Elon Musk’s much-talked-about project, Grokipedia, has officially gone live.
Grokipedia doesn’t respond to conversation-style prompts. Instead, it works more like a search engine.
To use Grokipedia, users can go to Grokipedia.com
Elon Musk’s much-talked-about project, Grokipedia, has officially gone live, marking the launch of what many are calling his alternative to Wikipedia. The AI-powered encyclopedia became available in the early hours of Tuesday, though it briefly crashed before coming back online.
SurveyUnlike regular AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini or even Musk’s own Grok, Grokipedia doesn’t respond to conversation-style prompts. Instead, it works more like a search engine. Users simply need to type in the name of a topic they want to learn about, not a full question. For example, if you’re looking for information about Paris, you should just type “Paris” instead of saying “Tell me something about Paris.” Grokipedia will not understand or respond to chat-style prompts.
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Using Grokipedia is straightforward. To use the new AI encyclopedia, users can go to Grokipedia.com and start searching for topics of interest. Musk earlier claimed that Grokipedia would be a “massive improvement” over Wikipedia. However, Grokipedia seems to borrow heavily from Wikipedia itself. Some articles reportedly include a note at the bottom stating: “The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.”
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“Even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist,” Lauren Dickinson, a spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia, tells The Verge. “Wikipedia’s nonprofit independence — with no ads and no data-selling — also sets it apart from for-profit alternatives. All of these strengths have kept Wikipedia a top trusted resource for more than two decades.”
Whether Grokipedia will evolve into a true Wikipedia alternative or remain a heavily AI-powered mirror of it remains to be seen.
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