The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced that China-based organizations filed the most patents related to generative AI over the past decade, outpacing the U.S., Republic of Korea, Japan, and India combined—the four other top generative AI patent-holding nations. China filed 38,210 generative AI patents from 2014 to 2023, while the U.S. is a far second with 6,276 patents.
Other countries in the top 7 of generative AI patent applications include the Republic of Korea (South Korea) at 4,155, Japan at 3,409, India at 1,350, the U.K. at 714, and Germany at 708. This data shows how China is pushing hard to become one of the world's technological leaders. Although it still lags behind the Western world in chipmaking capabilities, this may not be true for long in the software aspect of computing.
