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Chinese generative AI patents top US 6-to-1 in last decade, UN data finds
China leads in generative artificial intelligence patents, with over 38,000 filed from 2014 to 2023, surpassing U.S. inventors, per a United Nations report.
The 38,210 patents China filed represent 70% of the 54,000 global generative AI patents in the past decade, states the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Chinese companies are dominant in patent filings, with six of the top 10 applicants in the generative AI category, driven by the intense competition in the field.
54,000 patents related to artificial intelligence have been filed over the past ten years. This is reported by Tech Xplore. According to a new WIPO report from 2014 to 2023, 54,000 patents related to AI were filed. A quarter of all patent applications were filed in the last year. The WIPO report also states that most patents were filed by China. Over the past ten years, more than 38,000 innovations in the field of artificial intelligence have be…