

Elon Musk was immediately slapped in the face. He said, "We can never be perfect, but we will still strive for it."

The ultimate goal of Grok and Grokipedia is truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Has the era of Wikipedia really passed?

The Open-Source "Wikipedia"

At the beginning of October, the news that the xAI team was secretly developing Grokipedia internally was officially revealed.

At that time, Elon Musk said that this is an AI-driven, open-source encyclopedia, which is a necessary step towards xAI's goal of understanding the universe.

As early as 2019, Elon Musk accidentally saw his personal introduction on Wikipedia and was extremely annoyed —

He complained that the page seemed like a battlefield with billions of edits, and he also refuted the label of "investor" that some people had given him.

Later, due to some politically incorrect issues on Wikipedia, Elon Musk had a public feud with its founder, Jimmy Wales.

This time, with the official open-sourcing of Grokipedia, has it achieved the so-called truth that Elon Musk mentioned?

Let's try it out. Searching for "Elon Musk", we can see that within a few seconds, Grokipedia quickly provides a complete introduction, comparable to a personal biography.

In addition to the opening overview, it details Musk's childhood experiences, early entrepreneurial experiences, business empire, personal life, and major events in the political and business fields.

Finally, Grokipedia also attaches over 300 reference links.

Compared with Wikipedia, Grokipedia's introduction is somewhat different, but the basic information has little difference.

The biggest difference is that there is a Grok fact-checking label above, which shows the time of the last fact-check for each article to ensure the accuracy and credibility of the content.

Moreover, users can underline the content and interact with Grok. If they find factual errors, anyone can propose improvement suggestions.

As mentioned above, Grokipedia currently contains 885,279 articles.

In comparison, Wikipedia states on its website that as of now, the English Wikipedia has 7,081,800 articles, nearly eight times the number of Grokipedia.

Rave Reviews, but Copied?

After Grokipedia was launched, due to various instabilities, it was sometimes accessible and sometimes down, which attracted a lot of complaints.

However, the industry's evaluation of the knowledge search results is mixed.

Mark Kern, the "dark" behind-the-scenes manipulator, believes that Grokipedia's definition of GamerGate is fair, and it finally tells the truth.

This is the fairest conclusion in history, rather than the lies fabricated by game media year after year that Wikipedia has been copying.

Another netizen said that the difference between the two is obvious when it comes to the handling of the "George Floyd" entry.

Grokipedia completely outperforms Wikipedia in terms of detail and narrative depth, and it doesn't output ideology like the latter.

More positive reviews are pouring in.

The problem is that careful netizens have found that a lot of content on Grokipedia is directly copied from Wikipedia.

However, just as almost all current AI searches use Wikipedia as one of their sources, as its content continues to improve, Grokipedia may soon become one of the reference sources for other AIs.

xAI

Next, let's have a simple experience.

First, let's try xAI.

Grokipedia directly provides a material of about 4,200 words, while Wikipedia only has 1,000 words.

In addition to the more detailed introduction, from the table of contents on the left side of Grokipedia, we can also see that it includes not only historical development, product technology, infrastructure, and financial performance but also controversies (such as criticism of Grok's extreme remarks).