On July 3, local time, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released the Patent Landscape Report-Generative Artificial Intelligence. The report aims to provide a better understanding of the track of development of this rapidly advancing technology by analysis on trends and data on GenAI patents, and to help policymakers plan its development for the common good of humanity.

It is reported in the report that between 2014-2023, Chinese inventors have applied the most GenAI invention patents, far more than the United States, South Korea, Japan and India. Between 2014-2023, the global GenAI invention applications have reached 54,000, 25% of which are belong to last year.

According to WIPO, in the past ten years, more than 38,000 GenAI inventions have come out of China, six times more than second-place US (6276). The Asian countries Republic of Korea, Japan and India are other key research locations for GenAI, all ranking in the top 5 countries worldwide (third, fourth and fifth respectively).

Specifically, the top 10 companies and organizations in terms of GenAI patent applications are Tencent (2,074), Ping An Insurance (1,564), Baidu (1,234), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (607), IBM (601, US), Alibaba Group (571), Samsung Electronics (468, South Korea), Alphabet (443, US), ByteDance (418), and Microsoft (377, U.S.). Among them, the top 10 Chinese companies and organizations accounted for 6, the top 5 accounted for 4, and the top 10 in the United States accounted for 3.

U.S. think tank “Center for Security and Emerging Technologies” (CSET) found that the number of global AI research papers ranked in the top 5 are Chinese institutions, led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences; in terms of the number of highly cited papers, Chinese institutions are still in the top 5 accounted for 2, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua University ranked first and third, Google, Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ranked second, fourth and fifth, respectively. Google, Stanford University and MIT ranked second, fourth and fifth respectively.

From Electronic Intellectual Property Center, MIIT

July 4th, 2024