OpenAI reports benchmark gains for COBOL and other legacy-language coding

OpenAI says its latest models have improved at writing and migrating code in COBOL, Fortran and Visual Basic, targeting languages that remain embedded in financial and other business systems. In an October 19th post on X, the company described the work as a capability update; it did not announce a standalone product. Its technical account says developers can try the models on coding tasks through OpenAI's API.