Wikipedia started out as a noble project. An online encyclopedia anyone could contribute to.

And for a while, it worked.

Millions of experts volunteered billions of hours to make it a success. Today the site hosts more than 65 million articles.

But over time, corruption and bias have crept in. Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger says the project abandoned its neutral viewpoint in favor of a “globalist, academic, secular and progressive” (GASP) one.

Sanger cites the Wikipedia pages of Barack Obama and Donald Trump as a prime example. Obama’s page is full of praise and positivity, while Trump’s is full of scandal and accusation.

Wiki requires facts to be cited by “reputable sources”, but the problem is that acceptable sources only present mainstream views.

Over time a few hundred power-users and administrators have taken over the site. A few are well-intentioned, but many of these top players likely represent governments and special interests.

Enter Elon Musk, and his wrecking ball…

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Prepare for Disruption

Elon Musk has long criticized Wikipedia for its bias. For example, he wasn’t happy that his Wiki page referred to him as an “early investor” in Tesla rather than a co-founder.

Hilariously, the editor who made that decision may have sealed Wikipedia’s fate.

Because Elon and his xAI company have just released the first version of Grokipedia. It’s an online encyclopedia written entirely by Grok, Elon’s advanced AI program.

And less than a month later, version 0.1 is live.

Grokipedia already hosts 885,000 articles, all written by AI with the goal of maintaining fairness and neutrality. After browsing a dozen articles, it’s already at least on par with Wikipedia.

The articles on Grokipedia are longer and go into more depth than Wiki. And they do seem more neutral and unbiased. Grok’s articles can be repetitive, and there are surely errors. But that’s also the case with Wikipedia. And at least Grok is trying to maintain a neutral perspective.

Grokipedia also has a feature where users can report errors. It’ll be interesting to see how these reports are integrated. There is always potential for abuse when you give users a feedback tool. It’s likely that users will be assigned some sort of “trust score”, which is checked by human reviewers (similar to X/Twitter).

Here’s how Elon explained the goal of xAI’s new project on a recent All-In Podcast appearance:

If you take Wikipedia as an example, but this really applies to books, PDFs, websites, every form of information, Grok is using heavy amounts of inference compute to look at a page and determine what is true, partially true, false, or missing.

Then it rewrites the page to remove the falsehoods, correct the half-truths, and add the missing context.

This is just a hint of what’s to come. In the near future, AI is set to take on a huge portion of the world’s desk and programming work.

Governments will use it to write legislation. Lawyers will use it to make arguments. Businesses will use it to varying degrees across a huge portion of tasks. People will use it as a lawyer, therapist, doctor and more.

AI is quickly becoming ubiquitous. The winners of this race will have unprecedented power. If you think Google is influential today, wait until you see what happens in AI.

The winners will control the most powerful technological tools ever created.

Governments will seek to harness and control AI algorithms. As citizens, we should be very wary of any government interference in this space.

And we should pay close attention to how the AIs we use attempt to influence our work and thoughts.

The stakes are high. AI will bring both incredible opportunity and widespread disruption.

Market Rundown for Wednesday, October 29, 2025

S&P 500 futures are up 0.20% to 6,940.

Oil is up 0.10% to $60.20 for a barrel of WTI.

Gold’s up 1.40% to $4,038.50 per ounce.

Bitcoin is down 0.65% to $113,180.