From Quartz.

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia promises instant answers. Wikipedia built its reputation on careful consensus. The fight between speed and accuracy is on

Elon Musk’s newest venture, Grokipedia, is taking direct aim at Wikipedia’s two-decade dominance in online knowledge.

Launched with roughly 800,000 AI-generated entries on Oct. 27, Grokipedia pits Musk’s automation empire against Wikipedia’s 7 million human-edited pages, representing a unique clash between open collaboration and proprietary intelligence.

Now, the stakes are high over who controls the facts in a digital information market increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. In that realm, Wikipedia and Grokipedia are competing for the same audience, but they’re each built on almost opposite philosophies.

Read more at: https://qz.com/grokipedia-versus-wikipedia-who-ya-got

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