{"slug": "grokipedia", "name": "Grokipedia", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI tools and apps", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 17, "warners": 10, "score": -4.105, "rising": -1.31, "first": "2025-11-01", "latest": "2026-07-08", "why": "Grokipedia seems like a useful product from xAI to me.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 10}, "spark": [1, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Grokipedia seems like a useful product from xAI to me.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "grokipedia.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://grokipedia.com", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Grokipedia"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 781381568, "item_id": 48836348, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48836348", "by": "tistoon", "date": "2026-07-08", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Unbiased equivalent is now https://www.grokipedia.com", "excerpt": "Unbiased equivalent is now https://www.grokipedia.com", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Wikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the Internet"}, {"id": 752981216, "item_id": 47061326, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47061326", "by": "xacky", "date": "2026-02-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it, and if you don't like the point of view then make your own AI encyclopedia.", "excerpt": "I use it, and if you don't like the point of view then make your own AI encyclopedia. I'm fed up of Wikipedia, it's no longer the encyclopedia that anyone can edit since all controversial articles are BLUELOCKed to people who have to make 500 edits outside of their field of interest before they can actually contribute, Wikipedia is doing the same gate keeping that Britannica did. Wikipedia keeps telling established a", "context": "", "use_case": "encyclopedia", "switched_from": "Wikipedia", "story": "I don't know anyone who uses Grokipedia, it will never work, says Jimmy Wales"}, {"id": 752957488, "item_id": 47059843, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47059843", "by": "aregue", "date": "2026-02-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Grokipedia seems like a useful product from xAI to me.", "excerpt": "Grokipedia seems like a useful product from xAI to me. It is the first major change in how to write an encyclopedia since Wikipedia. On the topics that I have compared, Grokipedia entries are more comprehensive and relevant than Wikipedia ones. The only minus is that it lacks pictures. As an example compare the entries on the Norwegian lake Tinnsj\u00e5: https://grokipedia.com/page/Tinnsj%C3%A5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wi", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I don't know anyone who uses Grokipedia, it will never work, says Jimmy Wales"}, {"id": 732612752, "item_id": 45788297, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45788297", "by": "whatthesmack", "date": "2025-11-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Grokipedia isn't encumbered by a Perennial Sources List", "excerpt": "> At least Grokipedia tries to look like it was written with the intent to inform, not spoonfeed an opinion. In addition, Grokipedia isn't encumbered by a Perennial Sources List[0] whose \"generally reliable\" section consists entirely of center and/or center-left media sources, and seems to be entirely purposed for gatekeeping. The web site of the US television news network with by far the most viewership (Fox) was mo", "context": "", "use_case": "encyclopedia", "switched_from": "Wikipedia", "story": "Tim Bray on Grokipedia"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 753958737, "item_id": 47122421, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47122421", "by": "UltraSane", "date": "2026-02-23", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "linking to grokipedia feels like intentional rage-baiting.", "excerpt": "\"hey have lots of Model Ys in Austin as Robotaxis right now with no drivers\" They do not. They have a very small number of them open to a select number of people, not the general public. And they are limited to even smaller areas. You need to understand that Musk is NOT an engineer, he is more of a con man desperate to inflate tesla stock price. If he says self driving cars don't need LIDAR then they must actually ne", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics"}, {"id": 753954688, "item_id": 47122168, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47122168", "by": "moooo99", "date": "2026-02-23", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "linking to fake Wikipedia is actually hilarious", "excerpt": "> Look it's clear you have a huge bias I would urge you to read up on https://grokipedia.com/page/List_of_fallacies otherwise your emotional responses will blind you to reality. Writing this and linking to fake Wikipedia is actually hilarious.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics"}, {"id": 753835552, "item_id": 47114722, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114722", "by": "graemep", "date": "2026-02-22", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Some other articles are fine, but its horribly unreliable.", "excerpt": "Some other articles are fine, but its horribly unreliable. I tried subject of the first wikipedia article in my browser history search. It was Malleus Maleficarum. The first part of the text was correct and a decent summary, the rest suddenly switched to an article about an album called Hammer of the Witch by a band called Ringworm. Images are a weak point. No image of the Sri Lankan flag, a weird one of the flag of ", "context": "", "use_case": "encyclopedia", "switched_from": "", "story": "An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia"}, {"id": 748312944, "item_id": 46769559, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46769559", "by": "mrtesthah", "date": "2026-01-26", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "The real harm is when the LLM is trained on racist and neo-nazi worldviews like the one Musk is embedding into Grokipedia", "excerpt": "This is related to grounding in search results. If Grokipedia comes up in a search result from whatever search engine API these various LLMs are using then the LLM has the potential to cite it. That can be detected at least. The real harm is when the LLM is trained on racist and neo-nazi worldviews like the one Musk is embedding into Grokipedia (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/17/grokipedia-elon-musk-", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["encyclopedia"], "compared": [{"slug": "wikipedia", "name": "Wikipedia", "co": 7, "switched_from": 2, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46101949", "title": "Grokipedia