OpenAI boosts GPT-6 for COBOL, Fortran, and other legacy languages
openai improved gpt-6 for low-resource languages like cobol and fortran, reaching 87.4% test pass rate on multilangbench, up from 38% for gpt-5.6 terra. this affects critical infrastructure worldwide.
openai improved its latest ai models for low-resource languages like cobol, fortran, and visual basic, which power critical infrastructure worldwide. gpt-6 astra reached 87.4% test pass rate on multilangbench across 20 languages, up from 38% for gpt-5.6 terra. on the cobol migration benchmark, gpt-6.1 sol reached 86.6% accuracy at low reasoning effort, compared to 5.4% for gpt-5.6 sol. this improvement affects industries relying on legacy systems, such as online banking and atm transactions.