I agree --- I mostly think it's interesting as one of the most concrete examples of what they claim to have actually done that I've been able to find.
In general, it's frustrating that, as far as I can tell, they don't seem to have made any of the code from the project open source. Widespread skepticism about their claims due to this is (IMO) justified.
(Edit: for folks interested, it seems like some of the code has found itself scattered around the Web ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19844088 )