From the source
OpenAI says its latest models have improved at writing and migrating code in COBOL, Fortran and Visual Basic, languages still embedded in financial and other business systems.
- In an October 19th post on X, the company described the work as a capability update rather than a standalone product.
- Its technical account says developers can try the models on coding tasks through OpenAI's API.
- The results matter because COBOL migration tests whether coding models can preserve business behavior across costly modernization projects.
- OpenAI's gains are reported on its own evaluations, and the account notes that production safety and enterprise adoption remain unresolved.