Elon Musk confirms Grokipedia name is temporary, plans to rebrand Wikipedia rival to…

Elon Musk has confirmed that the name Grokipedia is a temporary one that his company has assinged to its AI powered Wikipedia rival. Notably, xAI had launched the AI-generated encyclopedia last month with the aim of achieving ‘truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.’

Just weeks after the initial launch of Grokipedia, Musk confirmed that a name change for the platform is coming in the future. Writing in a post on X (formerly Twitter), Musk wrote, “When Grokipedia is good enough (long way to go), we will change the name to Encyclopedia Galactica. It will be an open source distillation of all knowledge, including audio, images and video. Join @xAI to help build the sci-fi version of the Library of Alexandria!”

Musk also went on to join Grokipedia in his mission of taking the human race to Mars and beyond. He added, “Copies will be etched in stone and sent to the Moon, Mars and beyond. This time, it will not be lost.”

With the renaming effort, Musk is once again highlighting his love for science fiction. The Encyclopedia Galactica is a fictional galaxy spanning reference book which was introduced in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. Musk has peviously praised Asimov multiple times, and even credit the author in shaping his thining about civilization, technology and humanity's long term survival.

A user on X, perhaps already familiar with Musk's love for Hitchiker's Guide to Galaxy asked the billionaire to change the name of Grokipedia to the famous science fiction novel franchise by Douglas Adams. Musk responded to the user, writing, “maybe we should”

Soon after the Grokipedia launch, however, many users pointed out that much of the content on the platform were nearly verbatim copied from Wikipedia.

Moreover, despite Musk's stated goal of creating a bias free platform, many users criticized Grokipedia for promoting right-wing viewpoints.