Grokipedia, the encyclopedia powered by xAI’s assistant Grok briefly went online Monday, before it promptly crashed. At the time of this writing, the website appears to be working, and contains more than 885,000 articles, according to a counter on class=”link ” href=”https://grokipedia.com/” data-i13n=”cpos:1;pos:1″ rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:its homepage;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”>its homepage.
Musk, who has previously class=”link ” href=”https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/elon-musk-also-has-a-problem-with-wikipedia” data-i13n=”cpos:2;pos:1″ rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:railed against;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”>railed against Wikipedia, has described the project as a “a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe.” Musk and his allies have long claimed that Wikipedia is biased. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales class=”link ” href=”https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/wikipedia-founder-responds-to-elon-musk-wokepedia” data-i13n=”cpos:3;pos:1″ rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:has…
