OpenAI announced that its GPT-6 series has strengthened support for languages with scarce training data, such as COBOL and Fortran. On its ...

OpenAI reports gains in both a 20-language coding benchmark and tests of COBOL migration, while noting that production ...

OpenAI reports 87.4% average pass rate on MultiLangBench across 20 languages and 97.9% COBOL migration accuracy for GPT-6.1 ...

OpenAI improved its latest models for low-resource programming languages like COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic. On the new MultiLangBench, GPT-6 Astra hits an 87.4 percent test pass rate across 20 ...

OpenAI announced significant performance improvements in its models for programming languages with relatively little code and ...

OpenAI reports gains on its own tests for coding in COBOL, Fortran and Visual Basic, plus COBOL migration benchmarks, while ...

OpenAI today announced GPT‑6 Astra, an AI coding model tailored for COBOL, Fotran, Visual Basic, and other older programming ...

The company’s models are now better at working with COBOL and other old languages.

On October 19, 2026, an announcement posted by OpenAI on X caught my eye. It stated that the latest AI models are now capable ...

Yet, instead of celebration, much of the conversation we hear about computing education in the era of AI-programming agents ...