A report released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on July 3 showed that from 2014 to 2023, more than 38,000 generative AI patent applications came out of China, ranking first in the world, six times more than those filed in the United States, which came in the second place.

The report WIPO Patent Landscape Report on Generative AI showed that 54,000 generative AI-related patents were filed worldwide over the 10-year period from 2014 to 2023, with more than 25% of those patents published last year.

In terms of categories, the image/video data category tops the list of the generative AI-related patents, with text and speech/voice/music categories in the second and third places, respectively. The top ten patent applicants are Tencent, Ping An Insurance, Baidu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, IBM, Alibaba Group, Samsung Electronics, Alphabet, ByteDance, and Microsoft, respectively. In addition to China, the main source countries for generative AI-related patent applications further include the United States, Republic of Korea, Japan and India.

(Source: Xinhua News Agency)