WIPO China: GenAI Innovation Soaring, With Patent Activity Nearly Tripling in Two Years
世界知识产权组织（WIPO）最新数据显示，生成式人工智能（GenAI）专利格局迎来里程碑式突破：2024 年至 2025 年公布的新专利数量，已超过过去十年的总和。
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 recently by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
专利爆发：两年增量超去十年总和
作为衡量新发明的关键指标，已公布的生成式人工智能专利族数量从 2023 年的约 1.4 万个激增至 2025 年的逾 3.78 万个。2024 与 2025 年合计公布超 5.6 万个新专利族，超越 2014 至 2023 年累计总量。目前，GenAI 占 AI 相关专利族公布总量的 8.7%，显著高于 2023 年的 6.1% 及 2017 年的 4.2%。
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.
上述数据源自产权组织最新一期《技术 SPARK 报告》（分析、研究与知识简报），该报告深入剖析了 GenAI 创新的地理分布、驱动主体及前沿技术趋势。
The findings come from the latest edition of WIPO's new Technology SPARK (Short Pieces of Analysis, Research and Knowledge) report, which provides the most current picture of where GenAI innovation is happening, who is driving it, and which technologies are at its leading edge.
报告指出，大型跨国企业在 GenAI 专利保护竞赛中日益占据主导地位，且申请人背景日趋多元化。
The report also reveals that the race to protect generative AI inventions is increasingly being led by large multinational enterprises operating across diverse industries.
日本软银以近两年近 3000 个专利族的公布量位居全球首位；中国腾讯、平安集团、百度紧随其后。美国科技巨头 Alphabet、微软和 IBM 亦跻身全球前十。
Japan's SoftBank is the world's leading GenAI patent applicant, publishing nearly 3,000 patent families during 2024 and 2025. This is followed by China's Tencent Holdings, Ping An Insurance Group and Baidu, alongside research institutions and infrastructure companies. Tech giants Alphabet, Microsoft and IBM from the United States also feature in the top ten.
“数据显示，GenAI 专利申请人已不再局限于科技公司，金融、电信、基础设施及数字服务等领域的大型企业纷纷入局。GenAI 的初期影响体现在内容创作，而下一个前沿将是其对创新模式的深远重塑。”
——产权组织总干事 邓鸿森
Our data shows that Gen-AI patents are no longer just being filed by tech companies but also by large enterprises to 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.
– WIPO Director General Daren Tang
全球格局：中国领跑，美日增速显著
全球前十大 GenAI 专利申请人中，六家总部位于中国。中国以绝对优势保持全球最大 GenAI 专利来源国地位，2024 至 2025 年公布专利族超 4.3 万个，2023 至 2025 年间复合年增长率（CAGR）达 64%。
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. China's compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for GenAI patent families between 2023 and 2025 stands at 64 per cent.
同期，美国 CAGR 为 92%，商业开发浪潮正加速转化为专利活动。日本以 210% 的 CAGR 创下主要发明地最高相对增长率，全球排名由第四跃升至第三。
The United States recorded a 92 per cent CAGR over the same period, as the wave of commercial GenAI development by American companies began to translate into accelerating patent activity. Japan recorded the highest relative growth rate of any top inventor location – a 210 per cent CAGR – rising from fourth to third place globally.
德国以 85% 的 CAGR 超越英国，成为欧洲领先的 GenAI 发明地。加拿大和瑞士亦实现三位数增长（分别为 109% 和 124%）。全球前十大发明地中，有七个在过去两年的专利公布量超过了此前十年总和。
Germany has overtaken the United Kingdom as Europe's leading GenAI inventor location, with an 85 per cent CAGR. Canada and Switzerland also recorded triple-digit growth rates (109 per cent CAGR, and 124 per cent, retrospectively). Seven of the world's top 10 inventor locations published more GenAI patent families in the last two years than in the entire preceding decade.
这些数据凸显了知识产权在 GenAI 经济中的战略核心地位。监测专利数据有助于政策制定者与企业洞察创新加速领域、技术热点及竞争格局演变。
The findings underscore the growing strategic importance of intellectual property in the GenAI economy. For policymakers, businesses and IP professionals monitoring of patenting data provides valuable insight into where innovation is accelerating, which technologies are gaining traction and how competitive dynamics are evolving in one of the fastest-moving fields of innovation ever observed.
来源：WIPO 中国
