"This comes shortly after the billionaire said on X last month that his team at xAI was building something that would be a "massive improvement over Wikipedia." "Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe," he said in the September X post. Grokipedia.com went live on Monday afternoon, but some users said they experienced errors with the site, according to the Washington Post."
"Business Insider was able to access Grokipedia.com shortly before 7:30 p.m. ET and view an entry for Musk. The page features a search bar on a dark background, and a font style reminiscent of Wikipedia and ChatGPT. The website's landing page says Grokipedia is in "version v0.1" and has logged 885,279 articles. For comparison, Wikipedia said on its website that as of Tuesday, it had 7,081,705 articles in the English Wikipedia."
"The project marks Musk's latest attempt to challenge mainstream platforms he deems politically biased. Once an admirer of Wikipedia, Musk has accused it of harboring liberal viewpoints over the past few years and urged followers in January to "defund Wikipedia until balance is restored." In 2019, he criticized his own Wikipedia page on X, which was then Twitter, saying it was a "war zone with a zillion edits." "Just looked at my wiki for 1st time in years. It's insane!""
Grokipedia launched on Monday under Elon Musk's xAI team and reported 885,279 articles at launch. Musk described the project as a "massive improvement over Wikipedia" and said it was "a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe." The site displayed a dark landing page with a search bar and a font reminiscent of Wikipedia and ChatGPT, and listed its status as "version v0.1." Some users reported errors after the launch; Business Insider accessed an entry for Musk. Wikipedia's English edition contains over 7 million articles. Musk has repeatedly criticized Wikipedia, urging followers to "defund Wikipedia until balance is restored" and calling his own page "a war zone with a zillion edits."
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