Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture, xAI, is extending its reach once again. A few months after announcing partnerships between its chatbot Grok and real-money prediction platforms Kalshi and Polymarket, Musk has launched a new project: Grokipedia, an AI-powered encyclopedia that promises to offer an alternative to Wikipedia. However, early reviews suggest Grokipedia may not only rival Wikipedia in content delivery, it may also reshape the information landscape along ideological lines.
Grokipedia was launched this month as what Musk described as a “super important” project for civilisation, built to challenge what he calls the mainstream media bias of Wikipedia and traditional outlets. According to The Guardian, Musk said the platform “relied on artificial intelligence and would align more with his right-wing views than Wikipedia.”
Unlike Wikipedia’s volunteer-based editing model, Grokipedia entries are written and “fact-checked” by Grok, xAI’s language model integrated into Musk’s social media platform X. The site itself admits that much of its material draws from Wikipedia, but it claims to have “reduced” what Musk views as errors or ideological slant.
Critics, however, point out that many entries closely follow conservative talking points. As The Guardian reported, Grokipedia’s article on the January 6 Capitol riot “cites widespread claims of voting irregularities”, a false narrative pushed by Donald Trump and his allies, and downplays Trump’s role in the attack.
Grokipedia’s debut comes amid a broader expansion of xAI’s products into areas where politics, finance and online gaming increasingly intersect.
Earlier this year, Musk’s chatbot Grok announced a partnership with the regulated prediction market Kalshi, providing users with “real-time analysis of economic data, political events and market news.” The partnership allows traders to use AI-generated forecasts while speculating on outcomes such as election results or interest rate changes.
Shortly afterwards, xAI announced a second collaboration, this time with Polymarket, a crypto-based prediction exchange recently cleared to operate in the U.S. after a $112 million acquisition of a licensed derivatives platform. Donald Trump Jr., who advises both Kalshi and Polymarket, called prediction markets a tool for bringing “truth and transparency” to the public.
Grok now operates within both ecosystems, allowing users to see live data and probabilities while placing bets on real-world events.
Grokipedia may represent the next phase in this strategy, a Musk-branded information network that fuels and interprets the same data used in prediction markets: Grok digests live news, Grokipedia reframes it, and prediction markets turn those interpretations into tradeable probabilities. It’s information, ideology and speculation feeding off each other.
For Musk, Grokipedia also serves as a test of Grok’s reasoning capabilities. His chatbot recently appeared in Google’s AI chess tournament on the Kaggle Gaming Arena, a live event pitting leading models such as Gemini, Claude and ChatGPT against each other in strategic games. Grok 4 lost to OpenAI’s o3 model.
Google described the event as a way to measure “whether models are actually thinking or merely imitating.” Musk’s response has been to present Grok as both a thinking assistant and an ideological actor, capable of producing not just analysis, but “truth.”
That claim may resonate with his audience on X, where he continues to frame AI development as a battle over control of information. Yet critics argue that centralising knowledge under one politically charged AI could further erode trust in public data.
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