What happened?

Grokipedia is SpaceXAI's encyclopedia. Grok writes the articles and maintains them. You do not edit a page the way you edit Wikipedia. You propose a correction, or you name a topic that is missing, and Grok checks the claim against sources. If it holds, Grok approves it and the page changes. The site says this in one line: proposed by readers, checked against sources, approved by Grok.

It launched on 27 October 2025 as v0.1, with roughly 885,000 articles. A lot of those early pages were adapted from Wikipedia, and some still carry that note. v0.2 followed in November and opened the suggestion box. When the queue was healthy, Lawfare's cited Tow Center data had a median decision in about three minutes, and about 76.5% of factual suggestions were approved. On 1 October 2026 the live page listed 6,092,140 articles. The homepage ticker read 1,177,108 approved edits when we checked. Lawfare already had the landing page above 6 million in August, so this version did not arrive with a bigger library.

Then the editor went quiet, and nobody said so. Lawfare found review decisions falling off after about 24 April 2026. In their sample, no entry had changed in more than three months, and 13,002 suggestions were still sitting in review. On 29 September The Verge found the queue moving again. A reporter suggested a release date on a game page and Grok accepted it the same day. A request for a new article was still in review. A city page they opened had last been fact-checked seven months earlier. "Back" means the pipeline is on. It does not mean every page is fresh.

v0.3 shipped on 30 September. The project account posted "Introducing Grokipedia v0.3." Benji Taylor, head of design at X and SpaceXAI, called it newly refreshed. Hours later Elon Musk said it was out, and told anyone who wants to create Encyclopedia Galactica to join SpaceXAI. That is a hiring line. The site is still called Grokipedia, and it is still version 0.3.

The version itself is a front-of-site refresh, not a new model. New logo. The old homepage was a logo and a search bar. The new one shows featured articles, a most-read list, and the latest edits, and it draws some of that as books you can turn. The live edits page shows more of the recent changes at once. On the article, the fact table at the top is cleaner and the lines sit closer together. Jay Peters at The Verge compared old and new and said the rest of the article still looks largely the same.

Wikipedia's page on the project lists it as English only, owned by SpaceXAI, with a split license: an X Community License on most articles, Creative Commons BY-SA on pages derived from Wikipedia. Registration is optional until you want to suggest an edit.

Why this is interesting

  • A page that stays, with a log - A chat answer disappears when you close the tab. Here the write stays on a URL, the suggestion is recorded, and the diff is public. That is the useful part if you want a source you can send someone, not a transcript.
  • You propose, you do not publish - Good when you want a dated fact fixed and you are willing to wait for Grok. Bad when you wanted a wiki. The product is only as live as that review step. From late April to late September, that step was off, and the suggestions just sat there.
  • The size is already in Wikipedia's range - About 885,000 at launch, 6,092,140 on the live page now. Size is not the same as a fresh source. Early pages were cloned, and a page can still show a fact-check from seven months ago.
  • v0.3 is the return, not a relaunch - The homepage is easier to browse, and the queue is visible again. No new Grok was announced with it. Musk's Encyclopedia Galactica line is the ambition and a call for people. It is not a changelog.

What it is not

Not a new model. Not a site you edit yourself. Not a promise that the page you open was checked this week. Not Encyclopedia Galactica yet. Approval is not the same as a careful edit: the live feed can show a tight sourced fix next to a rough rewrite. And the article count did not move with this release. Treat 6,092,140 as the size of the library, not as news from 30 September.

Bottom line

Grokipedia is an encyclopedia Grok writes and maintains. You suggest. Grok decides. v0.3 makes the front of that clearer and puts the edit queue back on the homepage, after a freeze the company did not announce. If you want to use it, open a page you already know and check when it was last fact-checked. If you want to improve it, propose the fix and see whether it actually lands. The new name can wait until the queue stays on.