Launch · Wednesday 21 October 2026 · story 5
OpenAI says GPT-6 improved on COBOL, Fortran and Visual Basic
THE DECODER reports OpenAI says GPT-6 models improved on low-resource languages including COBOL, Fortran and Visual Basic. OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra reached 87.4 percent on MultiLangBench across 20 languages, versus roughly 38 percent for GPT-5.6 Terra.
Why it matters. This matters if you use AI coding help on COBOL, Fortran or Visual Basic in critical infrastructure.
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