Elon Musk's Grokipedia launched on Monday, but the encyclopedia powered by xAI's assistant Grok that's built to rival Wikipedia, crashed shortly after — leaving the site briefly inaccessible to users.

The big picture: Grokipedia was launched after Musk complained about "propaganda" on Wikipedia and, after a stuttering start, it was live late Monday evening with nearly 900,000 articles available, according to the homepage. • When asked for comment on the crash, a representative for x.ai said in an email: "Legacy Media Lies." They did not immediately respond to Axios' follow-up question Monday evening on the reason for the crash.

How it works: Many entries closely resemble their Wikipedia counterparts, but Musk's right-leaning approach shapes how some topics are framed. Musk's own Grokip

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