Elon Musk’s company xAI has launched a website called Grokipedia to compete with online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, which he and others on the American right wing have accused of ideological bias.

The site, dubbed version 0.1, had more than 885,000 articles by Monday evening after its launch, compared to Wikipedia’s more than 7 million in English.

The launch came with the promise of a newer version, 1.0, which Musk said would be “10X better” than the current live site, which he claimed is already “better than Wikipedia”.

Musk and the US Republican Party have frequently criticised Wikipedia, accusing a site that has become a living repository of human knowledge of being biased against right-wing ideas.

Musk, the world’s richest person and owner of social media platform X, poured hundreds of millions into US President Donald Trump’s election campaign, and claimed Grokipedia would carry “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

“We will never be perfect, but we shall nonetheless strive towards that goal,” he said on X following the launch.