Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Key findings and insights -- Introduction -- Generative AI - new systems with a long history -- Motivation of this report -- 1 Generative AI: The main concepts -- Background and historical origins -- Deep learning -- Discriminative versus generative tasks -- What GenAI models exist? -- What are GenAI modes? -- 2 Global patenting and research in GenAI -- Global development -- Top patent owners -- Key locations of inventors -- Key filing jurisdictions -- 3 Patent trends in GenAI models -- Global development -- Top patent owners -- Key locations of inventors -- 4 Patent trends in GenAI modes -- Global development -- Top patent owners -- Key locations of inventors -- Connection between GenAI models and GenAI modes -- 5 Patent trends in GenAI applications -- Global trends -- Top patent owners -- Key locations of inventors -- Connection between core models and applications -- Connection between modes and applications -- Further considerations -- Concerns about the use of GenAI -- Limitations and future of patent analysis in relation to GenAI -- Appendices -- A.1 Methodology for patent analysis -- A.2 Patent indicators -- A.3 Interdependence between models, modes and applications -- A.4 Patent searches -- A.5 Prompts -- A.6 Scientific publication query with The Lens -- A.7 Mining software and dataset mentions in the non-patent literature corpus -- A.8 Descriptions/example patents for GenAI applications -- References.