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title: "OpenAI says its new models show major performance leaps in low-resource legacy languages like COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic, used by banks and governments (OpenAI)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/openai-says-its-new-models-show-major-performance-leaps-in-low-48281844
published: 2026-10-20T09:50:04.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# OpenAI says its new models show major performance leaps in low-resource legacy languages like COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic, used by banks and governments (OpenAI)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-10-20 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/openai-says-its-new-models-show-major-performance-leaps-in-low-48281844

OpenAI : OpenAI says its new models show major performance leaps in low-resource legacy languages like COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic, used by banks and governments — Our latest model advances bring stronger capabilities for building and migrating software in low-resource programming languages such as COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic.

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261020/p5#a261020p5)

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