China leads the patents race for generative AI, with Tencent and Baidu topping the list

China dominates the global race in generative artificial intelligence patents, filing more than 38,000 patents from 2014 to 2023, a new United Nations report showed Thursday. That’s six times more than those filed by U.S.-based inventors, the U.N. World Intellectual Property Organization said. Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that allows users to generate content such as text, images, music, audio and videos. Geographically, China leads with 38,210 inventions, far surpassing the U.S. (6,276), South Korea (4,155), Japan (3,409) and India (1,350). Generative AI patents currently make up...