openai_embeddings: An exception occurred when trying to view index stats.

I'd have to walk back through it again, but once I set up an index it seemed fine.

Question: In creating my Pinecone account do i just create an Index and then Drupal / Open Ai creates the collection that will be used with the selected datasets. Or in Pine cone do I need to steup an Index and then a collection from that index and Drupal populates that collection with the data?

You need to create the index in Pinecone first. Then you take the hostname they give you (https://foo-bar.baz.pinecone.etc) and put that into the module configuration screen along with your API key.

Also check out https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_ai →