[WhitneyLand]

No, this team will never come close to achieving this (1000x faster with 10000x less power).

They could accomplish great things, they could open the door to new techniques that may achieve this decades from now, but that's different.

Also, you said you could see several orders of magnitude improvement, even that is less than their claim.

Also you mention GPU vs CPU, which as far as I'm aware doesn't meet the standard either.

But seriously, while I'd agree any magnitude of breakthrough is possible, I also think it's unhealthy to encourage people to make extremely unlikely claims just to get a decent research grant.