Java is rising in popularity for constructing AI functions, with 62% of respondents in Azul’s just-released 2026 State of Java Survey and Report counting on Java for AI growth. Final 12 months’s report had 50% of individuals utilizing Java for AI performance.
Launched February 10, the report featured findings from a survey of greater than 2,000 Java customers from September 2025 to November 2025. The report additionally discovered that 81% of individuals have migrated, are migrating, or plan emigrate from Oracle’s Java to a non-Oracle OpenJDK distribution, with 92% expressing concern about Oracle Java pricing.
The survey found a transparent development towards embedding AI inside enterprise methods that Java already powers, based on the report. The report famous that Java builders have many AI libraries to select from when creating AI performance, the most-used amongst respondents being JavaML, adopted by Deep Java Library (DJL) and OpenCL. 31% stated that greater than half the code they produce consists of AI performance.
