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World Wealthiest Man, Elon Musk, Disrupts Universal IT Space, Launches Grokipedia

<h4>World Wealthiest Man<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that global richest man&comma; Elon Musk has disrupted information technology architecture through another breath taking innovation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to fresh information&comma; Elon Musk’s company xAI launched Grokipedia on Monday to compete with online encyclopedia Wikipedia&comma; which he has accused of ideological bias&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The site dubbed version 0&period;1 had more than 885&comma;000 articles by Monday evening&comma; compared to Wikipedia’s more than seven million in English&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The launch came with the promise of a newer version 1&period;0&comma; which Musk said would be &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;10X better” than the current live site&comma; which he claimed is already &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;better than Wikipedia&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The goal of Grok and Grokipedia&period;com is the truth&comma; the whole truth and nothing but the truth&period; We will never be perfect&comma; but we shall nonetheless strive towards that goal&comma;” he said on X following the launch&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Grokipedia’s release had been marked down for the end of September&comma; but was delayed by the US entrepreneur to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;purge out the propaganda&comma;” Musk said in a separate X post&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Musk has been a regular critic of Wikipedia&period; In 2024&comma; he accused the site of being &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;controlled by far-left activists” and called for donations to the platform to cease&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In August&comma; he said &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Wikipedia cannot be used as a definitive source for Community Notes&comma; as the editorial control there is extremely left-biased&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The content of Grokipedia is generated by artificial intelligence &lpar;AI&rpar; and the generative AI assistant Grok&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A Grokipedia article dedicated to Musk states that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;influenced broader debates on technological progress&comma; demographic decline&comma; and institutional biases&comma; often via X&comma;” amid what the page says are &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;criticisms from legacy media outlets that exhibit systemic left-leaning tilts in coverage&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Created in 2001&comma; Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia managed by volunteers&comma; largely funded by donations&comma; and whose pages can be written or edited by internet users&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;It claims a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;neutral point of view” in its content&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Wikipedia Human Traffic Declines<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; the Wikimedia Foundation &lpar;WMF&rpar; this month reported an 8&percnt; decline in human pageviews on Wikipedia compared to the same period last year&comma; a trend the organisation attributes to the rise of generative AI and changes in information access via search and social media platforms&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Marshall Miller&comma; Senior Director of Product&comma; Core Experiences at the Wikimedia Foundation&comma; wrote that the decline reflects a fundamental change in how the public discovers information&period; He suggested that search engines are now &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;providing answers directly to searchers&comma; often based on Wikipedia content&comma;” effectively leveraging Wikipedia as source material without directing traffic to the site itself&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The reported decline follows an update to WMF’s bot detection systems&period; After observing unusually high traffic around May that appeared human but was later identified as bots designed to evade detection&comma; WMF applied a new logic to reclassify traffic from <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">March through August<&sol;a>&period; Miller noted the revised data shows &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a decrease of roughly 8&percnt; as compared to the same months in 2024&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Elon Reeve Musk<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Born on June 28&comma; 1971&comma; <strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">Elon Reeve Musk<&sol;a> <&sol;strong>is a businessman and entrepreneur known for his leadership of Tesla&comma; SpaceX&comma; Twitter&comma; and xAI&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2021&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As of early October 2025&comma; Forbes estimated his net worth to be <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">US&dollar;500 billion<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Born into a wealthy family in Pretoria&comma; South Africa&comma; Musk emigrated in 1989 to Canada&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He had obtained Canadian citizenship at birth through his Canadian-born mother&period; He received bachelor&&num;8217&semi;s degrees in 1997 from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">United States<&sol;a>&comma; before moving to California to pursue business ventures&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In 1995&comma; Musk co-founded the software company Zip2&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Following its sale in 1999&comma; he co-founded X&period;com&comma; an online payment company that later merged to form PayPal&comma; which was acquired by eBay in 2002&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That year&comma; Musk also became an American citizen&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In 2002&comma; Musk founded the space technology company SpaceX&comma; becoming its CEO and chief engineer&semi; the company has since led innovations in reusable rockets and commercial spaceflight&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Musk joined the automaker Tesla as an early investor in 2004 and became its CEO and product architect in 2008&semi; it has since become a leader in electric vehicles&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In 2015&comma; he co-founded OpenAI to advance artificial intelligence &lpar;AI&rpar; research&comma; but later left&semi; growing discontent with the organization&&num;8217&semi;s direction and their leadership in the AI boom in the 2020s led him to establish xAI&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In 2022&comma; he acquired the social network Twitter&comma; implementing significant changes&comma; and rebranding it as X in 2023&period; His other businesses include the neurotechnology company Neuralink&comma; which he co-founded in 2016&comma; and the tunneling company the Boring Company&comma; which he founded in 2017&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Musk was the largest donor in the 2024 U&period;S&period; presidential election&comma; and is a supporter of global far-right figures&comma; causes&comma; and political parties&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;30830" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-30830" style&equals;"width&colon; 225px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-30830" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;Untitled-19&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"World Wealthiest Man&comma; Elon Musk&comma; Disrupts Universal IT Space&comma; Launches Grokipedia " width&equals;"225" height&equals;"225" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-30830" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em><strong>World Wealthiest Man&comma; Elon Musk<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>In early 2025&comma; he served as senior advisor to United States president Donald Trump and as the de facto head of DOGE&period; After a public feud with Trump&comma; Musk left the Trump administration and returned to his technology companies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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