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Morning Edition · Tuesday, October 20, 2026Published at 2:12 AM EDT · New York
OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol passes 86.6% of a new COBOL-migration test, up from 5.4% for GPT-5.6 Sol
The lab released its own evaluations for low-resource languages, and the gains it reports for COBOL, Fortran, OCaml and Visual Basic come with a 39% lower cost at low reasoning effort.
OpenAI published new evaluations for software engineering in low-resource programming languages, which have far less public code and documentation for training than Python or JavaScript but still run banking, insurance and government system…
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Coding is becoming a primary competitive battleground among frontier labs, with incumbents standing up permanent coding teams and investing in new training stages (e.g. midtraining) to match leaders like Anthropic; expect recurring reorganizations, benchmarks, and model releases aimed specifically at code.
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