OpenAI says its latest models improve COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic work

OpenAI says its latest model advances give stronger capabilities for building and migrating software in COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic, which it calls low-resource programming languages.

The company says these languages run systems that banks, governments, and businesses depend on, and that the work focuses on understanding long-established business logic to help modernize them.

A separate OpenAI News post from the same day says the company is improving ChatGPT across low-resource languages and has introduced new evaluations for software engineering, SQLite, and COBOL migration. Neither post gives benchmark scores, model versions, or availability details. OpenAI says it is asking enterprise teams which languages and workflows to prioritize next.