is the antithesis of Wikipedia", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075455", "title": "Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47113769", "title": "An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47059767", "title": "I don't know anyone who uses Grokipedia, it will never work, says Jimmy Wales", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48812043", "title": "Wikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the Internet", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366666", "title": "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 1, "warn": 3}, "2025-12": {"warn": 1}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 1, "warn": 3}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 2, "warn": 3, "neutral": 1}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "quotes": [{"id": 781381568, "item_id": 48836348, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48836348", "by": "tistoon", "date": "2026-07-08", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Unbiased equivalent is now https://www.grokipedia.com", "excerpt": "Unbiased equivalent is now https://www.grokipedia.com", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Wikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the Internet"}, {"id": 757922992, "item_id": 47370187, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47370187", "by": "scottyah", "date": "2026-03-13", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "> \"grokipedia\" as idea So you can understand someone not liking something, but you cannot understand that person liking the idea of an alternative? What is the idea for you if not just an alternative to the established service with the undesired part changed?", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"}, {"id": 753958737, "item_id": 47122421, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47122421", "by": "UltraSane", "date": "2026-02-23", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "linking to grokipedia feels like intentional rage-baiting.", "excerpt": "\"hey have lots of Model Ys in Austin as Robotaxis right now with no drivers\" They do not. They have a very small number of them open to a select number of people, not the general public. And they are limited to even smaller areas. You need to understand that Musk is NOT an engineer, he is more of a con man desperate to inflate tesla stock price. If he says self driving cars don't need LIDAR then they must actually ne", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics"}, {"id": 753954688, "item_id": 47122168, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47122168", "by": "moooo99", "date": "2026-02-23", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "linking to fake Wikipedia is actually hilarious", "excerpt": "> Look it's clear you have a huge bias I would urge you to read up on https://grokipedia.com/page/List_of_fallacies otherwise your emotional responses will blind you to reality. Writing this and linking to fake Wikipedia is actually hilarious.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics"}, {"id": 753895200, "item_id": 47118450, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47118450", "by": "greggoB", "date": "2026-02-22", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "the reason is Musk didn't like that the Wikipedia article on him", "excerpt": "> not to mention the its bias is reason that Grokipedia came about in the first place. No, the reason is Musk didn't like that the Wikipedia article on him added the factual record of him doing a Nazi salute [0] [0] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/united-states/article/2025/01/23/musk-wikipedia-founder-in-row-over-how-to-describe-nazi-salute_6737328_133.html", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia"}, {"id": 753835552, "item_id": 47114722, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114722", "by": "graemep", "date": "2026-02-22", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Some other articles are fine, but its horribly unreliable.", "excerpt": "Some other articles are fine, but its horribly unreliable. I tried subject of the first wikipedia article in my browser history search. It was Malleus Maleficarum. The first part of the text was correct and a decent summary, the rest suddenly switched to an article about an album called Hammer of the Witch by a band called Ringworm. Images are a weak point. No image of the Sri Lankan flag, a weird one of the flag of ", "context": "", "use_case": "encyclopedia", "switched_from": "", "story": "An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia"}, {"id": 752981216, "item_id": 47061326, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47061326", "by": "xacky", "date": "2026-02-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it, and if you don't like the point of view then make your own AI encyclopedia.", "excerpt": "I use it, and if you don't like the point of view then make your own AI encyclopedia. I'm fed up of Wikipedia, it's no longer the encyclopedia that anyone can edit since all controversial articles are BLUELOCKed to people who have to make 500 edits outside of their field of interest before they can actually contribute, Wikipedia is doing the same gate keeping that Britannica did. Wikipedia keeps telling established a", "context": "", "use_case": "encyclopedia", "switched_from": "Wikipedia", "story": "I don't know anyone who uses Grokipedia, it will never work, says Jimmy Wales"}, {"id": 752957488, "item_id": 47059843, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47059843", "by": "aregue", "date": "2026-02-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Grokipedia seems like a useful product from xAI to me.", "excerpt": "Grokipedia seems like a useful product from xAI to me. It is the first major change in how to write an encyclopedia since Wikipedia. On the topics that I have compared, Grokipedia entries are more comprehensive and relevant than Wikipedia ones. The only minus is that it lacks pictures. As an example compare the entries on the Norwegian lake Tinnsj\u00e5: https://grokipedia.com/page/Tinnsj%C3%A5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wi", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I don't know anyone who uses Grokipedia, it will never work, says Jimmy Wales"}, {"id": 748312944, "item_id": 46769559, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46769559", "by": "mrtesthah", "date": "2026-01-26", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "The real harm is when the LLM is trained on racist and neo-nazi worldviews like the one Musk is embedding into Grokipedia", "excerpt": "This is related to grounding in search results. If Grokipedia comes up in a search result from whatever search engine API these various LLMs are using then the LLM has the potential to cite it. That can be detected at least. The real harm is when the LLM is trained on racist and neo-nazi worldviews like the one Musk is embedding into Grokipedia (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/17/grokipedia-elon-musk-", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries"}, {"id": 748036768, "item_id": 46752298, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46752298", "by": "guilamu", "date": "2026-01-25", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Grokipedia is useful for quick orientation but unreliable for serious research", "excerpt": "I asked 6 llms \"What do you think of Grokipedia as a factual source of information?