Ever since OpenAI was Established, Generative AI( GenAI) has been catching eyeballs in the field of Artificial Intelligence(AI). Generative AI has been used to create new tools or features almost out of nowhere. Largely, this is where the weighty investments of tech behemoths into AI technologies are being deployed today – in generative innovations such as these by way of their infinite parade. So which country is winning this race? These has been revealed of the United Nation in a current record.
The UN’s recent **Patent Landscape Report** showed that from 2014 to 2023, China filed a total of 38,210 GenAI related patents. Which is six times more than the total number of patents (6,276) that American inventors filed in this field. South Korea took third place in the list with 4,155 patents followed by Japan at fourth position and India at fifth spot with – as many as 3,409 and even a few hundred to just above half of Europe’s number (1,350) respectively.
At the top of the list Chinese entities can been all four positions based on institutions granted patents. At No. 1 and No. 3 are Chinese companies, Tencent (first) followed by Baidu due to their profitability while Ping An Insurance takes the second spot in tandem with fourth-placed The Chinese Academy of Sciences [Top five]. IBM has the highest number of overall patents filed with a tally of 601 from USA alone. By contrast, Tencent has 2,074 patents.
It seems that this UN report is yet again an extension of the increasing hegemony by China in global technology. How China will navigate in areas such as AI, which has the potential to upset regulatory and industry turf still awaits discovery.
Source: UN, Reuters
