Is this basically an end-dump of the work that Sam and David did? Or a newly activated resurgence? Listening to Sam Adams talk about this and some of the ideas

Is this basically an end-dump of the work that Sam and David did? Or a newly activated resurgence? Listening to Sam Adams talk about this and some of the ideas they were playing with for massively swarmed processors was pretty cool 10 years ago. Definitely challenged a lot of the classic assumptions about computing dependability, and new paradigms/ideas for how to deal with hyper scale like this. I wonder if either Sam or David is actively working on these things anymore? Or have they retired now?