Previous HN discussion on this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10864801
I consider the earlier result is of much worse quality. (Saw it, but I was hardly impressed.)
"2. Dahl, R.: Automatic colorization. In: http://tinyclouds.org/colorize/. (2016)"
They even included it in their comparisons (Table 1; Figure 5).