Tianjin, China – June 20: The humanoid robot Xiaoqi was unveiled at the 2024 World Smart Expo held at the National Convention and Exhibition Center (Tianjin) in Tianjin, China on June 20, 2024. (Photo credit: VCG/VCG, Getty Images)
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China dominates the global competition for generative artificial intelligence patents, applying for more than 38,000 patents from 2014 to 2023, becoming the leader in the new generative artificial intelligence patent competition. United Nations report Show on Thursday.
The U.N.’s World Intellectual Property Organization says that’s more than six times the number of applications filed by U.S. inventors.
Generative artificial intelligence is a type of artificial intelligence that allows users to generate content such as text, images, music, audio, and video.
Geographically, China leads the way with 38,210 inventions, far ahead of the United States (6,276), South Korea (4,155), Japan (3,409) and India (1,350).
The report shows that generative artificial intelligence patents currently account for 6% of the total number of global artificial intelligence patents.
“The sharp increase in patent filing activity reflects recent technological advances and the potential of GenAI,” the report said.
Top 10 next-generation artificial intelligence patent applicants from 2014 to 2023
| Number of patents | |
| Tencent | 2,074 |
| safety Insurance | 1,564 |
| Baidu | 1,234 |
| Chinese Academy of Sciences | 607 |
| International Business Machines Corporation | 601 |
| Alibaba Group | Chapter 571 |
| Samsung Electronics | Chapter 468 |
| letter | Chapter 443 |
| Byte bounce | Chapter 418 |
| Microsoft | Chapter 377 |
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China tries to catch up with ChatGPT owner OpenAI and US tech giants Microsoft, letterof Google and Amazon In the development of large language models (LLM), it started late.
ChatGPT takes the world by storm in November 2022 Because it can produce human-like responses to user prompts.
Last year, Chinese tech giants included Alibaba and Baidu They launched their own LL.M. program to challenge their American counterparts.
In order to consolidate its position in the global technology competition, China launches three-year “action plan” In May, artificial intelligence chip standards will be strengthened to generate artificial intelligence and enhance national computing capabilities, aiming to promote technological and economic development.
Sun Wei, senior consultant for artificial intelligence research, said: “China has a huge untapped market for consumers as well as corporate and industrial partners to innovate and help introduce generative artificial intelligence technology into different applications or industries using different professionals. data set.
“That’s the key to China winning, really having real-world application deployments that could potentially surpass the U.S. in this area.”
According to the United Nations report, images and video material dominate Gen AI patents, with a total of 17,996 inventions, followed by text (13,494) and speech or music (13,480).
The agency said that by analyzing patent trends and data, its goal is to help policymakers “shape the development of GenAI for our common good.”
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