Grokipedia

Grokipedia is an online encyclopedia written by artificial intelligence (AI) and built by SpaceXSI, the AI unit of SpaceX that Elon Musk founded as xAI, and it is set up as an alternative to Wikipedia. Its pages are written and kept up to date by Grok, the company's large language model, which is a system trained to produce human-like text, rather than by an open crowd of volunteer editors. You can read any entry for free and send in a suggestion, and Grok decides whether it makes the cut. The site went live on October 27, 2025 with 885,279 articles, many of them Wikipedia entries that Grok rewrote.

What is Grokipedia?

Grokipedia is a read-only reference library that the Grok model writes and keeps current. Even the name is temporary, because Elon Musk has said that once the quality is high enough the project will be renamed Encyclopedia Galactica and become an open-source gathering of all knowledge, including audio, images, and video. At launch the product carried a version number, 0.1, which is Elon's way of marking it as an early build.

Why Grokipedia Exists

Elon Musk announced the project on X on September 30, 2025, calling it a necessary step toward xAI's goal of understanding the universe and a real improvement over Wikipedia, which he sees as slanted by politics. The idea is that an encyclopedia written by a model that belongs to no faction can, at least in theory, get past the human fights over who controls a page.

How it Works

Grok writes the entries, and readers get a read-only library with one way back in: you propose a change, and the model reviews it. From version 0.2 onward this became a two-way loop, where a human sends a suggestion in and the AI checks it and sends a verified result out. When software does the work instead of thousands of volunteer hours, the cost of writing the next article drops toward the cost of computing power rather than the cost of paying a person.

The Economics of Grokipedia

Grokipedia has no listed price and no revenue line reported on its own, so its value to SpaceXSI is strategic rather than something you can put a dollar figure on. A knowledge base that keeps refreshing is also training and grounding material for the company's larger effort, and every verified edit makes the model that writes the next article a little bit better. Similarweb counted more than 460,000 U.S. visits on October 28, 2025, the day after launch, and a steady base of about 35,000 a day by mid-November.

Current Status of Grokipedia

Grokipedia grew fast early on. It passed 1 million articles by its version 0.2 release on November 21, 2025, and by the March 8, 2026 snapshot it reported 6,092,140. The count then held steady while Grokipedia paused user edits around March 22, 2026 and Grok's automatic rewrites in late April, ahead of the version 0.3 release.

Set against Wikipedia, the leader it is chasing, the gap closed fast.

As of March 2026 the platform reported its 6.09 million articles against English Wikipedia's roughly 7.14 million, a collection human editors have built since 2001. Both counts here come from Grokipedia's own pages. The same snapshot logged 928,583 approved edits, each one a user suggestion that Grok checked and let through.

What Comes Next

Version 0.3, released on September 30, 2026, restarted Grok's automatic updates and user suggestions and added featured and most-read sections to the homepage. The plan points toward the open-source, multimedia Encyclopedia Galactica, and Knowledge Panels, sidebars that sum up an article's key facts, arrived on January 23, 2026. Elon has set a high bar for version 1.0:

The Bottom Line

Grokipedia is Elon's bet that an encyclopedia can be written by a machine instead of built by hand, and that machine speed plus AI review can rival in months what took people 25 years to assemble. The article count arrived fast, and version 0.3 restarted the updates that keep it growing.