OpenSearch report puts neutral AI infrastructure at 71%

The Linux Foundation Research and OpenSearch Software Foundation report that 83% of organizations run or plan to run AI workloads, while 71% call vendor-neutral infrastructure a strategic priority, in the release summarizing its 2026 open-data infrastructure report and the Linux Foundation’s report page. The finding is not an OpenSearch performance benchmark; it is a procurement signal that interoperability and cost now sit beside retrieval quality. Teams building RAG or agent search should keep an exit path across clouds, an accounting discipline echoed by our search-API cost benchmark, before letting one managed search service become infrastructure.