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AnnouncementOpenAI News19 October 2026

OpenAI is training ChatGPT to handle old and rarely used coding languages

Why it matters

If your systems run on or other niche languages, OpenAI is now testing ChatGPT on migrating that code.

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Which of our legacy COBOL or niche-language systems could we test ChatGPT on for migration?

What happened

OpenAI is working to make ChatGPT better at writing software in less common programming languages. It has also built new tests covering software engineering tasks, SQLite, and moving COBOL code to newer systems.

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