Generative Artificial Intelligence (“GenAI”) is moving beyond chatbots and large language models (“LLMs”) into multimodal systems, reasoning models, agentic AI, semiconductor infrastructure, data centres, energy systems and sector-specific applications. WIPO’s recent analysis, “Beyond the Chatbot: What Patent Data Reveals About the Next Phase of GenAI,” captures this shift through global patent activity. [1] The numbers are striking: published GenAI patent families increased […]