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Massimo Marioni

Wikipedia cofounder takes a pop at Musk's X—and says he's never heard of Grok

Founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales talks onstage about Artificial Intelligence during Web Summit opening night (Credit: Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Getty Images)

Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales took a swing at Elon Musk's tech empire, targeting the billionaire's social network X and dismissing his new artificial intelligence chatbot Grok.

Speaking on the opening night of the controversy-plagued Web Summit in Lisbon, when asked about Large Language Models (LLMs) using Wikipedia data that feed chatbots like ChatGPT, Wales expressed satisfaction with the idea they're leveraging his site's content rather than Musk's platform.

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