Here’s what they say about each other: NPR

Elon Musk’s encyclopedia Grokipedia is now online, challenging volunteer-edited Wikipedia with a new tool that includes Grok, a large-scale chatbot language model developed by Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI.

Musk is positioning Grokipedia as an alternative to Wikipedia, which he calls “Wokepedia” in the X post. Last December. Musk has lofty ambitions for the new encyclopedia: his Declared goal is creating an “open source, comprehensive collection of all knowledge.”

Pundits and critics are busy comparing the two sites and how they present a range of controversial topics. But we can also learn about some of their differences by asking a simple question: What do Wikipedia and Wikipedia say about each other?

Find each other

A Searching “Wikipedia” on Grokipedia had 6,047 results early Wednesday, a number that reflects the work done at Grokipedia and the challenge of competing with an encyclopedia that has been growing for nearly 25 years.

In Wikipedia, a Searching For “Grokipedia” 13 results were shown.

Meanwhile, two days after its launch on Monday, a search for “Grokipedia” on Grokipedia did not return a custom entry. Instead, the eight search results ranged from a general entry about online encyclopedias to seven entries primarily about Wikipedia.

Writing “grokipedia” In the Grokipedia URL To see if the new encyclopedia might contain an entry that is not yet searchable, a message is displayed: “This page does not exist…yet.”

Prejudice and imitation

attic Page about WikipediaGrokipedia says the site is famous for its “unprecedented size, accessibility, and democratization of information.” But Wikipedia also says Wikipedia is the subject of “persistent criticism regarding factual reliability, susceptibility to vandalism and hoaxes, and systemic ideological biases — especially a left-wing bias in coverage of political figures and topics.”

The lengthy article uses variations of the word “bias” dozens of times. It claims that Wikipedia suffers from an “ideological skew” towards the left, and states that the site Prefer a neutral point of view Drawn from reliable sources, they can instead promote narratives that are “consistent with institutional biases in academia and the media.”

attic About Grokepedia pageWikipedia says Musk “positioned Growkipedia as an alternative to Wikipedia that would ‘cleanse propaganda.'” It also notes that Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who has become a critic of the long-running encyclopedia, welcomed Growkipedia’s arrival.

The Wikipedia article about Grookipedia highlights criticisms of the new site, such as media reports that Grookipedia Article about Elon Musk He neglects to mention the controversy surrounding a gesture he made earlier this year “which many viewed as resembling a Nazi salute.” It also says critics claim Grokipedia promotes right-leaning views and relies too heavily on artificial intelligence tools.

Wikipedia also notes that Grokipedia appears to have pulled text from Wikipedia, saying: “Some articles are almost identical to their respective Wikipedia entries.”

In some cases, Grokipedia duplicates Wikipedia content, he noted Media and Wikipedia users. Grokipedia “Buttocks” page, For example, it is practically a copy of Wikipedia page (Although without pictures).

In these and similar cases, articles acknowledge that their “content is taken from Wikipedia.”

Musk He said in All in Podcast conference In September, Grock was working on evaluating information from sources such as Wikipedia pages and then “rewriting the page in order to… remove the lies, correct the half-truths and add missing context.”

Like Wikipedia, Grokipedia users can see an article’s editing history. But while Wikipedia users can edit a story directly, Grokipedia offers tools to ask questions and submit a correction.

“Wikipedia’s knowledge is — and always will be — human,” the Wikimedia Foundation said in a statement to NPR. In a nod to the site’s spirit of open collaboration and consensus, she added: “This human-generated knowledge is what AI companies rely on to create content; even Grokipedia needs a Wikipedia.”

Nuts and bolts

Numbers rule the Internet, and these two sites are fairly accurate about the size of their competitor, with some caveats.

For example, Wikipedia says Grokipedia had “about 900,000 AI-generated articles” as of October 28. On the same day, Grokipedia said it had 885,279 articles available — a number posted on its landing page. Grokipedia’s Wikipedia entry does not indicate this exact number, which it is quote An article from Indian financial news site Moneycontrol rather than Grokipedia data – perhaps to capture a historical record of a character that will be updated. An editor later updated the quote to point to the Axios article.

Grokipedia accurately reports that as of October 2025, Wikipedia had over 7 million articles in the English language, in The main entry from its older competitor. But at the bottom of that page, the entry muddies the waters a bit by noting that Wikipedia has “more than 6.8 million articles in English alone by October 2025.”

According to the number of Wikipedia runs on Wikipedia size Page, the English-language site had over 6.9 million articles as of January 2025.

Disclosure: Katherine Maher, CEO of NPR, is the former CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation.