Abstract: Abstract: [Purpose/significance] The value of patents is an important manifestation of AI patents' competitiveness. A comparative analysis of the value of AI patents between China and the United States is of great significance for understanding the current situation and status of China's industrial development and determining the future strategic planning and development direction. [Method/process] This study uses Himmpat database as the retrieval system, uses AHP-entropy weight method to calculate the weight of each index, analyzes the development status of artificial intelligence in China and the United States through the comparison of patent value, and analyzes the development path of China's AI industry. [Results/conclusion] The results show that in recent years, both China and the United States are in a rapid development stage in the field of artificial intelligence, but the United States has certain advantages at all levels with the help of "first mover advantage"; China has developed rapidly in the application layer, but there are still some weaknesses in the research and development of high-value patents. In the face of the gap between the industrial development of the two countries, China should give full play to the "advantage of backwardness" and solve the "stranglehold" problem in accordance with the existing problems. While paying attention to the application of technology, China should adopt the development strategy of "paying equal attention to both inside and outside", encourage the research and development of related patents at the basic and technical levels, promote interdisciplinary cooperation in the research and development of new technologies, "fan out from point to area", give play to the "head goose effect", and through cooperation between the dominant subjects, form a "preponderant polymer" to ensure the development of China's AI industry along a correct and efficient path.