The World Intellectual Property Organization has counted the patents and scientific publications related to generative AI that it could find between 2014 and 2023, and found 54,000 GenAI-related inventions and over 75,000 scientific publications – and that China completely dominates the field.
US vs China 🥊 China's Leading Generative AI Patent Race, UN Report
The organization's Patent Landscape Report – Generative Artificial Intelligence, delivered on Wednesday, found 733 patent families – sets of patents related to a single invention and with the same technical content – on GenAI in 2014 rising to more than 14,000 by 2023.
Scientific papers on the topic also exploded – from 116 in 2014 to more than 34,000 in 2023. A quarter of all GenAI patents, and over 45 percent of all GenAI scientific papers, were published in 2023 alone.
China accounted for 38,210 inventions, while the US contributed a comparatively paltry 6,276. Chinese organizations also dominated the top ten patent filing entities. Here is that list:
