The AI Encyclopaedia

Elon Musk, the owner of X, has long rallied against what he thinks is the woke capture of Wikipedia, the crowdsourced encyclopaedia that has been a go-to source of online information on any subject for nearly two decades. Now that he has become a serious player in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector, he has launched a Wikipedia competitor.

Grok, Musk’s AI brand, has been used to create Grokipedia. It is different from Wikipedia in that the articles are being written by AI, but there is also a human element in terms of fact-checking and verifying that readers can do. The history of the changes is openly available. Musk posted on X that it would be open source and free with truth as its guiding vision. The beta version that rolled out on October 27 has around 9 lakh articles, written by AI after trawling through online sources. It is still far behind Wikipedia’s 7 million articles. But AI can provide more efficiency, scale, and the ability to work with the information instead of just reading it. He wrote on X, “Grokipedia will exceed Wikipedia by several orders of magnitude in breadth, depth, and accuracy.”

Critics are, however, saying that Grokipedia has plagiarised from Wikipedia and that Musk’s own biases could filter into it.

Reel History

Instagram now has a watch history for its Reels. This follows demands by users who often lost track of a video they were watching because of some interruption, but then couldn’t locate it later. There is still a time limit of 30 days for the history. The feature is available on the mobile app as of now.

Android VR

Samsung has launched an extended reality headset, the Galaxy XR, which will finally give Android users the experience that Apple’s Vision Pro users have been enjoying. It is based on Google’s Android XR platform, looks similar, and offers the same immersive experience for work and entertainment. It is available for $1,799 in South Korea and the US for now.

The 4-Trillion Milestone

Apple crossed the $4-trillion mark in market capitalisation, or the value of all the company’s stocks put together. This milestone, which Microsoft and Nvidia have crossed earlier, comes on the back of strong demand for its recently released iPhone 17 series phones. The easing of trade tensions between the US and China, Apple’s major manufacturing hub, has also led to the increase.