Generative AI focuses on creating models that can generate new content like images, text, music and video by learning patterns in data. It captures distributions to generate outputs with similar characteristics unlike classification-focused techniques. Generative models are used for tasks like image synthesis, text generation, creative design, music composition and data augmentation. Non-generative AI focuses on classification and prediction using labeled data to learn relationships and make accurate predictions. The outputs differ as generative AI generates new content resembling training data while non-generative AI classifies inputs. Applications include image classification, spam detection and speech recognition for non-generative AI and image synthesis, text generation and drug discovery for generative AI.