When Elon talked at the All-In-Summit about how they want to train new versions of Grok entirely based on synthethic data David Sachs asked him to create Grokipedia as Wikipedia alternative. To me, Elon sounded at that moment like he didn’t really consider the idea before and that it made sense and promised to talk to his team about it.
I ought to know the base rate of his team deciding yes or no to ideas he got from podcast conversations but I don’t.
But it also sounds like they’re kind of already doing it for the reasons I suggested, like yes, they were doing knowledgebase consistency first and then Sachs suggested that an encyclopedia naturally falls out of that. I’d expect grok to be doing rag before making these data edits, so if the thing it’s retrieving from is also something it’s curating, organizing and possibly editing, that’s the thing.
I don’t think Elon team says “no” to Elon unless Elon asks for something that’s crazy.
Elon spoke about releasing Grokipedia in a open source fashion, which suggests other companies could also train on it instead of it being a competitive advantage in terms of training Grok.
It’s a way to make Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT less woke given that Grokipedia is supposed to be non-woke.
I’m not sure they were working on consistency. If you run a lot of Deep Research queries of all sorts of questions, you get a lot of text content that you can feed into your algorithm without needing it to be fully consistent.
When Elon talked at the All-In-Summit about how they want to train new versions of Grok entirely based on synthethic data David Sachs asked him to create Grokipedia as Wikipedia alternative. To me, Elon sounded at that moment like he didn’t really consider the idea before and that it made sense and promised to talk to his team about it.
I ought to know the base rate of his team deciding yes or no to ideas he got from podcast conversations but I don’t.
But it also sounds like they’re kind of already doing it for the reasons I suggested, like yes, they were doing knowledgebase consistency first and then Sachs suggested that an encyclopedia naturally falls out of that. I’d expect grok to be doing rag before making these data edits, so if the thing it’s retrieving from is also something it’s curating, organizing and possibly editing, that’s the thing.
I don’t think Elon team says “no” to Elon unless Elon asks for something that’s crazy.
Elon spoke about releasing Grokipedia in a open source fashion, which suggests other companies could also train on it instead of it being a competitive advantage in terms of training Grok.
It’s a way to make Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT less woke given that Grokipedia is supposed to be non-woke.
I’m not sure they were working on consistency. If you run a lot of Deep Research queries of all sorts of questions, you get a lot of text content that you can feed into your algorithm without needing it to be fully consistent.