They do new stuff all the time. Ask your AI to draw a gerbil riding a unicycle around Pluto and you'd get an image that hasn't been there before. If by genuinely new you mean without any help from past culture, do humans do that?
For significant pushing the boundaries of knowledge stuff you maybe need different algorithms like AlphaGo move 37 or Alpha Fold protein folding. Though again how often do humans do that?
For significant pushing the boundaries of knowledge stuff you maybe need different algorithms like AlphaGo move 37 or Alpha Fold protein folding. Though again how often do humans do that?