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Generative AI, which produces text, images, computer code and even music from existing information, is exploding with more than 50,000 patent applications filed in the past decade, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization , which oversees a system for countries to share recognition of patents.“This is a booming area this is an area that is growing at increasing speed.
Harrison said the Chinese patent applications covered a broad area of sectors from autonomous driving to publishing to document management. Among the top applicants were China’s ByteDance – which owns video app TikTok – Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, and Microsoft, a backer of startup OpenAI which created ChatGPT.