Model-generated encyclopedia at 86% of English Wikipedia’s article count. Grokipedia is xAI’s encyclopedia, its articles written by Grok rather than by volunteer editors and positioned against Wikipedia. In this corpus it appears in two consecutive issues: reaching 86% of English Wikipedia’s article count in the January 11, 2026 issue, and researching and auto-approving corrections to itself when a reader challenged an article the same day, recorded in the January 12 issue, the latter its entry in the recursive-self-improvement storyline.
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Grokipedia
xAI's online encyclopedia whose articles are generated by Grok, which reached 86% of English Wikipedia's article count in January 2026 and began auto-approving corrections to its own entries.
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- Welcome to January 11, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
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