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 on Thursday showed.

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), Republic of Korea (4,155), Japan (3,409) and India (1,350).

"The sharp rise in patenting activity reflects the recent technological advances and the potential within GenAI," the report said.

China has sought to catch up with ChatGPT owner OpenAI and U.S. tech titans Microsoft , Alphabet 's Google and Amazon in the development of large language models (LLM), after being late to the game.

Last year, Chinese tech giants including Alibaba and Baidu launched their own LLMs to challenge their U.S. counterparts.

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