China has filed more than 38,000 artificial intelligence patent applications, far and away the highest number in the world, nearly six times that of the second-placed United States.
They looked at the number of patents related to 'generative AI' filed in the 10 years up to 2023 and found that of the total 54,000 patent applications, 38,000 came from China. The top five countries, in order, were China, the United States, South Korea, Japan, and India.
China-Based Inventors Filing Most GenAI Patents, WIPO Data Shows
Patent Landscape Report - Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)
According to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) , China has filed more patent applications for generative AI than any other country, accounting for about 70% of the total, with 38,000 applications. This figure is far ahead of the second-placed United States (6,276 applications). In third place was South Korea with 4,155 applications, in fourth place was Japan with 3,409 applications, and in fifth place was India with 1,350 applications.
The top 10 applicants are Tencent (2,074 applications), Ping An Insurance (1,564 applications), Baidu (1,234 applications), Chinese Academy of Sciences (607 applications), IBM (601 applications), Alibaba Group (571 applications), Samsung Electronics (468 applications), Alphabet (443 applications), ByteDance (418 applications), and Microsoft (377 applications).
The breakdown is that image and video data-related patents accounted for the majority at 17,996, followed by text-related patents at 13,494 and audio and music-related patents at 13,480. In addition, patents using molecular, gene, and protein-based data are increasing rapidly, with an average annual growth rate of 78% over the past five years.
According to WIPO, since the emergence of deep neural network architectures in 2017, the number of generative AI patents has increased eightfold, and more than 25% of generative AI-related patents will be published as of 2023. However, WIPO points out that generative AI patents account for only 6% of all patents, which is still low.
Related Posts:
in Posted by log1p_kr