\". Results: https://pastebin.com/cuxfHAr4 I then asked Claude Opus to sumup: https://markdownpastebin.com/?id=aa29d92662ac4a9ea7f9b3c1d9aba4ec Bottom Line All LLMs agree: Grokipedia is useful for quick orientation but unreliable for serious research, especially on political, controversial, or current event topics. Wikipedia remains the", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk's Grokipedia as source, tests reveal"}, {"id": 746273248, "item_id": 46642078, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642078", "by": "Anthony-G", "date": "2026-01-15", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "its search feature sucks", "excerpt": "I hadn\u2019t heard of Grokipedia so based on the positive comments in this thread, I thought I\u2019d try it out \u2013 only to discover that its search feature sucks. I\u2019ve just finished watching a HBO TV show on Blu-Ray called \u201cThe Night of\u201d so I tried searching for it on Grokipedia. It failed to find an article about the TV series in the first 60 search results (regardless of whether I used double quotes or appended the words \u201cT", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "25 Years of Wikipedia"}, {"id": 743785296, "item_id": 46486581, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46486581", "by": "__patchbit__", "date": "2026-01-04", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "There is https://grokipedia.com which encourages you to suggest an article", "excerpt": "There is https://grokipedia.com which encourages you to suggest an article and you may submit improvements to an existing article.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"}, {"id": 737675648, "item_id": 46104728, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46104728", "by": "tavavex", "date": "2025-12-01", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Why not Reddit? Of course, it's far from a paragon of truth, and it's getting more manipulated and overtaken by bots by the minute, but adding \"reddit\" to my search queries (in search engines, that is) had always been my go-to for finding answers and threads by actual people, especially if we're talking about technical advice or getting an opinion on something. It's like finding forum threads on something I'm interes", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Grokipedia is the antithesis of Wikipedia"}, {"id": 737653520, "item_id": 46103345, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46103345", "by": "femiagbabiaka", "date": "2025-11-30", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Nazism and white nationalism, for starters. This is all gone over in that laughable article. To help, here's the study referenced, which has two, not one, researchers cited: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09685. They also published their data on GitHub: https://github.com/htried/wiki-grok-comparison/tree/main. I suspect that you might've tried to use an LLM to summarize the article, which is why you missed critical data ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Grokipedia is the antithesis of Wikipedia"}, {"id": 737648992, "item_id": 46103062, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46103062", "by": "kuba50", "date": "2025-11-30", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "The problem is not whether you are impressed or not. The problem is in the assumption/story/belief that \"Intelligence\" is \"magic\" can be \"perfected\". It's not true. Philosophers have known it forever. And the AI hypestorm will remind everyone how over rated intelligence actually is. Intelligence can produce Socratic thought. It can also get Socrates killed. It can produce Aristotle and chase Aristotle out of the vill", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Grokipedia is the antithesis of Wikipedia"}, {"id": 737640560, "item_id": 46102535, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46102535", "by": "femiagbabiaka", "date": "2025-11-30", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "It is not possible to make a good version of Grokipedia", "excerpt": "It is not possible to make a good version of Grokipedia while satisfying the requirements of its owner, namely to launder ultra-right viewpoints[1]. 1: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/elon-musk-grokipedia-wikipedia-neo-nazi-grok-42-encyclopedia-rcna244749", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Grokipedia is the antithesis of Wikipedia"}, {"id": 733115600, "item_id": 45819725, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45819725", "by": "labrador", "date": "2025-11-04", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "his AI generated Grokipedia is introducing hallucinations as fact", "excerpt": "https://archive.is/3FTO1 > tutors were given a form to sign granting xAI \u201ca perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, royalty-free license\u201d to use, reproduce and distribute their faces and voices, as part of a confidential project code-named \u201cProject Skippy,\u201d according to a copy of the agreement reviewed by the Journal. > During the meeting, one employee said she was concerned that xAI would sell her face ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tesla Is Obsessed with Musk's Pay Package. Musk Is Obsessed with AI"}, {"id": 732612752, "item_id": 45788297, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45788297", "by": "whatthesmack", "date": "2025-11-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Grokipedia isn't encumbered by a Perennial Sources List", "excerpt": "> At least Grokipedia tries to look like it was written with the intent to inform, not spoonfeed an opinion. In addition, Grokipedia isn't encumbered by a Perennial Sources List[0] whose \"generally reliable\" section consists entirely of center and/or center-left media sources, and seems to be entirely purposed for gatekeeping. The web site of the US television news network with by far the most viewership (Fox) was mo", "context": "", "use_case": "encyclopedia", "switched_from": "Wikipedia", "story": "Tim Bray on Grokipedia"}]}