WIPO: GenAI now accounts for 8.7 per cent of all AI-related patent family publications

10 august 2026

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The generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) patent landscape has reached a new milestone, with more new patents published in 2024 and 2025 than in the entire preceding ten years combined, according to new data published today by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Published GenAI patent families – a widely used measure of new inventions – rose from approximately 14,000 in 2023 to over 37,800 in 2025. More than 56,000 new GenAI patent families were published in 2024 and 2025 combined, exceeding the cumulative output of the period from 2014 to 2023. GenAI now accounts for 8.7 per cent of all AI-related patent family publications, up from 6.1 per cent in 2023 and 4.2 per cent in 2017.

«Our data shows that Gen-AI patents are no longer just being filed by tech companies but also by large enterprises in areas like finance, telecommunications, infrastructure and other digital services. While the initial impact of Gen-AI has been on content, the next frontier will be in its impact on the way we innovate» said Daren Tang, WIPO Director General.

Six of the world’s top ten GenAI patent applicants are based in China, which remains the world's largest source of GenAI patent publications by a substantial margin, with over 43,000 patent families published by China-based inventors in 2024 and 2025.

More detailed information about the report can be found here.

Based on WIPO materials

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