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1. Oct 19
   OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra sharply improves coding in COBOL, Fortran and Visual Basic

   OpenAI published research saying its latest models are substantially better at building and migrating software in low-resource languages such as COBOL, Fortran and Visual Basic, which it says have far less training code than Python or JavaScript yet support critical infrastructure. On MultiLangBench, which asks models to build a SQLite-compatible database engine from scratch in 20 languages, OpenAI reports GPT-6 Astra reached an 87.4% average test pass rate at maximum reasoning effort versus 26.8% for GPT-5.6 Sol, with COBOL rising from 10.9% to 72.1% and cheaper GPT-6 Luna averaging 40.3%. On a separate COBOL-to-C++, Java, Kotlin, Python or Rust migration benchmark, OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol scored 86.6% at low reasoning effort versus 5.4% for GPT-5.6 Sol, and 97.9% at higher effort. OpenAI cautions that applying such migration results to production software still requires expert review and testing against business rules and dependencies.

   OpenAI · 🔥 0
2. Oct 12
   BotMan AI uses knowledge graphs to modernize legacy applications

   In an interview with theCUBE, BotMan AI founder and CTO Alejandro D'Andrea said the company runs an AI-powered migration pipeline that maps an application's dependencies, business logic and data models into a knowledge graph so agents can interpret the system being rebuilt. He said the approach targets legacy code bases such as Delphi, Visual Basic and Oracle Forms, ingesting the whole system at once and migrating it "fully autonomously," re-architecting rather than simply translating old code into a newer language. D'Andrea added that the graph can supply reusable business context for later agent tasks, linking unstructured information to entities such as people, projects and products.

   SiliconANGLE AI · 🔥 0

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