🇨🇳 China tops the world in artificial intelligence publications, database analysis reveals. The country also leads in patent filings and the number of AI researchers. The analysis of the proprietary Dimensions database, released in July, finds that the number of AI-related research papers has grown from less than 8500 published in 2000 to more than 57,000 in 2024. In 2000, China-based scholars produced just 671 AI papers, but in 2024 their 23,695 AI-related publications topped the combined output of the United States (6378), the United Kingdom (2747), and the European Union (10,055).