Just when you thought he must have run out of fingers to stick into pies, the world’s richest man goes and sprouts another one. This week, Elon Musk proudly launched his latest venture – not electric cars, not space exploration, not satellites, not tunnels, not social media, not brain implants, not the rolling back of the administrative state, not a new political party, but something altogether more fundamental: a new version of the truth.

“The goal here is to create an open source, comprehensive collection of all knowledge,” Musk posted on X on Tuesday, a day after his xAI company rolled out its first 0.1 version of Grokipedia, an AI-powered online encyclopedia. “Then place copies of that etched in a stable oxide in orbit, the Moon and Mars to preserve it for the future. Foundation.”

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Financial Times