According to GIMPS, this is the first time a prime number was not found by an ordinary PC, but rather a “‘cloud supercomputer’ spanning 17 countries” that utilized an Nvidia A100 GPU chip to make the initial diagnosis. The primary architect of this find is Luke Durant, who worked at Nvidia as a software engineer for 11 years
Well allow me to retort:
There isn’t a CPU on this planet that will digest this number in any meaningful way out to this decimal. Not as a whole at least.
That’s why this was clearly computed on a GPU. They’re good at that.
We also have news of the first stages of prime numbers being cracked on Quantum Computers with amazing efficiency. So whatever this number is will be useless soon.