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
Do you mean to say that this achievement had something to do with AI?
Looks like pure mathematics to me.
I think they’re comparing the huge amount of computing power used for both AI and finding primes.