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    By end of 2019, how many "milestone papers" will OpenAI have released?

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    This question is related to others measuring research progress, including: how many papers DeepMind will have published by mid-2019

    By Jan 1, 2020, how many "milestone releases" will be listed on OpenAI's progress page?

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    This spreadsheet contains graphs, summary stats and a bibliography of past papers and milestone papers.

    The most recent milestone releases were the powerful language model GPT-2 (Feb 2019), their findings on optimal batch sizes (Dec 2018), and the Dactyl robotics system (July 2018).

    By year, we have the following milestone counts:

    2019: 1 (as of April 4)

    2018: 6

    2017: 9

    2016: 1

    In the same period, they published 76 ordinary papers, and even more blog posts.

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    Organizational progress – OpenAI
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