# GLUE

> Nine tasks collapsed into one number, and the number was 70.0 the day it opened — low enough that its own authors called that a problem. Fifteen months later the frontier was 88.4, past the human baseline of 87.1, and those same authors published SuperGLUE because nothing was left here to measure.

2018-04-20 — 2019-07-12

A benchmark gets no deprecation notice, so this date is this archive's editorial judgment rather than an announcement.

## The record

- Cause of death: Superseded
- Frontier at launch: 70%
- Frontier at death: 88.4%
- Practical ceiling: 91.3% (best posted — Vega)
- Succeeded by: [superglue](https://models.rip/superglue/epitaph)

## Sources

- https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07461
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00537
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.09268

## Elsewhere

- [Stand at this grave](https://models.rip/glue)
- [The benchmarks plot](https://models.rip/benchmarks)
- [The whole cemetery](https://models.rip/)